Central Yearly Meeting of Friends

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends
ClassificationQuakerism
OrientationGurneyite
TheologyHoliness
Origin1926
Separated fromIndiana Yearly Meeting
Western Yearly Meeting

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends (Quaker) churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is aligned with the conservative holiness movement, and is a part of the Gurneyite wing of the Orthodox branch of Quakerism. Meeting for worship is programmed and led by pastors.

Central Yearly Meeting of Friends was founded in 1926 by several meetings in eastern Indiana which were concerned about the rise of modernism in the Five Years Meeting, from which they came.[1]

Central Yearly Meeting is associated with Union Bible College.[2] Missionary work is sponsored in Bolivia.[3]

These Quakers publish a periodical known as the Friends Evangel.[4] An annual camp meeting is held near Muncie, Indiana, every August.[citation needed]

Members of the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends practice the traditional Quaker teaching of plain dress, part of the Quaker testimony of simplicity.[5] The Central Yearly Meeting lays emphasis on the Quaker doctrine of perfection, which is explicated in Teaching of Evangelical Friends as Gleaned from George Fox's Journal and Friends Disciplines, by J. Edwin Newby.[6]

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  1. ^ "Central Yearly Meeting of Friends". Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  2. ^ Abbott, Margery Post (2012). Historical Dictionary of Friends (Quakers). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 79.
  3. ^ Daniels, C. Wess; Grant, Rhiannon (4 November 2022). The Quaker World. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-429-63235-8.
  4. ^ Handbook of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends World Committee for Consultation. 1967. p. 34.
  5. ^ Manual of Faith and Practice of Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. 2018. pp. 107–110.
  6. ^ Wenger, John C. (3 October 2000). The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 432. ISBN 978-1-57910-456-6.

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