Northwest Yearly Meeting Local Churches
Scope and Contents
This compilation of records from NWYM Friends (Quaker) local churches throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho consists of directories, minutes, written histories, statistics, membership records, annual reports, newsletters, some correspondence, bulletins and programs. It also contains archived records of some “monthly meetings” and quarterly meetings, as well as some records from active churches.
Dates
- ca1875-2010
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is available for research.
Historical Note
NWYM Friends (Quaker) congregations throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho maintain contact with the Yearly Meeting administration through representatives at the annual meeting in Newberg, Oregon. The local meetings, called either “churches” or “meetings” were once referred to as “Monthly Meetings” and were additionally categorized into “Quarterly Meetings.” Now the designation is “Area Meeting” and the requisite number of assemblies required has been reduced to only two per year, while the traditional expectation was that events for local churches in close proximity would take place at least four times each year.
A Presiding Clerk conducts business meetings at the local level with statistical recording and minutes maintained by the Recording Clerk. Other officers are appointed as needed. The NWYM Website: http://nwfriends.org/governance section states: “in the church, members have equal rights and privileges varying only in accordance with the nature of their gifts and their faithfulness in exercising them. There are no distinctions in the rights, privileges, or responsibilities of members because of gender, color, or race. Friends polity is connectional, rather than congregational or Episcopal; therefore yearly meeting represents the highest court of appeal in matters of faith and practice.”
Extent
56 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This compilation of records from NWYM Friends (Quaker) local churches throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho consists of directories, minutes, written histories, statistics, membership records, annual reports, newsletters, some correspondence, bulletins and programs.
Accruals
According to the NWYM website, NWYM Archives accepts only materials from closed churches. There are, however, many historic records in our archives from currently active congregations.
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Anne Holiday, GFU Student Worker 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the George Fox University and Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Archives Repository