FGC and FUM dual-affiliated yearly meetings
Most North American yearly meetings are affiliated with at most one (if any) larger "umbrella group," but four North American yearly meetings -- Baltimore YM, Canadian YM, New England YM, and New York YM -- are affiliated with both Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting.
All of these meetings, however, are mostly unprogrammed with a minority of pastoral meetings/churches, and several of them are considering disaffiliation with FUM in large part due to the controversial FUM personnel policy.
Southeastern YM has historically been a fifth, but at their 2007 Sessions in early April, they moved to suspend their membership in FUM for two years, after which it would expire unless they change their minds.[1]
References
- ↑ As reported on Can you believe?, April 12, 2007.
External links
- Friends General Conference website
- Friends United Meeting website
- Yearly meeting websites:
- Kody Gabriel's "Open letter on Friends United Meeting", much discussed in the blogosphere (winter 2008/9)
- "Back from Africa with a broken heart" on the blog Growing Together in the Light, highlighting the divisions between the dual-affiliated yearly meetings and the FUM-only yearly meetings at the February 2007 FUM General Board Meeting in Kenya
- Friends United Meeting and the Dually Affiliated Yearly Meetings on the QuakerInfo.com website, providing news and opinion regarding the February 2007 FUM General Board Meeting and subsequent developments
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