Northern Yearly Meeting is a Yearly Meeting

Yearly Meeting

Yearly Meeting is a term used by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, to refer to an organization composed of a collection of smaller, more frequent constituent meetings within a geographical area. These constituent meetings go by various names such as Quarterly Meetings, which...

 of the Religious Society of Friends

Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...

 (Quakers). It is affiliated with the Friends General Conference

Friends General Conference

Friends General Conference is a North American Quaker organization primarily serving the Quaker yearly and monthly meetings in the United States and Canada that choose to be members...

. The Northern Yearly Meeting consists of meetinghouses from the upper Mid-West of The United States, particularly in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, North Dakota

North Dakota

North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

, South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

, and Iowa

Iowa

Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

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The Annual Sessions of the Yearly Meeting are held over Memorial Day

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War...

 weekend, historically in Wisconsin.

History

Northern Yearly Meeting started as Northern Half-Yearly Meeting in 1960. Around 1975 the group became Northern Yearly Meeting around due to increased membership.

Meetings Affiliated with the Northern Yearly Meeting

• Beloit Friends Meeting
• Bismarck Friends Meeting
• Brainerd Friends Meeting,
• Cannon Valley Friends Meeting
• Dodgeville Friends Worship Group
• Dubuque Friends Worship Group
• Duluth-Superior Friends Meeting
• Eau Claire Friends Meeting
• Fox Valley Friends Meeting
• Grand Rapids Friends Worship Group
• Interlake Friends Meeting
• Keewenaw Friends Meeting
• Kenosha-Racine Friends Worship Group
• Kickapoo Valley Friends Meeting
• La Crosse Friends Worship Group
• Lake Superior Friends Meeting,
• Madison Friends Meeting
• Menomonie Friends Meeting
• Milwaukee Friends Meeting
• Minneapolis Friends Meeting
• North Central Wisconsin Friends Worship Group
• Northern Light Preparative Meeting
• Northern Pines Worship Group
• Oshkosh Friends Meeting
• Prospect Hill Friends Meeting
• Red River Friends Monthly Meeting
• Richland Friends Worship Group
• Rochester Friends Meeting
• Saint Croix Valley Friends Meeting
• Sand Ridge Friends Worship Group
• South Dakota Friends
• Stevens Point Friends Meeting
• Twin Cities Friends Meeting
• West Side Worship Group
• Willmar Friends Worship Group
• Winnebago Friends Worship Group
• Winona Friends Preparatory Meeting

External links

• Northern Yearly Meeting Official Website