General Description
Yearly Meetings come days for Friends from either the wide geographical locality to close to worship, to discuss their concerns, & to search God's counsel in issues facing Friends in this vicinity. Yearly Meetings besides oversee a organic meetings, & publish a guiding information of the Friends therein geographical metropolitan area. These guiding information come typically contained inside the book known as Faith & Practice or even Book of Discipline.

Origin
Such as numbers of aspects of Quakerism a conception of the Yearly Meeting arose step by step. English Friends began to meet as a large class action starting in the 1650s. But, a oldest Yearly Meeting around Britain, Britain Yearly Meeting (originally a London Yearly Meting), considers the month 1668 its official founding. Future England Yearly Meeting dates its founding from either 1661. In a early times the business of the meeting was to receive answers to the Yearly Meeting's inquiry to the Quarterly Meetings, to scroll through epistles from either road Friends, & to discuss todays cases & issues. It likewise proposed & planned a establishment of Quaker institutions, like schools.

When a Religious Society of Friends grew & spread about the world, recently Yearly Meetings were established. Piece typically influenced per activities of more Yearly Meetings, apiece of the Yearly Meetings is autonomous.

Procedure

The Yearly Meeting, whilst by using 100% Quaker meetings, is considered the instance of worship & contemplation, potentially when treating by having matters of business. A Friends world health organization come gathered hold off within silence, listening to the leading of God's spirit inside the children. Victims world health organization sense led to clean thus part their insights, when a others listen. Ideally the member requires period to listen to the Friend world health organization spoke antecedently, prior even to sharing his or her thoughts. Finally the 'feel of the meeting' begins to emerge. A clerk of the meeting—a nature and severity of facilitator—attempts to formulate a microscopic that reflects the feel of the meeting, then other discussion follows. Whenever these are clear that there exists agreement, a feel of the meeting is recorded in the microscopic developed per clerk. A select few Friends at a meeting can keep close at hand reservations just about a matter however buy to defer to the others. Friends guess & hope that a microscopic is God's might on the matter. But, nothing is considered the lasting & inviolable law among Friends & each matter is open to new changes.

Prior to the close of a every year meeting, Friends might agree an epistle that will summarise a workings of the gathering. These epistles come published & scan retired at more annually meetings.

Completely Friends world health organizatiin come members of the organic Meeting come members of the corresponding Yearly Meeting & can attend & participate on an equal basis—no hierarchy inside a Religious Society of Friends. Numbers of specific issues of concern to Quakers come dealt by owning by committees selected by Yearly Meetings.

Names
Yearly Meetings come known as for the united states (e. g., Canadian Yearly Meeting), the area inside a united states (e. g., New England Yearly Meeting), a state (e. g. Illinois Yearly Meeting), or the big city that serves as a hub (e. g., Philadelphia Yearly Meeting). a entire title of a Yearly Meeting unremarkably includes the words 'of the Religious Society of Friends' (e. g., New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends) although some don't (e.g. Evangelical Friends Church-Mid America Yearly Meeting).

Larger Groups
Numerous Yearly Meetings come a share of big groups. In a United States & two or deuce-ace more countries a three independent groups of Friends come the Friends General Conference, the Friends United Meeting, and Evangelical Friends International. The wide class action that crosses theological, organisational, & national lines is the Friends World Committee for Consultation.

List of Yearly Meetings

Europe
Britain Yearly Meeting [http://www.quaker.org.uk/ BYM Website] Denmark Annually Meeting [http://www.kvaekerne.dk/ Quakers in Denmark] Hungary--Evangelical Friends Church Finland Every year Meeting [http://www.netlife.fi/users/antti.pelkola/kveekarit/ Quakers in Finland] France Every year Meeting [http://quaker.chez.tiscali.fr/ Quakers in France] German Each year Meeting [http://www.quaeker.org/ Deutsche Jahresversammlungen Website] Ireland Yearly Meeting [http://www.quakers-in-ireland.org/ IYM Website] Netherlands Annually Meeting [http://www.vriendenkring.info/ Quakers in the Netherlands] Norway Each year Meeting [http://www.kveker.org/ Quakers in Norway] Sweden Annually Meeting [http://www.kvakare.se/ Quakers in Sweden] Switzerland Every year Meeting

Africa
Burundi Every year Meeting Central & Southern Africa Annually Meeting Congo Each year Meeting East Africa Every year Meeting Nairobi Yearly Meeting (for others around Kenya, look at Quakers in Kenya) Tanzania Each year Meeting Uganda Every year Meeting

Asia
Cambodia Annually Meeting India--General Conference of Friends Indonesia Every year Meeting Japan Every year Meeting [http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Quakerism_in_Japan.htm Quakers in Japan] Middle East Annually Meeting Nepal--Evangelical Friends Church Philippine Evangelical Friends Church Taiwan Every year Meeting

Americas
Canada American Each year Meeting [http://www.quaker.ca/ CYM Website] United States Beanite Pacific Each year Meeting [http://www.quaker.org/pacific-ym/ Pacific YM Website] Intermountain Annually Meeting [http://imym.org/ IMYM Website] North Pacific Every year Meeting [http://www.npym.org/ NPYM Website] Conservative Iowa Every year Meeting (Conservativist) [http://www.quakernet.org/ IYMC Website] North Carolina Every year Meeting (Conservativist) [http://ncymc.org/ NCYMC Website] Ohio Each year Meeting [http://www.ohioyearlymeeting.org/ OYM Website] Evangelical Friends International [http://www.evangelical-friends.org/north-america/index.html EFI North America Website] Alaska Every year Meeting [http://www.evangelical-friends.org/north-america/regions/alaska/ AYM Website] Evangelical Friends Church—Eastern Region [http://www.efcer.org/ EFCER Website] Evangelical Friends Church—Mid-America [http://www.maym.org/ EFCMA Website] Evangelical Friends Church—Southwest [http://www.efcsw.org/ EFCSW] Northwest Annually Meeting [http://www.nwfriends.org/ NWYM Website] Rocky Mountain Every year Meeting [http://www.users.qwest.net/~lfpchild/ RMYM Website] Friends General Conference Alaska Friends Conference [http://AlaskaFriends.org/ AFC Website] Illinois Annually Meeting [http://iym.quaker.org/ IYM Website] Lake Erie Annually Meeting [http://www.quaker.org/leym/ LEYM Website] Ohio Vale Annually Meeting [http://www.quaker.org/ovym OVYM Website] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting [http://www.pym.org/ PYM Website] Piedmont Friends Fellowship [http://www.rtpnet.org/friends/PFF.htm PFF Website] South Central Annually Meeting [http://www.scym.org/ SCYM Website] Southern Appalachian Annually Meeting [http://www.saym.org/ SAYM Website] Friends General Conference & Friends United Meeting Baltimore Annually Meeting [http://www.bym-rsf.org/ BYM Website] New England Yearly Meeting [http://www.neym.org/ NEYM Website] New York Annually Meeting [http://www.nyym.org/ NYYM Website] Northern Each year Meeting [http://www.northernyearlymeeting.org/ NYM Website] Southeastern Annually Meeting [http://www.seym.org/ SEYM Website] Friends United Meeting Great Plains Each year Meeting Indiana Each year Meeting [http://www.iym.org/ IYM Website] Iowa Every year Meeting (FUM) [http://www.iaym.org/ IAYM Website] North Carolina Every year Meeting (FUM) [http://www.ncym-fum.org/ NCYM Website] Western Association [http://www.firstfriendswhittier.org/warsf.html WARSF Website] Western Each year Meeting [http://www.westernym.org/ WYM Website] Wilmington Annually Meeting [http://www.geocities.com/wilmingtonquaker/ WYM Website] Others Missouri Vale Friends Conference Mexico Evangelical Friends Churches General Meeting of Friends Caribbean Cuba Every year Meeting Jamaica Each year Meeting Central America El Salvador — Evangelistic Friends Churches inside El Salvador Guatemala — Evangelical Ambassadors Friends Church Guatemala Sanctity Friends Annually Meeting Guatemala — National Evangelical Friends Church of Guatemala Honduras Each year Meeting South America Bolivia Central Every year Meeting Bolivia National Evangelical Friends Church [http://www.quaker.org/christonet/ INELA Website] Bolivian Evangelical Mission Friends Church of Holiness Bolivian Evangelical Union Friends Church on the Rock Peru National Evangelical Friends Church

Australia and Oceania
Australia Every year Meeting [http://www.quakers.org.au/ Quakers in Australia] Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting (Te Hahi Tuhauwiri)