From the Advancement Committee:
At our yearly meeting sessions last week, we announced our fundraising goal for the 2022 budget had been surpassed. IYM members raised $123,451.30 toward the $110,000 goal. Praise the Lord for the generous hearts He has given our monthly meetings and individual members. This is incredible news. THANK YOU!!!
During our IYM sessions we began raising funds toward our 2023 budget goal of $120,000. At the close of the sessions, we had raised gifts and pledges of $21,000 toward that goal. We are grateful for the support and care reflected in these generous acts. We are excited to see IYM in action as we go through this next year. Peace & Joy to all! --Damon Seacott
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The Indiana Yearly Meeting Bicentennial Sessions took place at Quaker Haven Camp from July 29-31, 2021. The Sessions were blessed with many moments of prayer, life, grace, beauty, and God's overwhelming love. A wonderful celebration was had in acknowledging 200 years of God's blessings and His working within the people of IYM. There were also many challenges as to what comes next and how the Body of Christ in IYM will continue to build upon the 'Goodly Heritage' that has been built as those who go before have followed Jesus. May all who call IYM home continue this heritage as we follow Jesus from here.
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Hemlock Friends gave away fruit slushes from a booth in their parking lot on each Wednesday evening in July. Many valuable connections were made with neighbors and nearly 80 slushes were given away – not counting refills and those devoured by the pastor. This month the church is making their parking lot available for a community garage sale to be held August 13 and 14.
Knightstown Friends will host a "Block Party," Saturday, August 28, 5-7 pm. It is a community-wide event with food and also music by Mike Haemmerle.
Mooreland Friends is again preparing for the Mooreland Free Fair Bean Tent, August 9-14. The menu is ham and beans, cornbread, whole hog sausage sandwiches, and homemade peach cobbler, plus drinks. They would like for you to join them for some great food.
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White's Residential and Family Services is excited to celebrate the official launch of their new Compass Rose Academy campus in Wabash, with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, August 27 at 10 pm.
The new campus is an intentionally designed, Christian, clinical, and academic environment with three homes, a staff housing complex, and “The Hub,” a multi-purpose building that contains academic classrooms, therapy spaces, fitness room, nurse’s clinic, and staff offices. Construction has begun on the second phase of the project, which will involve building three additional homes and an addition to the staff housing building, allowing for a total of 20 staff to live on the new campus. When all construction is complete, Compass Rose will have doubled its capacity from 24 to 48 students to meet the increasing need for our services. Future plans also include the addition of a barn and farm animals to enhance the holistic, therapeutic environment. RSVP for the Ceremony by either calling Tony Ray at 260-563-1158, ex 1346 or click here and scroll down the page to find the ribbon cutting event.
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Upcoming Events:
August 16 - Advancement Committee - Zoom; 4pm
August 24 - Committee Night @ Marion First Friends; 6:30pm
August 27 - Compass Rose Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
10am
August 31 - Program Committee @ IYM Office; 6:30pm
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IYM mourns the loss of Loren Lilly who pastored at Rural Friends from 1981-2012 and was former director of Kickapoo Friends Center.
A memorial service will be held at Rural Friends on Saturday, September 18, at 1 pm followed by a tractor parade to the cemetery in Spartanburg, Indiana. The lead tractor will be Loren's reconditioned 1941 Allis-Chalmers WC. Friends may call one hour prior to the memorial service. He is survived by three children: Deborah Lilly, Brian Lilly, and Michele Lilly. His wife passed away in 2011. Please keep this family in prayer.
Mary Lou Tharp, mother-in-law of South Marion pastor, John Petty, recently passed away following a long and somewhat difficult illness. Please remember John and his wife, Kim, in your prayers.
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Good Morning!
Summer Camp 2021 is a wrap! What a wonderful opportunity it was to come alongside fellow leaders to plan and provide a space for campers to rest, encounter Christ, and respond. Many of our 570+ campers made decisions to follow Jesus, to rededicate their lives to Jesus, and to be discipled in the ways of Jesus. We witnessed time and time again God breathing into our counselors and CITs as they answered the call to love campers well. At Junior High Camp, we had a counselor, who earlier in the week was experiencing spiritual warfare that was debilitating, running to catch up to a camper because of a prompting by the Holy Spirit that they responded to with obedience. This image of chasing after young people sticks with me because they were giving their all for their camper. They were willing to chase a young person's heart. Isn't that like Jesus that he so desires relationship with us that he runs after us?!
Quaker Haven is dedicated to providing a space for people to encounter Jesus freely! That freedom is not lost on us, and we thank God for overwhelming us this summer. Summer camp at Quaker Haven is only possible because of Jesus and the people of Indiana Yearly Meeting and Western Yearly Meeting. Thank you. Thank you for saturating the summer camp program in prayer year-round.
If you were a counselor, CIT, Campaw, Campma, or on staff, thank you for loving young people. If you or your meeting sponsored or prayed for campers this summer, thank you for loving young people. If you brought or sent a camper to be with us this summer, thank you for loving young people. The mission is not over--there is more work to be done as we raise up Christians who are becoming wholeheartedly in love with Jesus.
I encourage you to ponder and act on this question, "What can I do to be a part of raising up people as disciples of Jesus?" You have so much to offer and to bring because of Jesus. Please don't downplay what Jesus has put in you, but believe what is spoken of you as a child of God. As our camp program theme states, 'Now is the time' to put yourself out there for young people to latch onto. They are hungry for what is in you, and as we are all ministers of the Gospel, let us press on toward the goal of establishing God's kingdom here on Earth.
Thank you for the opportunity to lead, and I look forward to helping launch the next youth and camping program theme for 2021-2022, 'More Than You Know' coming from 2 Corinthians 12:9. People are drawn to Jesus because of what he offers. There is so much life in him, More Than You Know.
-Andrew Heald
IYM Youth and Camping Director
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