Our Meeting has been thinking about our diminished size and what to do about it for some time. We’ve gotten started on strategically examining what the future holds and this page contains a summary of what we’ve been up to.

In August of 2025, we dedicated one of our Spiritual Exploration Groups (SEGs) to the topic of Facing the Future, Together. Click on this link to learn about our opening session: Part I: August 17, 2025, Spiritual Exploration Group (SEG). This SEG event was a real success—people shared openly, and many thoughtful ideas emerged. We agreed to dedicate the September SEG to the topic of our Meeting’s future.

Exploring the Future of our Meeting — Part IIILeading up to the September SEG, we continued the conversation. Click on this link to learn about our entracte communications: Strategic Planning between the August and September Meetings.

In September of 2025, we dedicated another of our Spiritual Exploration Groups (SEGs) to the topic of Facing the Future, Together. Click on this link to learn about our second session: Part II: September 21, 2025, Spiritual Exploration Group (SEG).

We planned on meeting again in January and then again the 3rd Sunday in February but got snowed out both times. (Thinking it was important to have a hybrid meeting so some of us could meet fExploring the Future of our Meeting — Part IIIace-to-face, we did not take the zoom-only route.) In the lead to this meeting, some of us attended Emily Provance’s Laying Down Meetings conversation circles and her nomenclature was valuable to the discussion. Click on this link to learn about our Winter session: Exploring the Future of our Meeting — Part III.