Quaker Resources: Advancement and Outreach

Overview

Quicklinks to the various sections below:

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 [email protected], 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 MeetingGeoffrey 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

General Introductions

Other Media

Introductions to Quaker Worship

Individual Meeting Pamphlets

Regions

Monthly Meetings