Although they don’t yet have official standing as a nonprofit, seven Quaker churches separating from the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends have made significant strides in establishing their own regional denomination, which will be known as the Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends.
In addition to choosing a name during the NWYM’s annual summer meetings at George Fox University in July, the emerging organization selected leaders and formed committees to help guide the work of becoming an independent group before the NWYM’s separation deadline of June 30, 2018.