Yearly Meeting 2022: Opening Session - Faith, community, action

2 Jun 2022 | by Joseph Jones

‘If together we form a loving community, there will always be someone nearby.’

‘I think of our community like a group of trees weathering multiple storms. And how do trees survive? They connect. They reach out.' | Photo: The clerking table, courtesy BYM

Almost 500 Friends gathered for the Opening Session of Yearly Meeting (YM) 2022, the first to blend online and in-person participation. Almost 2,000 people had registered to attend (1,199 online, 735 in person, with sixty-two children and young people) and on Friday evening 220 gathered in The Light with around 270 on Zoom.

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