Calls to Annual Sessions

Intermountain Yearly Meeting Annual Gathering, June 17 to 21, 2026 at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.

Dear Friends,

I invite you to the 52nd Annual Session of Intermountain Yearly Meeting of Friends held in hybrid at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado from June 17 to 21, 2025. We will be high on a mesa with incredible views of the La Plata Mountains.

Our theme this year is Connecting in Joy Across All Ages. Our focus is to be inclusive of and celebratory of all ages. We will have three plenaries. The first, focusing on play, perhaps led by our Junior Young Friends. The second, will be a panel with invited young adult Friends from Minneapolis and two of our own young adults. The third is worship with a query. We want to both experience the joy of being together and explore the pain of living in our current moment.

Our evening programs are all intergenerational. Wednesday evening, we have our welcome. Singing, dancing and creativity will be on the other evenings.

Our program will also include worship sharing, interest groups, and Friendly Circles. For more details, please go to IMYM.org. Registration is scheduled to open in mid-March. Please join us.

In the Spirit,

Bruce Thron-Weber

Presiding Clerk

North Pacific Yearly Meeting Annual Gathering, July 22 to 26, 2026 at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

To Friends of North Pacific Yearly Meeting and to Friends Everywhere.

NPYM’s Annual Session Theme in 2026 will be:

Welcoming Soul and Spirit

Spirit desperately needs the contributions of each one of us even more right now. In our many different places, we are called to be instruments of peace, love, justice, and compassion. At Annual Sessions this July, let us come together and find how to welcome Soul and Spirit. Parker Palmer compared the soul to a shy wild animal, which only makes an appearance when it is safe to do so, hiding, watching, and waiting until then. Let us explore ways to invite our souls to make themselves known among us, so that we can become powerful vessels for bringing the ways of Spirit into the world that is crying in pain.

Marcelle Martin will serve as our Friend in Residence, to share wisdom she has garnered during her life and travels among Friends. She will invite us to try out ways we can support each other in making space to hear and express our souls more boldly and authentically, receive divine guidance, and become strengthened to take our parts in the world, as members of a loving community. Welcome Marcelle and her husband, Terry, to their first time in the Pacific Northwest, this magical and mystical place of rivers, trees, mountains, and creatures.

Come to North Pacific Yearly Meetings Annual Session July 22nd to the 26th in Olympia Washington on the campus of Evergreen State College. We are planning an Annual Session that we hope will enliven your spirit and remind you of our bonds of kinship, and our duty to ourselves and the world we inhabit.

Euclid Bautista

Clerk, North Pacific Yearly Meeting

Pacific Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions, July 17 to 21, 2026 at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Dear Friends,

The past year has thrown a lot at us—social and political violence, moral and value-based challenges, use and abuse of natural, financial and personal resources—to name a very few. When our outward social and political structures fail, we need to turn to our spiritual communities and inward light, seed, oneness--the source of our solace and strength.

Many of our monthly meetings are experiencing shrinking pains or growing pains. Many of our committees—including nominating committees- and limping along with not enough members to do their work. Our financial resources don’t match the financial costs we have in conducting our business (which is a form of worship), and finally, how do we share news, important information, request for help, or successful ideas with each other?

So, I suggest experimenting. We’ve been talking at annual sessions for at least six years about the challenges we face. Let’s try some new things, move off center, take some risks. But not without acknowledging that experimentation is a process.

George Fox found his faith “experimentally.” The faith of Friends is experiential, individual, and internal. We each experience it differently. What is its core? Is there a thing without which we are no longer Friends: testimonies, Jesus, “that of God” within, social action, or worship?

Join us in experimenting at California State University, Monterey Bay this July. Registration opens in May.

Love and blessings,

Robin DuRant,

Clerk, Pacific Yearly Meeting