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Colorado Regional 2023 Fall Gathering of Friends October 20-22.
The Colorado Friends 2023 Fall Gathering will be held October 20-22 at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park Colorado. This weekend gathering is a chance for Colorado Quakers to know each other, worship together, have fun together, and deepen our spiritual life together.
ONLINE registration is still OPEN (until Sunday, October 15th)!
In-person registration CLOSED on Sunday, September 17.
Program and Schedule
We’re pleased to have Paula Palmer as our Keynote Speaker Saturday morning on the theme “Being Friends of the Truth: A First Step Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” Paula is a founder and co-director of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a project which grew out of the work of the Indigenous Peoples Concerns Committee at the Boulder Friends Meeting. TRR’s goal is to build relationships among Native and non-Native communities based on truth, respect, justice, and our shared humanity. Since September 2019 TRR has been a ministry within Friends Peace Teams.
Learn more about Paula Palmer and her talk HERE.
See the complete Program Schedule HERE
Daily Worship Sharing groups.
Meeting for Worship
Meeting for Worship with Concern for Business
Daily meals with plenty of selections for eaters of all diets
Precious time for fellowship, autumn nature exploration in Estes Park, and and worship together.
Lodging Options
We have a limited number of the YMCA’s “hotel style” lodge rooms reserved for the gathering. Each room has 2 queen beds. Friends may opt for a private room, but the Colorado Regional Meeting’s cost per person is lower if folks choose to share a room with one or more roommates or family members. We encourage folks to talk with others to find their own roommates and list their names on the registration form. The limited number of remaining rooms will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. It is possible we will run out of rooms before registration closes.
Friends can also register for a YMCA Day Pass to attend the gathering in person without staying at the YMCA– individual meals can be purchased in the dining hall. We hope to make some sessions available for attending online.
Registration Fees
| Registration Package | Per Person Costs to CRM |
| Adult Day Pass | $68.00 |
| Adult – Lodging and Meals – Private Room | $320.00 |
| Adult – Lodging and Meals – 2 per room | $220.00 |
| Adult – Lodging and Meals – 3 per room | $175.00 |
| Adult – Lodging and Meals – 4 per room | $165.00 |
| Adult – Lodging and Meals 5 per room (need a roller bed) | $160.00 |
| Children ages 6-12 – No lodging fee – 5 meals. | $44.75 |
| Children 0-5 | Free |
| Online only | $43.00 |
The weekend is offered on a voluntary Pay as Led basis. Pay as Led is a way to remove barriers for people who hesitate to attend because of costs, by removing the need to request help. The registration form provides information about what actual costs for Colorado Regional are for each type of registration, and registrants can choose the amount they are able to pay. This system has worked well for many Friends groups. To be successful it depends on some people voluntarily paying more than their actual costs to balance those who can only pay a part of their costs, (In some settings Meetings have been asked to contribute an amount into a “Pay as Led Fund” they might otherwise have made available to subsidize participation by their members, but we have not set up a system for this.)
For help or to talk with a person, call Eric Wright, Registrar (720) 252-1104 or send an email message to crm.registrar@imym.org. We hope to see you in Estes Park!
2023 CRM Fall Gathering Documents In Advance
Click the links below to open and download documents.
Proposed Revisions to the CRM Bylaws and Operations Guide
Treasurer’s Report – Coming soon
Map to Ram’s Head Lodge at the YMCA
Previous CRM Events and Documents