May. Outreach is a continuing concern for our smaller meetings. The Yearly Meeting's outreach grants have helped to provide phone service and phone boook listings as well as materials on Quakerism to several meetings. For meetings without property, visibility in the community can be a challenge. One meeting has adopted a stretch of highway, both as a community service and as a way to have a sign. Another is active and well accepted in the local ministerium, which provides a number of avenues for becoming known.
Size is a mixed blessing.
Our great geographical spread makes visitation among meetings difficult. This is an area where we need to find ways to help each other more. Our distance from Philadelphia also makes participation in the world of Friends beyond our Quarter a challenge. In spite of that, we have four Friends serving on Standing Committees of the Yearly Meeting and several regular attenders at Interim Meeting. The community of Friends in our Quarter is vital to those of us in small and isolated meetings.