Welcome to our Yearly Meeting annual sessions page!
Yearly Meeting 2013
July 21-25
The Risen Christ: Our Identity and Hope
Please mark your calendar for the above dates, and check back here for more information as we get closer to the gathering. REGISTRATION is available at the bottom of this page. Our speaker for this year will be Richard Foster, and Becky Ankeny (superintendent) will give the keynote address on Sunday evening.
Speaker: Richard Foster
We are grateful to have Richard Foster as our speaker this year for our Annual Sessions. Richard is a Quaker and pastored at Newberg Friends Church for several years. Richard is the founder of Renovaré, and has authored or co-authored seven books including Celebration of Discipline, PRAYER: Finding the Heart’s True Home, Freedom of Simplicity, The Challenge of the Disciplined Life, Streams of Living Water, Life With God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation (with Kathryn A. Helmers), and Longing for God (with Gayle Beebe). He is also the lead editor of The Life with God Bible. Richard and his wife Carolynn live near Denver, Colorado.
For those with children attending Tilikum throughout the week, please register through the yearly meeting office by contacting us at office@nwfriends.org. If you are from Newberg Friends, 2nd Street Community Church, or North Valley Friends you need to register directly through your meeting. Please contact your staff to find out more about registration.
Online registration is OPEN: REGISTER NOW
Yearly Meeting Theme Song
We would love for our local meetings to try out this year’s Yearly Meeting theme song, Hope of the Nations. If you don’t know it you can listen to it on YouTube below. The music for the song can be downloaded as PDF files:
