Albany Monthly Meeting

Dear Melanie-Claire [Mallison, clerk of Nurture Coordinating Committee] and Committee Members:

At Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business on April 9, 2006, the Friends of Albany Meeting approved sending a copy of the attached Minute to you in response to your mailing dated February 2, 2006. We found the Minutes and statements from other Meetings and especially from Junior Yearly Meeting to be interesting and inspiring and we will distribute copies and plan to have further discussion of the topic.

Rochester Friends Meeting

Minutes In Support of LGBTQ Friends and Same-gender Relationships Approved 3rd Month 13, 2005

Stepping aside from clerking, Sue Regen presented a minute passed by the Central Committee of Friends General Conference (FGC), describing the many contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Friends, as well as the positive experiences of Friends who have served with these individuals in conducting the business of FGC. (See text of FGC minute.)

Scarsdale Friends Meeting
of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

November 1, 2007

Dear Fellow NYYM Monthly Meetings and Worship Groups,

I am writing to you as clerk of Scarsdale Friends Meeting, Purchase Quarterly Meeting, to share with you a minute concerning NYYM’s affiliation with Friends United Meeting that our Meeting approved at our most recent Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business as well as some of the considerations that led us to this action.