328th Yearly Meeting of NCYM (Conservative)

Seventh Month (July) 9 - 13, 2024

Theme: Members One of Another

Come and connect with Friends from the region, stay in the dorms, attend business sessions (including the query responses from all of our meetings!), converse over meals together, enjoy Bible study, deep thirst-quenching worship, thoughtful speakers and many opportunities to share our experience of the Spirit. You can come on Wednesday afternoon and stay through Sunday noon, OR make your own schedule. There will also be a Zoom option. You choose what feeds you.

Friends need to know that our usual dining services will not be available for our annual sessions. A wonderful ad hoc food committee is working on menus for our meals and we will eat in the community center area! When registering, Friends will need to be clear about dietary restrictions/needs and clear about the number of meals you are committing to, in order for the committee to arrange for appropriate numbers and types of meals.

Children of all ages love the age-appropriate independence of living on campus and participating in their own program which includes visiting local sites for recreation and learning, Quaker-grounded religious activities, and lots of fun. Children and youth need to register for yearly meeting sessions, but they do not need to pay anything to attend. Yearly meeting covers all expenses for children and youth, including their dorm room and food. The children's program runs Wednesday afternoon through Sunday noon (with children spending nights with their families.)

YM in person at Guilford College with Zoom options for some sessions.
Schedule and program details below (subject to change as the Spirit directs).
Deadline for registration: June 9th 2025 for rooms, meals, and displays.

LINK to REGISTRATION
Other helpful stuff: YM2025 Information and Location Information (directions)

LINK to SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE and FULL SCHEDULE (coming soon)
LINK to ANNOUNCEMENTS (updates posted during sessions)
LINK to BUSINESS SESSIONS (agenda and advanced documents will be posted closer to gathering time)

Program Presenters for the 328th Yearly Meeting of NCYM (Conservative)

Keynote Speaker: Traci Hjelt Sullivan

Members One of Another: Being challenged by God’s expansive vision of an interdependent human family. Of course, discernment of the message continues, and Traci does not know exactly what she will be called to share.

Traci Hjelt Sullivan became a convinced Friend in early adulthood. Quaker community has been essential to her spiritual development. Early on, Meeting for Business was where she could most reliably experience the Living Spirit. Committee work has provided many lessons of listening, humility, and love. Traci has spent most of her professional life in service to the Religious Society of Friends and is currently the Executive Director of Right Sharing of World Resources. She is an experienced workshop leader, and this is her first opportunity to bring a lengthy prepared message to Friends. Traci moved to North Carolina a year ago to be an active grandparent and worships with Chapel Hill Friends Meeting. Her membership is currently held at Green Street Friends Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Bible Study Leader: Emma Condori Mamani

Emma Condori Mamani is a member of Santidad (Holiness)Friends Yearly Meeting in Bolivia. She was born in a Quaker family. She studied at the Friends School. She has served on various Quaker organizations. She is a language teacher and a graduate from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana with a Master of Divinity degree. She is one of the editors of Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices. She is the author of Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends. And she is one of the contributors of the book: The Quaker World. Also, as a pastor and a traveler minister she has traveled widely among Quakers in numerous countries. Currently she works as a director at the Friends International Bilingual Center, and she is an international member of the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative.

Emma will lead the Bible study with a focus that Christ brings us into the spiritual community in order to worship the Almighty and merciful God, to serve our neighbors, and to fellowship in truth and spirit.