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.sidebar-title-with-pretitle a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks plainlist" style="width:16em;border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background-color:#CCCC99;color;">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Quakers" title="Category:Quakers">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background-color:#CCCC99;color;"><span style="font-size:120%"><a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakerism</a></span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Fox.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="George Fox"><img alt="George Fox" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/George_Fox.jpg/120px-George_Fox.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/George_Fox.jpg/180px-George_Fox.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/George_Fox.jpg 2x" data-file-width="187" data-file-height="218" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption"><a href="/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox">George Fox</a>, founder of the Quakers</div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#CCCC99;color;;padding:0.2em;background-color:#CCCC99;color:white;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Quakers" title="List of Quakers">Notable individuals</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-left:0.2em; padding-right:0.2em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony">Susan B. Anthony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Barclay" title="Robert Barclay">Robert Barclay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Jenkins_Barnard" title="Hannah Jenkins Barnard">Hannah Jenkins Barnard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Benezet" title="Anthony Benezet">Anthony Benezet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding" title="Kenneth E. Boulding">Kenneth E. Boulding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Brinton" title="Howard Brinton">Howard Brinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cadbury" title="John Cadbury">John Cadbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carla_Denyer" title="Carla Denyer">Carla Denyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Coffin" title="Levi Coffin">Levi Coffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Conway_(philosopher)" title="Anne Conway (philosopher)">Anne Conway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Edmundson" title="William Edmundson">William Edmundson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Fell" title="Margaret Fell">Margaret Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox">George Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry" title="Elizabeth Fry">Elizabeth Fry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_John_Gurney" title="Joseph John Gurney">Joseph John Gurney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hicks" title="Edward Hicks">Edward Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Hicks" title="Elias Hicks">Elias Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hodgkin" title="Henry Hodgkin">Henry Hodgkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Jones_(writer)" title="Rufus Jones (writer)">Rufus Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Raymond_Kelly_(Quaker_mystic)" title="Thomas Raymond Kelly (Quaker mystic)">Thomas R. Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Lay" title="Benjamin Lay">Benjamin Lay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucretia_Mott" title="Lucretia Mott">Lucretia Mott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Nayler" title="James Nayler">James Nayler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_Palmer" title="Parker Palmer">Parker Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Paul" title="Alice Paul">Alice Paul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Penington_(Quaker)" title="Isaac Penington (Quaker)">Isaac Penington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Penn" title="William Penn">William Penn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pleasants" title="Robert Pleasants">Robert Pleasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayard_Rustin" title="Bayard Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(writer)" title="Jessamyn West (writer)">Jessamyn West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" title="John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wilbur_(Quaker_minister)" title="John Wilbur (Quaker minister)">John Wilbur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Woolman" title="John Woolman">John Woolman</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#CCCC99;color;;padding:0.2em;background-color:#CCCC99;color:white;color: var(--color-base)">Meetings and other groups</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-left:0.2em; padding-right:0.2em;"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monthly_meeting" title="Monthly meeting">Monthly Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee" title="American Friends Service Committee">American Friends Service Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Quaker_Action_Group" title="A Quaker Action Group">A Quaker Action Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britain_Yearly_Meeting" title="Britain Yearly Meeting">Britain Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Yearly_Meeting_of_Friends" title="Central Yearly Meeting of Friends">Central Yearly Meeting of Friends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Friends" title="Conservative Friends">Conservative Friends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Friends_Church_International" title="Evangelical Friends Church International">Evangelical Friends Church International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_Committee_on_National_Legislation" title="Friends Committee on National Legislation">Friends Committee on National Legislation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friends_World_Committee_for_Consultation" title="Friends World Committee for Consultation">Friends World Committee for Consultation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaker_Council_for_European_Affairs" title="Quaker Council for European Affairs">Quaker Council for European Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaker_Peace_and_Social_Witness" title="Quaker Peace and Social Witness">Quaker Peace and Social Witness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaker_United_Nations_Office" title="Quaker United Nations Office">Quaker United Nations Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quakerism_in_Sichuan" title="Quakerism in Sichuan">Szechwan Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Gathering_of_Young_Friends" title="World Gathering of Young Friends">World Gathering of Young Friends</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#CCCC99;color;;padding:0.2em;background-color:#CCCC99;color:white;color: var(--color-base)">Testimonies</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-left:0.2em; 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The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings. "Monthly" and "Yearly" refer to how often the body meets to make decisions. Monthly Meetings may be local congregations that hold regular Meetings for Worship, or may comprise a number of Worship Groups (and equivalent congregations with other designations). Depending on the Yearly Meeting organization, there may also be Quarterly Meetings, Half-Yearly Meetings, or Regional Meetings, where a number of local Monthly Meetings come together within a Yearly Meeting. </p><p>There are also parallel Yearly Meetings for young Quakers, Junior Yearly Meetings. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_description">General description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: General description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yearly Meeting gatherings are times for Friends from a wide geographical area to come together to worship and to seek God's guidance on decisions and on issues facing Friends in that region. Yearly Meetings publish guiding principles, organizational processes, and collected expressions of faith of the constituent Friends. These publications are called <i><a href="/wiki/Quaker_Faith_and_Practice" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker Faith and Practice">Faith and Practice</a></i>, and/or Books of Discipline. In Kenya, local meetings are called Village Meetings. Several village meetings form a monthly meeting. Several monthly meetings form a Quartely Meeting. Quartely meetings form a Yearly Meeting. Some yearly meetings in Kenya scrapped off Quartely Meetings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like many aspects of Quakerism, the organization into Yearly Meetings arose gradually. <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> Friends began to meet shortly after their beginning in a large group starting in the 1650s. The oldest Yearly Meeting in Britain, <a href="/wiki/Britain_Yearly_Meeting" title="Britain Yearly Meeting">Britain Yearly Meeting</a> (originally London Yearly Meeting), considers the year 1668 its official founding. <a href="/wiki/New_England_Yearly_Meeting" title="New England Yearly Meeting">New England Yearly Meeting</a> dates its founding from 1661. In the early days the business of the meeting was to receive answers to the Yearly Meeting's queries to the Quarterly Meetings, to read <a href="/wiki/Epistle_(Quaker)" title="Epistle (Quaker)">epistles</a> from traveling Friends, and to seek God's guidance on actions. They also proposed and planned the establishment of Quaker institutions, such as schools. </p><p>As the Religious Society of Friends grew and spread around the world, new Yearly Meetings were established. While often influenced by the activities of other Yearly Meetings, each of the Yearly Meetings is autonomous. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Procedure">Procedure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Procedure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A session of a Yearly Meeting, as with all Quaker business sessions, is considered a time of worship in dealing with matters of business. When a matter has been presented and explained, the Friends who are gathered wait in silence, listening to the leading of God's spirit within them. Those who feel led to do so share their insights, while the others listen. Eventually a "sense of the meeting" begins to emerge. The <a href="/wiki/Clerk_(Quaker)" title="Clerk (Quaker)">clerk</a> of the meeting (a type of facilitator) or the Recording Clerk (a person who writes the minutes) tries to formulate a minute that reflects the sense of the meeting. More input may follow. When it is clear that there is agreement, the sense of the meeting is recorded in the minute. Some Friends at the meeting may have reservations about the matter but choose to defer to the others. Friends believe and hope that the minute is God's will on the matter. However, nothing is considered a permanent and inviolable law among Friends and every matter is open to future change. </p><p>Before the close of a yearly meeting, Friends write an <a href="/wiki/Epistle_(Quaker)" title="Epistle (Quaker)">epistle</a> to communicate to other Friends world-wide. It is the custom to read out selections from epistles the Yearly Meeting has received from other Quaker bodies during yearly meeting sessions. </p><p>All Friends who are members of a constituent Meeting are members of the corresponding Yearly Meeting and may attend and participate on an equal basis—there is no hierarchy within the Religious Society of Friends. Many specific issues of concern to Quakers are dealt with by committees appointed by Yearly Meetings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names">Names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yearly Meetings are named for where they meet: a nation (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Yearly_Meeting" title="Canadian Yearly Meeting">Canadian Yearly Meeting</a>), a region within a nation (e.g., <a href="/wiki/New_England_Yearly_Meeting" title="New England Yearly Meeting">New England Yearly Meeting</a>), a state (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Yearly_Meeting" title="Indiana Yearly Meeting">Indiana Yearly Meeting</a>), or a large city that serves as a hub (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Yearly_Meeting" title="Philadelphia Yearly Meeting">Philadelphia Yearly Meeting</a>). The entire name of a Yearly Meeting usually includes the words "of the Religious Society of Friends" (e.g., <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yearly_Meeting" title="New York Yearly Meeting">New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends</a>) although some do not (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Northern_Yearly_Meeting" title="Northern Yearly Meeting">Northern Yearly Meeting</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Junior_Yearly_Meeting">Junior Yearly Meeting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Junior Yearly Meeting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Yearly_Meeting" title="Special:EditPage/Yearly Meeting">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Yearly+Meeting%22">"Yearly Meeting"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Yearly+Meeting%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Yearly+Meeting%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Yearly+Meeting%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Yearly+Meeting%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Yearly+Meeting%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2008</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Junior Yearly Meeting</b> (<b>JYM</b>) is a gathering for young <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a>. There are various JYM groups worldwide, which cover the same geographical boundaries as their respective Yearly Meeting. Most countries have one Yearly Meeting which corresponds to national borders, but in the United States there are Yearly Meetings on regional, state and city level, and this is reflected in their JYMs. The frequency and age range of gatherings varies between JYMs. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Britain</a>, JYM is a residential annual gathering, held at a different time to the <a href="/wiki/Britain_Yearly_Meeting" title="Britain Yearly Meeting">Britain Yearly Meeting</a> all-age gathering, of about 140 16- to 18-year-olds from around the country and a few Friends from European Yearly Meetings. Each <a href="/wiki/Monthly_meeting" title="Monthly meeting">Monthly meeting</a> within Britain Yearly Meeting nominates two young people to attend as representatives, and each of the Friends Schools in Britain (but not Northern Ireland) <a href="/wiki/List_of_Friends_Schools" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Friends Schools">Quaker School</a> also nominates two young people as representatives. The event is organised, clerked and facilitated by 16- to 18-year-olds in partnership with staff and adult volunteers (Over 20s). Participants reflect on the theme through a variety of activities, including main speaker sessions, base groups and small group sessions. There are also a wide range of topical workshops. </p><p>In the United States, JYM gatherings take place either alongside the annual Yearly Meeting gathering, as a separate annual gathering, as in Britain, or as more frequent gatherings. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Yearly_Meeting" title="Baltimore Yearly Meeting">Baltimore Yearly Meeting</a>, also has a JYM that composed of Young Friends (YF), who are 14–18, and Junior Young Friends (JYF) who are 11–13. BYM YFs are self-governed, choosing two clerks annually, and they conduct conferences throughout the year in addition to meeting at the BYM Annual Session. JYFs are not self-governing, but still conduct business meetings and hold conferences throughout the year. Most conferences are themed, and all include adult volunteers whose responsibilities usually consist of ensuring the YFs and JYFs safety rather than directing them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Larger_groups">Larger groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Larger groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many Yearly Meetings are members of larger groups. In the United States and a few other countries the three main groups of Friends are <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Friends_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Friends International">Evangelical Friends International</a>. A broader group that crosses theological, organizational, and national lines and encourages communication and cooperation of the different groups is <a href="/wiki/Friends_World_Committee_for_Consultation" title="Friends World Committee for Consultation">Friends World Committee for Consultation</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_yearly_meetings">List of yearly meetings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: List of yearly meetings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Burundi Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Central and Southern Africa Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Congo Yearly Meeting</li> <li>East Africa Yearly Meeting</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a> (see also <a href="/wiki/Quakers_in_Kenya" class="mw-redirect" title="Quakers in Kenya">Quakers in Kenya</a>) <ul><li>Bware Yearly Meeting, based in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Suna,_Kenya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suna, Kenya (page does not exist)">Suna</a></li> <li>Central Yearly Meeting, based in <a href="/wiki/Kakamega" title="Kakamega">Kakamega</a></li> <li>Chavakali Yearly Meeting</li> <li>East Africa Yearly Meeting (Kaimosi), based in <a href="/wiki/Tiriki" title="Tiriki">Tiriki</a></li> <li>East Africa Yearly Meeting (North), based in <a href="/wiki/Kitale" title="Kitale">Kitale</a></li> <li>Elgon East Yearly Meeting, based in Kitale</li> <li>Elgon Religious Society of Friends (West), based in <a href="/wiki/Lugulu" title="Lugulu">Lugulu</a> Via <a href="/wiki/Webuye" title="Webuye">Webuye</a></li> <li>Kakamega Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Lugari Yearly Meeting, based in <a href="/wiki/Turbo,_Kenya" title="Turbo, Kenya">Turbo</a></li> <li>Malava Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Nairobi Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Tuoli Yearly Meeting, based in <a href="/wiki/Kapsabet" title="Kapsabet">Kapsabet</a></li> <li>Vihiga Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Vokoli Yearly Meeting, based in Wodanga</li></ul></li> <li>Tanzania Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Uganda Yearly Meeting</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Americas">Americas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Americas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>See also <a href="/wiki/Quakers_in_Latin_America" title="Quakers in Latin America">Quakers in Latin America</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> <ul><li>Iglesia Evangélica Amigos Central (Central Evangelical Friends Church)</li> <li>Iglesia Evangélica Unión Boliviana "Amigos" (Bolivian Union Evangelical Friends Church)</li> <li>Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos de Bolivia (National Evangelical Friends Church of Bolivia)</li> <li>Iglesia Evangélica Misión Boliviana de Santidad Amigos (Bolivian Evangelical Mission Church of Holiness Friends)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Yearly_Meeting" title="Canadian Yearly Meeting">Canadian Yearly Meeting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> <ul><li>Cuba Yearly Meeting</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> <ul><li>Iglesia Evangélica Embajadores Amigos (Evangelical Ambassadors Friends Church)</li> <li>Iglesia Evangélica Nacional Amigos de Guatemala (National Evangelical Friends Church of Guatemala)</li> <li>Junta Anual Amigos de Santidad (Friends of Holiness Yearly Meeting)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a> <ul><li>Iglesias Evangélicas de los Amigos en El Salvador (Evangelical Friends Churches in El Salvador)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> <ul><li>Junta Annual Amigos de Santidad (Friends of Holiness Yearly Meeting)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> <ul><li>Jamaica Yearly Meeting</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> <ul><li>Asociación Religiosa de las Iglesias Evangélicas de los Amigos (Religious Association of the Evangelical Churches of Friends)</li> <li>Reunion General de los Amigos en México (General Meeting of Friends in Mexico)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> <ul><li>Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Los Amigos del Perú (National Evangelical Friends Church of Peru)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Friends" title="Conservative Friends">Conservative</a></b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iymc.org/">Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)</a>—Meetings for Worship in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ncymc.org/">North Carolina Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in North Carolina, Virginia Beach, VA, and Florida.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ohioyearlymeeting.org/">Ohio Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. This Meeting offers "affiliate membership" for individual Friends or small congregations worldwide isolated from other Conservative Meetings. Affiliates are as far away as Midlands in England and Athens, Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007183,_237_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007183,_237-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Friends_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Friends International">Evangelical Friends International</a></b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.evangelicalfriends.org/54">Alaska Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Alaska.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.efcer.org/">Evangelical Friends Church—Eastern Region</a>—Meetings for Worship in Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia.</li> <li>Evangelical Friends Church—Mid-America—Meetings for Worship in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.friendschurchsw.org/">Evangelical Friends Church—Southwest</a>—Arizona, California, and Nevada.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nwfriends.org/">Northwest Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington State.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rmym.org/">Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska.</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a></b> <ul><li>Alaska Friends Conference</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Yearly_Meeting" title="Baltimore Yearly Meeting">Baltimore Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ilym.org/">Illinois Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imym.org/">Intermountain Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://leym.org/">Lake Erie Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Yearly_Meeting" title="New England Yearly Meeting">New England Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Yearly_Meeting" title="New York Yearly Meeting">New York Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Yearly_Meeting" title="Northern Yearly Meeting">Northern Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Yearly_Meeting" title="Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting">Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Yearly_Meeting" title="Philadelphia Yearly Meeting">Philadelphia Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pffandpfym.org/">Piedmont Friends Fellowship</a> (PFF is a fellowship of monthly meetings and a yearly meeting)—Meetings for Worship in North Carolina, Virginia and Lyman, South Carolina.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scym.org/">South Central Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seym.org/">Southeastern Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sayma.org/">Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting Association</a>—Meetings for Worship in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.</li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Yearly_Meeting" title="Baltimore Yearly Meeting">Baltimore Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://greatplainsyearlymeeting.org/">Great Plains Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iym.org/">Indiana Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iaym.org/">Iowa Yearly Meeting (FUM)</a>—Meetings for Worship in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newassociationoffriends.org/">New Association of Friends</a>—Meetings for Worship in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Yearly_Meeting" title="New England Yearly Meeting">New England Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Yearly_Meeting" title="New York Yearly Meeting">New York Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ncym-fum.org/">North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM)</a>—Meetings for Worship in North Carolina and Virginia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Yearly_Meeting" title="Northern Yearly Meeting">Northern Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seym.org/">Southeastern Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. (Participates in both <a href="/wiki/Friends_General_Conference" title="Friends General Conference">Friends General Conference</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting" title="Friends United Meeting">Friends United Meeting</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.firstfriendswhittier.org/warsf.html">Western Association of the Religious Society of Friends (WARSF)</a>—Meeting for Worship in Whittier, CA.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.westernyearlymeeting.org/">Western Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Illinois and Indiana.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wilmingtonyearlymeeting.org/">Wilmington Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Ohio and Tennessee.</li></ul></li> <li><b>Independent</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Yearly_Meeting_of_Friends" title="Central Yearly Meeting of Friends">Central Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Arkansas, Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. According to Quaker historian Ben Pink Dandelion, "Central Yearly Meeting has little or no contact with the rest of the Quaker world. It broke away from <a href="/wiki/Friends_United_Meeting#History" title="Friends United Meeting">Five Years Meeting</a> in 1926 and represents a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_holiness_movement" title="Conservative holiness movement">Holiness</a> Yearly Meeting."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007222_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007222-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Missouri Valley Friends Conference</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npym.org/">North Pacific Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. (A <a href="/wiki/Beanite" class="mw-redirect" title="Beanite">Beanite</a> yearly meeting with informal ties to Friends General Conference, some Monthly Meetings are affiliated with FGC).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Yearly_Meeting" title="Pacific Yearly Meeting">Pacific Yearly Meeting</a>—Meetings for Worship in California, Hawaii, Mexico, and Guatemala. (A <a href="/wiki/Beanite" class="mw-redirect" title="Beanite">Beanite</a> yearly meeting with informal ties to Friends General Conference, some Monthly Meetings are affiliated with FGC).</li> <li>Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends—Meetings for Worship in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. It broke from Northwest Yearly Meeting in 2017.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asia">Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Cambodia Yearly Meeting</li> <li><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> (General Conference of Friends in India) <ul><li>Bhopal Yearly Meeting</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bundelkhand_Yearly_Meeting" title="Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting">Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting</a> (<i>Bundelkhand Masihi Mitr Samaj</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid-India_Yearly_Meeting" title="Mid-India Yearly Meeting">Mid-India Yearly Meeting</a></li></ul></li> <li>Indonesia Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Japan Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Middle East Yearly Meeting</li> <li>(Nepal) Evangelical Friends Church</li> <li>Philippine Evangelical Friends Church</li> <li>Taiwan Yearly Meeting</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia_and_Oceania">Australia and Oceania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Australia and Oceania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia_Yearly_Meeting" title="Australia Yearly Meeting">Australia Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Te_H%C4%81hi_T%C5%ABhauwiri" title="Te Hāhi Tūhauwiri">Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting (Te Hāhi Tūhauwiri)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Europe">Europe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>See also <a href="/wiki/Quakers_in_Europe" title="Quakers in Europe">Quakers in Europe</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Britain_Yearly_Meeting" title="Britain Yearly Meeting">Britain Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li>Denmark Yearly Meeting</li> <li>(Hungary) Evangelical Friends Church</li> <li>Finland Yearly Meeting</li> <li>France Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Germany Yearly Meeting (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">die Deutsche Jahresversammlung</i></span></i>, or <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">DJV</i></span></i>)—Quaker communities were established in 1677 and 1678 in what is now Germany at Emden and Friedrichstadt (extinct in 1727). English and American Friends organized a Quaker colony in Friedensthal (Peace Valley), which existed from 1792 until 1870 in what is now <a href="/wiki/Bad_Pyrmont" title="Bad Pyrmont">Bad Pyrmont</a>, a city in the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont, in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a> (Niedersachsen), Germany. Land was donated for a meeting house in January 1791 and the Quaker House (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">das Quäkerhaus</i></span></i>) was built. In 1933, it was reconstructed and relocated from its original site to Bombergallee 9, Bad Pyrmont. The German Annual Meeting (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Deutschen Jahresversammlung</i></span></i>) was organized in 1880. Relief work following World War I revitalized German Quakerism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007163_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007163-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German Yearly Meeting (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">die Deutsche Jahresversammlung</i></span></i> or <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">DJV</i></span></i>) resulted from the 1923 mergers of the German Annual Meeting with the Friends of Quakerism (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Freunde des Quäkertums</i></span></i>) and, in 1925, the Federation of German Friends (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">die Bund der deutschen Freunde</i></span></i>) and serves as an umbrella organization for the small liberal Quaker presence in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>. This body uses a translation of <a href="/wiki/Britain_Yearly_Meeting" title="Britain Yearly Meeting">Britain Yearly Meeting</a>'s current book of discipline <i>Quaker Faith and Practice: The book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain</i> entitled <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Quäker—Glaube und Wirken (das Handbuch der Quäker zur christlichen Lebensführung, übersetzt aus dem Englischen)</i></span></i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland_Yearly_Meeting" title="Ireland Yearly Meeting">Ireland Yearly Meeting</a></li> <li>Netherlands Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Norway Yearly Meeting</li> <li>Sweden Yearly Meeting</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_Yearly_Meeting" title="Switzerland Yearly Meeting">Switzerland Yearly Meeting</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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(2007)</a>, p. 222.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007163-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPink_Dandelion2007163_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPink_Dandelion2007">Pink Dandelion (2007)</a>, p. 163.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><i>Quäker—Glaube und Wirken (das Handbuch der Quäker zur christlichen Lebensführung, übersetzt aus dem Englischen</i> (in German). 2010. p. 468. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-929696-44-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-929696-44-8"><bdi>978-3-929696-44-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Qu%C3%A4ker%E2%80%94Glaube+und+Wirken+%28das+Handbuch+der+Qu%C3%A4ker+zur+christlichen+Lebensf%C3%BChrung%2C+%C3%BCbersetzt+aus+dem+Englischen&rft.pages=468&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-3-929696-44-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYearly+Meeting" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rgdf.de">"Deutsche Jahresversammlung"</a> [German Yearly Meeting]. <i>quaeker.org</i> (in German).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=quaeker.org&rft.atitle=Deutsche+Jahresversammlung&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rgdf.de&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYearly+Meeting" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPink_Dandelion2007" class="citation book cs1">Pink Dandelion, B. (2007). <i>An Introduction to Quakerism</i>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Introduction+to+Quakerism&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+UK&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.aulast=Pink+Dandelion&rft.aufirst=B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYearly+Meeting" class="Z3988"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yearly_Meeting&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quakerinfo.com/ym_int.shtml">Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meetings and Broader Bodies on the Internet</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/yearlymeetings">Yearly Meetings' Histories, Previous Names, Mergers, etc.</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Quakers73" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Quakers" title="Template:Quakers"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Quakers" title="Template talk:Quakers"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Quakers" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Quakers"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Quakers73" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Quakers" title="List of Quakers">Individuals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Allen_(English_Quaker)" title="William Allen (English Quaker)">William Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony">Susan B. Anthony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Barclay" title="Robert Barclay">Robert Barclay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Bean" title="Joel Bean">Joel Bean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Benezet" title="Anthony Benezet">Anthony Benezet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding" title="Kenneth E. Boulding">Kenneth E. Boulding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Brinton" title="Howard Brinton">Howard Brinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cadbury" title="John Cadbury">John Cadbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Coffin" title="Levi Coffin">Levi Coffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Conway_(philosopher)" title="Anne Conway (philosopher)">Anne Conway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susanna_Corder" title="Susanna Corder">Susanna Corder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dean" title="James Dean">James Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Evans_(Quaker_minister)" title="Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)">Joshua Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Fell" title="Margaret Fell">Margaret Fell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox">George Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry" title="Elizabeth Fry">Elizabeth Fry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_John_Gurney" title="Joseph John Gurney">Joseph John Gurney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Harrison" title="Ruth Harrison">Ruth Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Heath" title="Carl Heath">Carl Heath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hicks" title="Edward Hicks">Edward Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Hicks" title="Elias Hicks">Elias Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hodgkin" title="Henry Hodgkin">Henry Hodgkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Jones_(writer)" title="Rufus Jones (writer)">Rufus Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Raymond_Kelly_(Quaker_mystic)" title="Thomas Raymond Kelly (Quaker mystic)">Thomas R. Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephaniah_Kingsley" title="Zephaniah Kingsley">Zephaniah Kingsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Lay" title="Benjamin Lay">Benjamin Lay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Matthews" title="Dave Matthews">Dave Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucretia_Mott" title="Lucretia Mott">Lucretia Mott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Nayler" title="James Nayler">James Nayler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_Palmer" title="Parker Palmer">Parker Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Paul" title="Alice Paul">Alice Paul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Penn" title="William Penn">William Penn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pleasants" title="Robert Pleasants">Robert Pleasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betsy_Ross" title="Betsy Ross">Betsy Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayard_Rustin" title="Bayard Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Coffin_Starbuck" 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