Quaker writer Patty Levering says Quakerism is a listening spirituality. Listening is fundamental to our way of worship and of doing business. We come together not to be a group of individuals “doing our own things.” It is easier to be an individual on our own. We gather because there is something that happens in the group as we attune ourselves to something more than any of us as individuals. We move into a living stream of stillness—of listening and hearing—where we are connected and where we are heard, touched, taught, and moved. We may call that place different names. We may talk about what happens with different words. But listening together into that place of hearing is what matters.

Plan to Attend the 42nd Annual Quaker Michener Lecture

Listening To Hear:
Deepening Faith, Nurturing Community
by
Patty Levering

First Day, January 15, 2012
Orlando Friends Meeting House
316 E. Marks St., Orlando, FL

Arranged by Worship & Ministry Committee
Subsidized in part by: The Dwight and Ardis Michener Memorial Endowment Fund
Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Please mail two forms in Part 1 to: SEYM Youth, PO Box 510795, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951.

1. Part 1: Permission to Obtain a Background Check form through NexisLexis (GuideOne-SafeChurch-Shepherd's Watch)
   SEYM Youth Program Worker Reference form
2. Part 2: READ Child Abuse Prevention Manual
3. Part 3: Take Child Abuse Prevention on-line Training with SEYM Trainer
4. Part 4: You confirm having completed Part-2 and Part-3 please download: CAP Trainee's Affirmation and mail to:
   SEYM YOUTH, PO Box 510795, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951.
5. Trainer affirms Part-3
6. Part 5: SEYM Personnel Review Committee reviews Parts 1-4.