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Unprogrammed Quakers in the Rocky Mountain West

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IMYM Committees (and Working Groups)

IMYM Faith and Practice says: "Committees conduct business in the same manner as the monthly meeting does, waiting on the Spirit for direction in their work and unity in their decisions. A written charge to each committee clarifies what is expected of it and of its clerk as well as the limits of authority delegated to it. Such clarity and communication promotes an atmosphere of trust, allowing meetings, their officers, clerks, and committees to fulfill their respective tasks without wasteful duplication or frustration.

Committee members should be selected according to their abilities and concerns.

Because committee work enables Friends to engage in the life of the meeting, it provides familiarity with Friends’ faith and business practices, especially our decision-making process. Service on a committee also offers Friends an opportunity to use their particular gifts and to deepen friendships among the members."

Current Appointments

IMYM Officers and Committees
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS HERE. The IMYM Nominating Committee updates this list regularly. If you have any questions, comments, or need more info please contact: nominating@imym.org

Our officers include: the Clerks of Yearly Meeting and Representatives Committee, Recording Clerk of Yearly Meeting, Registrars, Treasurer, and Clerk of Finance Committee

Please consider volunteering for service on a committee or as an officer of IMYM.

Committee (& Working Group) Workspaces

Access and create committee folders & files on the IMYM Google Drive
Email committees
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Coordinating Committee

"The Coordinating Committee that was formed at last year’s annual gathering, has been committed and energetic. We expect that it will continue to work, be supportive of the presiding clerk and help create things that the yearly meeting has made clear it wants." - IMYM State of the Meeting Report 2025

IMYM Minute 06.15.2024 (Annual Gathering 2024)

Intermountain Yearly Meeting creates a Coordinating Committee composed of the co-clerks, clerk of the Representatives Committee and several experienced Friends approved by the Nominating Committee. Its purpose is to support the Clerks in stewarding the operations of the Yearly Meeting and facilitate implementation of our Way Forward.

Faith and Practice Committee

The IMYM community is in the process of revising our Faith & Practice through a multi-year discernment, writing and approval process. We have a Faith & Practice Committee (current members) and continue to form Content Working Groups based on Friends feedback (initially: Relationship with Earth and Families).

The committee has now made the full text of the existing (2009) Faith & Practice available online in a form that accepts comments.

If you would like to become active with the committee’s work, we encourage you to express your interest to the Committee by writing to us with your ideas, suggestions, interests, working group areas of expertise and/or concerns at faithandpractice@imym.org.

READ MORE about F&P.

Finance Committee

The Finance Committee oversees the finances of the Yearly Meeting. The Committee prepares a draft annual budget for presentation to the Representatives Committee. It also keeps the officers of IMYM updated on Meeting finances through regular quarterly reports and other communications as needed. The Finance Committee has the responsibility to prepare and present a report of the current state of the finances at the Annual Gathering session.

Members include: the Finance Committee Clerk, Liaison for Facilities, the Treasurer the retiring Treasurer, the IMYM Presiding Clerk, the Representatives Committee Clerk, and the Arrangements Committee Clerk, plus one representative from Senior Young Friends and one representative from each Regional Meeting.

Representatives Committee

IMYM has entrusted its standing Representatives Committee with the general care of the business of the yearly meeting between the Annual Gathering sessions. While it is preferable for decisions to wait until the Meetings for Business of the Annual Gathering when possible, Representatives Committee has the authority to make decisions (including approving minutes and making financial decisions) between annual gatherings.

Membership: The Committee will contain a Clerk, a Recording Clerk, one Representative from each local Meeting (Monthly Meeting, Preparative Meeting, or Worship Group), and specified clerks of IMYM committees and others, including but not limited to:

Representatives Committee Clerk
Representatives Committee Recording Clerk
Yearly Meeting Presiding Clerk
Arrangements Committee Clerk
Nominating Committee Clerk
Ministry and Counsel Committee Clerk
Procedures Committee Clerk
Finance Committee Clerk
Treasurer
Web Clerk
Delegates Committee Clerk
Peace and Service Committee Clerk
A Friendly Adult Presence from Senior Young Friends
A representative from each Regional Meeting, at their discretion
A representative from Senior Young Friends, at their discretion

All of these clerks are appointed by Nominating Committee according to the usual procedures of IMYM, and approved by the yearly meeting, except for the Web Clerk (who is appointed and overseen by Representatives Committee), the representatives appointed by Regional Meetings, and SYF’s representative and FAPs who are appointed by Senior Young Friends.

Representatives will follow Friends customary practice of group discernment. They should not serve as instructed delegates but should bring local concerns forward. To help insure a full and fair voicing of the variety of viewpoints within IMYM, we strongly recommend that those listed above not also serve as local Meeting representatives.

- in Service to the Light

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