Series Recap and Next Steps -- Growing Our Meetings
Saturday, May 1, 9:30 am to 12:45 pm
After last May's kick-off program, Caln Quarterly Meeting sponsored a 2020-2021 six-part series on aspects of outreach and new attender integration. The May 1 program will help Friends ascertain readiness to start or improve upon such initiatives.
Recap of what we learned from the 6-Part Series presented by Irene Oleksiw
Panel of meetings engaged in an outreach and/or new attender integration program
Breakout segment where participants discuss the status of their meetings and what could move them forward
Zoom lunch for networking and informal chats
Irene Oleksiw is a member of Downingtown Friends Meeting and clerks its Worship & Ministry Committee. She's part of the Caln Quarter team that created the 2020-21 Membership Development Series. At PYM, she serves on the Membership Development Granting Group.
A panel of Friends from meetings that are launching outreach and new attender integration initiatives will discuss their experiences.
This session follows six others held earlier this year: Digital Presence; All Together Now: Welcoming Families & Children; Friendly Fences; What's the Growth Formula? Facebook for Friends: Focused Out; and Meeting Vitality. Copies of slides and recordings are available upon request. Contact Irene Oleksiw, [email protected].
About this Series
Like so many events in 2020, Caln Quarterly Meeting's annual gathering was canceled for May of 2020. Rather than throwing in the towel, we pivoted and recycled last year's gathering theme, Growing Our Meetings, into a well-attended Zoom session that introduced how many of our Meetings are growing and what their practices for outreach are. The session was open to members and attenders from across several yearly meetings--far beyond Caln Quarter. The feedback from many of the 120 people who registered for that session on May 2, 2020, opened the way for us to continue with a six-part series that will provide more details on many of the topics and issues raised during the May Zoom session.