Recommendation from the Salem Quarter to the Permanent Board that Three Rivers Worship Group become a monthly meeting:

Report of the Called Meeting of Salem Quarter

Held over Zoom

Over 50 Friends attended the called meeting of the members and attenders of Salem Quarter on July 15, including 37 from every meeting of the nine meetings of the Quarter.  Visitors included those who self identified as worshippers at Three Rivers worship group, the presiding clerk of NEYM and the clerk of Ministry and Counsel.

Friends were asked to make a recommendation to the Permanent Board as to whether Three Rivers should become a monthly meeting, as had been recommended by Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting, which holds care of Three Rivers.  After a review of the process, questions and discussion, those present were clear to approve the request from Three Rivers, with endorsement by Fresh Pond, to become a monthly meeting in Salem Quarter.

Four Friends asked to be recorded as stepping aside, expressing their unreadiness to approve the recommendation, feeling the process was unnecessarily hasty.

This decision will now move to the Permanent Board, since Salem Quarter is currently on sabbath, and the Board has care of the business of the Quarter, as requested by the Quarter and approved by the Board and at Sessions in 2022.

Respectfully submitted,

Susan Davies
Clerk of the Day

Leslie Manning
Convenor and Reporter

I urge Friends to review the 1985 Faith and Practice about the establishment of new meetings and also this information from the Faith and Practice Revision Committee:https://neym.org/faith-and-practice/appendices/establishing-monthly-meeting-3.