{"id":5553,"date":"2023-02-03T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:10:41","slug":"neym-living-faith-gathering-april-1-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=5553","title":{"rendered":"NEYM Living Faith Gathering, April 1 in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are excited to announce a next chapter in the ongoing experiment of daylong opportunities for spiritual nurture and intergenerational relationship, what we have called &#8220;Living Faith.&#8221;&nbsp;On&nbsp;<strong>April 1, 2023<\/strong>, after a four-year absence, we are looking forward to greeting Friends again&nbsp;<strong>in&nbsp;Portland, Maine.<\/strong>&nbsp;More details and registration info is coming soon. In the meantime,&nbsp;<strong>please mark your calendars<\/strong>!<br><br><em>A refresher on Living Faith:<\/em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;Living Faith gathering is an opportunity for Friends new and old (and the Quaker-curious) to get to know one another, hold multigenerational worship together, participate in interactive workshops, eat tasty food, share the different ways we experience and&nbsp;live&nbsp;our&nbsp;faith, and build community. Age-appropriate youth programming and childcare will be available, in addition to some parts of Living Faith programming being intergenerational, like worship. More about a teen-specific offering below.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workshops sought for Living Faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now seeking workshop proposals for the&nbsp;April 1st&nbsp;Living Faith gathering in Portland, ME. Our 90-minute workshops provide an opportunity for adult and teen Friends to explore their Quaker faith, connect around an area of interest, and make meaningful connections through activities, conversations, or worship. Do you have a workshop idea? Experienced and emerging facilitators alike are invited to submit a workshop proposal by&nbsp;February 5th.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/neym.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9d926a263c32aba63d418859d&amp;id=d7ebb2916c&amp;e=f48044f94b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Details here.<\/u><\/a><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living Faith teen retreat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New this year is a weekend retreat for teens built around participating in Living Faith together. Youth age 13-18 are invited to arrive on&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;evening, sleep over on site on&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;and&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;nights, and participate alongside adults and families at Living Faith on&nbsp;Saturday. There will be time on&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;and&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;nights for teens to connect with one another, share what the experience was like for them, and have fun with their peers, with support from a few adult staffers.&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:maggie@neym.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Contact Maggie Fiori<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;(Teen Ministries Coordinator) for more info.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce a next chapter in the ongoing experiment of daylong opportunities for spiritual nurture and intergenerational relationship, what we have called &#8220;Living Faith.&#8221;&nbsp;On&nbsp;April 1, 2023, after a four-year absence, we are looking forward to greeting Friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=5553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-events","category-new-england-yearly-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-1rz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}