Quaker Resources: Advancement and Outreach
Overview
Quicklinks to the various sections below:
- NYYM Advancement/Outreach Resources
- Advancement Committee (currently suspended)
- NYYM Outreach Working Group
- New Meetings Toolbox—Friends General Conference
- Books and pamphlets about Quaker outreach and advancement—QuakerBooks.org.
- Sample brochures and outreach materials:
Outreach Working Group
The NYYM Outreach Working Group is an ad hoc group of NYYM Friends who hold a concern for advancement and outreach in the yearly meeting.
Is your meeting ready for outreach? Download the Working Group's guide to descerning whether your meeting is ready to do more active outreach.
To learn more about their projects or to contact this group, visit the Outreach Working Group Page, or contact the yearly meeting office at office@nyym.org, or call 212-673-5750.
Books and Pamphlets about Advancement/Outreach
- Letting the Light Shine: A Quaker Guide to Using the Media, Simon Risley; $3.
- Outreach Idea Book: Suggestions for Attracting and Nurturing Newcomers and Enriching Quaker Meetings, Outreach Committee of PhYM; $18.
- Turnaround: Growing a Twenty-first Century Religious Society of Friends, Benjamin Lloyd; Pendle Hill Pamphlet #387; $6.50.
- Now We Are Quakers: The Experience and Views of New Members, Alastair Heron; $7.
- Welcome (poster); PyyM; $12.50.
- The Blooging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church through Blogs, Brian Bailey; $12.
- Being A Quaker: A Guide for Newcomers, Britain Yearly Meeting, Geoffrey Durham; $16.
- Come Worship with Friends, bumper sticker, FGC; $2.00.
- Coming into Friendship As A Gift: The Journey of a Young Adult Friend, (reaching YAFers), Christina Van Regenmorter; $8.00.
- Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting, Pendle Hill Pamphlet, Tom Gates; $6.50.
Sample Brochures and Outreach Materials
NYYM's Advancement Committee has gathered as many advancement/outreach pamphlets as it can find. These vary a lot in their quality and many could not be used in their current form. But they represent a wide variety of approaches and content that we hope you will find useful. We also hope you will share resources with us that we have not yet collected. Please contact the office if you have something to contribute; and thanks.
Introductions to Quakerism in General
Specifically for visitors and new attenders
- Advancement Basics, Part One: First-time Visitors & New Attenders, FGC Advancement & Outreach Committee
- Welcome New Commers (table top card)
- Welcoming Newcomers (one meeting’s guidelines)
- Education and Support of New Attenders, Lake Forest Meeting, Illinois YM
- To inquirers about the Religious Society of Friends, by Leonard S. Kenworthy
General Introductions
- Welcome New Comers (table top card)
- Welcoming Newcomers (one meeting’s guidelines)
- Education and Support of New Attenders, Lake Forest Meeting, Illinois YM
- Suggested Reading for New Attenders, from Carlisle Meeting
- Introducing Quakers, Pendle Hill Pamphlet by Gordon Browne
- Friendly Answers to Questions about American Quakers, FWCC
- The Minimum Quaker, by Edmond P. Hillpern
- On the Quaker Peace Testimony, from First Friends Meeting, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Using Quaker Practice, from New York Yearly Meeting
- Happy Valentine's Day, An outreach Valentine's Day card: "Let us see what love can do"
- An example of Quaker outreach, from a Friends Church in Oregon
- The Wider Quaker Fellowship, from FWCC
Other Media
- Starting a Film Series as a means of Quaker Outreach for your Monthly Meeting
- Media Tips
- Plain Press Release, from Purchase Meeting
Introductions to Quaker Worship
- Holy Expectancy, from The Friend
- An Introduction to Quaker Meeting for Worship in the Unprogrammed Tradition
- An Invitation to Worship, London YM
Individual Meeting Pamphlets
Regions
- Burlington
- There are Quakers in NYC
- Find Yourself...Come Home, from Salem Quarterly Meeting, New Jersey
- A Brief History of Quakerism and New York Yearly Meeting
Monthly Meetings