Music making and singing will abound. Yoga, contra dancing, folk dancing, and other movement opportunities will occur throughout the Gathering. Friends creativity will be displayed, performed and celebrated again this year in the Lemonade Art Gallery. The Gathering Store will offer a unique collection of books, First Day School Materials, tapes, Gathering and FGC merchandise, and handcrafted consignment items.

Johnstown is located in Central Pennsylvania. The campus is situated on a plateau in the Allegheny Mountains, promising cool breezy nights and warm pleasant days.

Friends General Conference has financial support for Gathering attenders. Scholarships and workgrants are available to help make Gathering affordable. First time attenders scholarships match grants from monthly and yearly meetings. General scholarships assist families and individuals with the expenses of room/board and registration.  Workgrant opportunities include staffing theJunior Gathering program, assisting at the information desk, helping with routine tasks or taking on a specialized assignment. Additional information is available from Liz Perch, Conference Coordinator, at the address below. Friends are urged not to let cost issues keep them from considering attendance.

Detailed information about the Gathering will be available in the Advance Program. You may request an Advance Program by contacting Friends General Conference at 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 561-1700 or email (<mailto:[email protected] [email protected]).

More information about the Gathering and FGC is available on the World

The Gathering of Friends is a program of Friends General Conference, which provides resources to help members and attenders of constituent meetings discover how God's Spirit is leading us individually and corporately and to follow that leading.

Pendle Hill Midwest 
Completes Pilot Venture

Tears and laughter, gratitude and confession, deep sharing and soul-searching, and profound awareness of the Spirit speaking as "the voice within" has marked Pendle Hill Midwest's three-weekend study of "Peacemaking and the Life of the Spirit" at Evanston Friends Meetinghouse.

The Peacemaking course was the first offering of Pendle Hill Midwest, a joint venture between the Quaker center for study and contemplation in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and Evanston Friends Meeting.  Pendle Hill Midwest was launched just this year to make the excellent educational resources at Pendle Hill in Pennsylvania more accessible to Friends and others in our region. 

The first series concluded with "Forgiveness and Reconciliation" on the weekend of May 16-18.  Earlier, 23 participants experienced the January workshop on "Nonviolence in Personal and Political Life," and 19 joined in "Prayer and Peacemaking" the weekend of March 21-23.  They represented five monthly meetings in addition to Evanston's, and one church in Chicago. 

Daniel O. Snyder, Ph.D., an experienced pastoral counselor and full-time faculty member at Pendle Hill, created several thought-provoking "tension charts" to relate contrasting