Answering the Call

2011 Annual Report A Call to Celebrate “It’s about being involved in an activity that brings the Quaker faith to a broader audience. That feels like a calling to my deep center.” — Quaker Quest volunteer

photograph by Colby Abazs Dear Friends, We have a lot to celebrate at FGC. While we are not immune to the ongoing financial struggles plaguing so many nonprofits, we are blessed with wonderful staff, dedicated volunteers, and a vision for a vital Religious Society of Friends. And we are making a difference, both in the lives of individual Friends and in the journeys of Quaker meetings. During the past five years, FGC’sStoking the Spiritual Fire of Quakerism campaign raised more than $6.5 million from Friends, meetings, and foundations to expand our ministries and provide innovative events, conference, and programming for Friends. Now that the campaign has run its course, we are making new decisions about how best to answer Friends’ needs in the next few years. This year’s theme, Answering the Call, reflects a strong undercurrent of activity within Friends General Conference. In myriad ways, we have been — and remain — engaged in a deep discernment process on the ways in which we will answer God’s call to serve. What is the Spirit calling us to do? What are our affiliated meetings asking from us? Who among our Religious Society will answer our call to service? FGC three years hence may look very different from the FGC of three years ago. However, our deep commitment to the spiritual vitality of our meetings and our Religious Society will always remain the same.

In the Light,

Barry Crossno Sue Regen General Secretary Presiding Clerk A Call to Ministry “Many people discover Quakers through reading about us. The FGC Bookstore is a trusted and reliable source of curricula, history, religious thought, children’s books, and fiction. I love it!” — Survey response, Fall 2011

photograph by Joanne Clapp Fullagar Ministry to Friends is at the heart of FGC’s work. Over the past two decades, FGC’s ministries multiplied and flourished as specialized committees sprang up to meet discrete needs. In 2010, we consolidated the governance of those ministries, melding six separate program committees into the Committee for Nurturing Ministries. CNM, and its three vibrant subcommittees, care collaboratively for many of FGC’s vital ministries, including Ministry on Racism, Quaker Quest, Youth Ministries, Couple Enrichment, Faith & Play/Godly Play, and Traveling Ministries. 2011 marks the first full year of this consolidated structure. We embrace a religious society that recognizes the interconnectedness of our religious concerns. We embrace a sometimes complex but deeply enriching shared journey of discovery and faithfulness. Highlights of CNM’s first year included: ❍ Publication of Build It! A Toolkit for Building Intergenerational Spiritual Community. Years in the making, this how-to manual sold out its first print run within weeks. Trained facilitators and online videos are available to augment a meeting’s experience with Build It. ❍ Sponsorship of a Quaker group at the 2011 White Privilege Conference, including a Quaker hospitality room at the conference. 68 Friends registered through FGC for a deeply discounted rate and more participated in Quaker sharing onsite. ❍ 34 Quaker Quest workshops or interest groups in 16 states/provinces. In total, at least 60 Quaker meetings have held full-day workshops to explore Quaker Quest and 20 have gone on to offer public sessions. ❍ 10 workshops or introductory events on the Godly Play/Faith & Play approach to children’s religious education. ❍ Regional retreats that carry the Traveling Ministries Program into host communities, to reach and nurture experienced and emerging ministers. A Call to Community “I was welcomed as a New/ Old Soul of Seekers, graced with an outpouring of love unlike any other time that I remember in my life.” — Genevieve Wimp-McCann on encountering the Friends of Color Center at her first FGC Gathering

photograph by John Greenler The work of building a loving spiritual community is a sacred labor which pervades FGC’s programs, ministries, and structure in myriad ways. The ministry of hospitality experienced when meetings host FGC committees, the “kitchen table” ministry that occurs during Traveling Ministries visits, the message of welcome shared through Quaker Quest, the collection of smaller communities created each year at the Gathering — these are just a few examples of the call to community experienced each year through FGC. FGC offers many specific opportunities for Friends to gather — across yearly meetings — in order to build Quaker community encompassing wide physical and theological spectrums. In 2011, FGC invited Friends from all over to gather in places such as: ❍ Chicago, IL ❍ Grinnell, IA ❍ Hanover, VT ❍ Minneapolis, MN ❍ Raleigh, NC ❍ Rochester, NY for conferences, consultations, and the Gathering. FGC also connects our religious society with the wider religious world by providing faithful representation to the National Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and other ecumenical and interfaith bodies. The work of building community between Quakers and other faith groups predates FGC’s founding and remains an essential ministry. FGC is governed by a Central Committee composed of 149 Friends, 81 of whom are appointed Friends General Conference is an by affiliated yearly and monthly meetings. association of 15 yearly meetings and regional groups: Officers FGC Staff Alaska Friends Conference (185) Presiding Clerk Sue Regen (NYYM) Chel Avery Publications & Communications Baltimore Yearly Meeting (4,781) Assistant Clerk Rich Van Dellen (NYM) Coordinator Canadian Yearly Meeting (1,160) Recording Clerk Deborah Haines (BYM) Susan Lee Barton Conference & Administrative Associate Illinois Yearly Meeting (1,020) David Botwinik Publications Associate Assistant Recording Clerk Christina VanRegenmorter Intermountain Yearly Meeting (1,083) (SAYMA) Elaine Crauderueff Ministries & Quaker Quest Coordinator Lake Erie Yearly Meeting (786) Barry Crossno General Secretary Treasurer Stoph Hallward (SAYMA) New England Yearly Meeting Eric Evans Nurturing Ministries Associate Assistant Treasurer Craig SanPietro (PHLYM) (4,012) Deborah Fisch Associate Secretary for Ministries New York Yearly Meeting (3,472) Graham Garner Bookstore Manager Committee Clerks Northern Yearly Meeting (1,475) Michael Gibson Faith & Play Coordinator Christian & Interfaith Relations Virginia Driscoll (PFF) Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (755) Larry Jalowiec Director of Stewardship Services and Dot Walizer (BYM) Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (11,617) Friends Meeting House Fund Dick Steele (SCYM) Vanessa Julye Nurturing Ministries Coordinator Carrie Karhnak-Glasby Development Manager Piedmont Friends Fellowship Long Range Conference Planning Karen Stewart (PFF) (1,030) David Kosbob Web Worker & Bookstore Clerk Nurturing Ministries: Beckey Phipps (NEYM) Southeastern Yearly Meeting (518) Patsy Arnold Martin Junior Gathering Coordinator Deepening Subcommittee Krists Estes (SAYMA) Ken Miller Fiscal & Property Manager Southern Appalachian YM & Assn Growing Subcommittee Trudy Rogers (PHLYM) (1,052) Transforming Subcommittee Jean-Marie Barch (PHLYM) Jerimy Pedersen Associate Bookstore Manager Publications and Distribution Joan Broadfield (PHLYM) Chris Pifer Web & CRM Manager South Central Yearly Meeting (750) Nicole Rayborn Administrative Associate Advisory Rich Van Dellen (NYM) Numbers in parentheses indicate Bill Sanderson Computer Systems Manager Communications Aaron Crosman (PHLYM) yearly meeting membership. Madeline Schaefer Communications/Quaker Quest Intern Development Merry Stanford (LEYM) Kathy Stepkowicz Development Associate Discernment, Planning & Priorities Marian Beane (PFF) Traci Hjelt Sullivan Conference Coordinator Eleven monthly meetings have direct Finance Sally Weaver Sommer Michael Wajda Associate Secretary for affiliation with FGC either because (LEYM) Development & Interpretation they do not belong to any yearly Nominating Ernie Buscemi (NYYM) Keira Wilson Quaker Quest Associate meeting or because their yearly Personnel Frank Barch (PHLYM) Our current staffing level represents 20.35 full-time equivalents. meeting is not affiliated with FGC: Central City Friends Meeting, NE Davis Friends Meeting, CA Friends General Conference Financial Statement / October 1, 2010–September 30, 2011 Fairhope Friends Meeting, AL Five Rivers Monthly Meeting, SC INCOME US $ EXPENSE US $ Heartland Friends Meeting, KS Manhattan Friends Meeting, KS Bookstore 410,409 Program Income 859,966 Olympia Monthly Meeting, WA Bookstore 278,804 Gathering 503,611 Oread Friends Meeting, KS Gathering 523,634 Publications 107,404 Sacramento Friends Meeting, CA Publications 39,562 Topeka Friends Meeting, KS Other Registrations & Reimbursements 17,966 Christian & Interfaith Work 11,796 Wyoming Friends Meeting, WY Contributions 585,651 Friends Meeting House Fund 25,562 Individuals 376,918 Cover photograph by Colby Abazs Monthly Meetings 66,867 Quaker Quest 183,243 Yearly Meetings 88,460 Other Programs for Nurturing Ministries 261,385 Funds & Foundations 53,406 Stewardship Services 109,630 Other Income 201,876 Bequests 112,274 Administration 342,027 Endowment Income 51,575 Communications 292,489 Interest & Other Income 38,027 Development 231,881 1216 Arch Street 2B Transfers 1,048,616 Campaign Expenses 43,151 From Campaign Fund 545,415 Philadelphia, PA 19107 From Cornell Fund 334,928 Transfer to Campaign Reserves 494,640 Office: 215.561.1700 From Restricted & Designated Reserves 98,661 Transfer to Restricted and Designated 216,672 Fax: 215.561.0759 From Unrestricted Reserves 69,612 Operating Reserves Email: [email protected] Campaign gifts (new gifts and pledge 537,791 Web: www.fgcquaker.org payments received) www.QuakerFinder.org TOTAL INCOME 3,233,900 TOTAL EXPENSE 3,233,900 Bookstore: www.quakerbooks.org