The Outreach & Visitation Committee seeks ways to provide and stimulate personal visitation and other forms of communication throughout the yearly meeting, with a particular concern for preparative meetings, worship groups, and Friends isolated from any organized group. The work of the committee is meant to coordinate with and support monthly meetings, quarterly meetings, and the Ministry & Counsel Committee in their respective responsibilities in this area.
The “Thoughts for Visitors and Visited” was published to give guidelines for both formal and informal visits among Friends.
Thoughts for Visitors and Visited
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The "Knitting Us Together Visitation Program" (KUT) was developed in 2016 to provide formal visits on behalf of NPYM.
Within the KUT Program, we are seeking NPYM Friends who would like to travel and visit Friends within the dispersed and diverse NPYM region. Travel – with an elder – to share your abilities, or topics of concern, to meetings visited. Do you have a skill, interest, or leading to share? Or are you called instead to be an accompanying elder? Visitors’ and elders’ interests in serving as a visitor or as an elder should come from a spiritual base, a leading, and with the support of their meeting or Friends who know them. Apply!
A description of the "Knitting Us Together Visitation Program", application forms, and information about the roles of the traveling Friend and Elder follow:
Description of the Knitting Us Together Program
On Why We Need Traveling Elders.pdf