CYM Annual Gathering

Welcome!

This is home for the 2027 all-online Annual Gatherings of the Canadian Yearly Meeting.

We meet this year from Thursday July 15 - through Sunday July 19.

Click the button below, or look to the top of this page for the link called "Program," to see the events and Zoom links.

What is a Canadian Yearly Meeting Annual Gathering?

The Annual Gathering is our time to come together from our various places in the country, to be in conversation with one another, to engage in spiritual refreshment together, to hold learning sessions about faith and faith-in-action, to enjoy the company of F/friends, and to conduct the business of being the Canadian Quaker collective in the world. 

We changed how we come together during the pandemic shutdown so that we could continue to come together. Some of those changes opened doors for us, and we’ve kept them open.

Now our annual gatherings strive to make a blended space for those who attend in person and those who attend online. The call of a Quaker Meeting is Come, and we mean it. Come as you are able. Some years, we hold the Gathering entirely online and some years we blend both experiences. 

We conduct much of our business in online meetings several times a year. So the summer meeting isn’t our one time of being ‘In-Session’; there are smaller business sessions throughout the year. 

But, as for the energy, joy, challenge, learning, welcoming of Spirit, fostering of our young ones, that’s all here at a CYM Annual Gathering. We heed our Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, participate in the Bible or Quaker Study workshop series, sharpen our ideas in Special Interest Groups, hold space for Affinity Groups, lift up our children and youth program, come together in worship and worship sharing, and—oh yes—conduct the business of being the Quaker voice in Canada.