Central Yearly Meeting of Friends

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends

churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio.
Central Yearly Meeting of
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is part of the Conservative Friends
Holiness Movement, and originated in the Gurneyite wing of the Classification Quakerism
Orthodox branch of Quakerism. Meeting for worship is programmed Orientation Holiness
and led by pastors. It is an independent yearly meeting of Quakers,
not affiliated with any broader associations. Origin 1926

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends was founded in 1926 by several meetings in eastern Indiana which were
concerned that other yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends were trending towards liberalism in
theology and practice.[1]

Central Friends is associated with Union Bible College.[2] Missionary work is sponsored in Bolivia.

An annual camp meeting is held near Muncie, Indiana, every August. There was none in 2020.

Members of the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends practice the traditional Quaker teaching of plain dress, part
of the Quaker testimony of simplicity.[3]

See also
Conservative Friends

References
1. "Central Yearly Meeting of Friends" (http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3402400091/qu
akers-friends.html). Retrieved 22 December 2012.
2. Abbott, Margery Post (2012). Historical Dictionary of Friends (Quakers). Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press. p. 79.
3. Manual of Faith and Practice of Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. Central Yearly Meeting of
Friends. 2018. p. 107–110.

External links
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends (https://web.archive.org/web/20131005050710/http://www.ce
ntralyearlymeetingoffriends.org/) (Archived Website)
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends (https://web.archive.org/web/20160825235209/http://www.cy
mfriends.com/) (Archived Website)
Union Bible College & Academy (https://ubca.org/) (Website of Affiliated Seminary)

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