Welcome!
Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is an association of Quaker meetings and worship groups in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Upcoming Events
A note about traditional Quaker names for months and days of the week.
Scattergood Friends School and Farm summer programs for grades 5-9: Spanish Language and Culture.
Click here for details.
Seventh Month 30 to Eighth Month 4, 2013: Annual Sessions of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Scattergood Friends School, near West Branch, Iowa.
News and Announcements
Job Opening: Development Associate for Friends General Conference in Philadelphia. Deadline is May 15. Download this flyer for details.
Scattergood School Farm Manager Mark Quee gave a terrific closing speech at the February 8, 2013 Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Cooperators Meeting. You can read the speech on the PFI website or download a pdf.
IYM(C) Quakers on the radio! Rob Dillard of Iowa Public Radio featured segments on different religious groups on "Being in Iowa" the week of October 22-26. If you missed the original broadcast, you can listen online here to interviews with members of our yearly meeting as well as Iowa Yearly Meeting (FUM): iowapublicradio.org/
Read an AFSC blog post about the Scattergood School peace walk held on September 8: Moved and Shaken for Peace.
Here is a YouTube video of the barn razing at the Scattergood Farm during IYMC yearly meeting sessions last summer: Barn razing at Scattergood.
Read Deborah Fink's article on Iran in the Ames Tribune from 10-6-2012: "Maybe war-mongers need a waiting period"
The Iowan Sept-Oct. 2012, published a superb article highlighting 4 farms, and one of those farms was Scattergood's! Read it here.
More from Scattergood! Two recent stories from the West Branch Times:
Scattergood Marches Against Afghan War
2012 drought may lead to problems years from now
News from Scattergood School and Farm! Some recent bequests have been received by Scattergood's endowment, which now stands at over $4 million, which puts it among the top 15% of US boarding schools with a student population under 120. More details in this letter.
Learn about the Possibility Alliance, the intentional community associated with Silver River Worship Group in Missouri. From a local TV news story. http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=793985#.UELANUKLOJ1
From the Earthcare Subcommittee, August 2012: Please read this letter from Jose Aguto, FCNL Legislative Secretary for Sustainable Energy and Environment, with many action suggestions and information sources on climate change.
Welcome to Laughing Waters Meeting in South Minneapolis, MN, now a preparative meeting under the care of Bear Creek Meeting. www.laughingwatersfriends.org
Click to see larger picture of the group at Midyear Meeting,
thanks to photographer Jeff Kisling.