IYM Communicator

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February 17, 2021

Wabash Friends has called Brock Sizelove to be their Youth Pastor. He started this past Sunday, February 14th!

Amboy Friends continues to serve nearly 20 households each time they serve through their food bank. Given the pandemic, they are currently serving in a ‘drive-thru’ process. They are missing the ‘being together’, aspect that comes with their monthly hot meal service, but they continue to be blessed to be able to be of service to the Amboy community.

Winter Sneak: 110 Campers made the snowy trek to Quaker Haven for the annual Winter Sneak weekend to hear about Jesus’ love and desire for relationship with us, how intense his passion for us burns, and how every moment of life is precious. Even in the midst of COVID-19, our campers so desire to be together that they will diligently wear their masks and patiently honor the precautions put into place so that we can continue to have camp. Thank you to Tabitha Lumpkin (Farmland Friends) for bringing such wonderful news to our young people, and thank you to Hannah Doke (Russiaville Friends) and Logan Shutters (Dewart Lake Friends) for setting the atmosphere in musical worship. Ross Smedley (Mooreland Friends) and Ashton Dalzell (Lynn Friends & QHC) directed the weekend and they rocked every bit of it! We took a moment to thank Brock Sizelove for his loving service at Quaker Haven. His presence will be missed in that role, and we are excited to see him in a cabin this summer as a counselor!

We are suspending the video offerings of the IYM Curriculum as most Sunday School classes are meeting. All of the videos we have done will be archived on the IYM.org website.

The new quarter of the IYM Curriculum is printed and ready. Email iyminfo@iym.org or call the IYM office to make your order!

Danville Friends has set March 6 for their Day of Prayer for their church. They begin with a prayer breakfast and then have people praying throughout the day.

From the Christian Service Committee: Please join us the next several Wednesdays at 6pm for some important sessions --

Feb 17 - Anxiety/Depression - Hillary Vaught and Faith Spaulding

Feb 24 - Support for extended families during a pandemic - Caroline Polland and Amy Terrell

March 3 - Loneliness - Amy Yoder and Liz Bolinger

Click HERE for the Zoom link and further information on the February 17 Webinar.

We missed getting the first webinar recorded, but we have video for the February 10th. Click HERE and use this code (V2&jwFGv) to access the Webinar on caring for kids during the pandemic.

The Advancement Committee is working on a packet of materials leading up to the April 25 IYM Sunday. This packet will be available soon. Please consider setting aside that Sunday or another one to highlight how God is working in IYM. If the Advancement Committee can answer questions, meet with folks, bake you cookies -- just let us know. We love sharing what's happening around Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. The following are current IYM's fundraising totals for the 2022 budget:

$ 36,827.10 Cash Already Received

8,100.00 Pledges still to be paid

$ 44,927.10

THANK YOU for your support and encouragement in accomplishing our task.

Kaleo Academy is recruiting students and mentors for this year's program. Kaleo is a leadership training for high school students from an evangelical Friends context. Click HERE for the latest Kaleo Academy newsletter.

The Indiana Yearly Meeting Bicentennial History, Directory, and Scrapbook will be released this summer and includes more than 250 pages of information with hundreds of photographs. It will be hardbound and printed in color. In order to avoid using yearly meeting monies to fund its printing, the Bicentennial Committee is seeking at least fifty sponsors to cover the cost of printing. Sponsorships are $100. If you are willing to sponsor in your own name, in the name of your local meeting, or in honor or memory of an IYM Friend, click HERE for a downloadable form to complete and return to the IYM office (iyminfo@iym.org).

More from the Bicentennial Committee: As Indiana Yearly Meeting prepares to celebrate our 200^th anniversary, the IYM Bi-Centennial Committee would like to encourage all local meetings to prepare a tri-fold display about their meeting to be set up at IYM sessions this year at Quaker Haven, July 29 – 31. This can include anything of interest you would like to highlight regarding your meeting such as pictures, historical facts, unusual tidbits regarding the meeting house, and noteworthy individuals from the meetings. (Actually, all God’s children are noteworthy). These displays will be visible throughout the Sessions.

Committee Day will happen virtually via Zoom on March 6. More information, including the Zoom information, will be made available soon.

Upcoming Events:

February 17: IYM/Friends Counseling Webinar; 6pm

February 18: Pastor Gathering, 10am, Zoom

February 24: IYM/Friends Counseling Webinar; 6pm

March 6: Committee Day, 9:30am and 1:30pm, Zoom

March 8: Executive Committee, 6:30pm, Zoom

Visit our Website at iym.org

Monthly Pastor Gatherings: The topic

for the February 18 Pastor Gathering

will be Understanding Uncharted Territory.

All pastors are invited to join on Zoom at 10am on Thursday, February 18. Click HERE for the Zoom link.

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Good Morning!

A group of IYM folks who attended the International Friends Multiplication Conference this past November met this past week on Zoom. Here are a few points I pulled from that gathering:

· The Church, in general, is in a precarious position as far as influence in our culture

. There is a general concern surrounding how we connect with and ‘hand over keys’ to younger people when it comes to church leadership

· The Multiplication Conference opened some eyes and ears as to how we create multiplying entities (disciple makers who make disciple makers, church plants that plant churches, etc.)

· There is already some ‘multiplying’ work happening in IYM

· COVID has taught us a lot about digital connection, and we may be able to use that knowledge into post-COVID Church

· There is synergy amongst some people within IYM to see new works hit the ground and flourish.

Yes, this is a small(ish) sample of the entirety of IYM. AND…what would it hurt for all of us to pray and perhaps even fast and ask God for wisdom in what we may need to do in ‘such a time as this’ --- following the leading of the Holy Spirit into new and different territories?

In our new relationship with EFM, we are being encouraged to prayerfully think about new Disciple-multiplying, missionary works in un-reached parts of the world. Could we, in that same vein, be encouraged to prayerfully explore how God might be calling us to multiply Disciples of Jesus Christ here as well? In that prayer and fasting, we may have our eyes opened to other ways this is already happening in IYM. What a wonderful thing for us to come together and celebrate! We may also be led to take steps towards something new.

With this being said, I would like to invite all of us into a prayer/fasting campaign beginning now and leading to the April 25 IYM Sunday. Would you pray, intentionally, for God to show each of us His desires for us as a body of Christ? Would you pray that we would follow His leading when it comes to specifics like Multiplication and Mission? Throughout this time, you will see promptings in IYM communications guiding these prayers. May Christ be lifted up in our midst as we pray together!

--Pat Byers

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