ANNUAL REPORT

Companions began 2025 taking a deep look at what holds our beloved Society together. It’s our focus on prayer, we said. It is the openness and acceptance of our community life. It’s our support for social justice and the many opportunities we offer for contemplative reflection and study.

We also faced the reality that the expense of maintaining old, wooden buildings—basically a summer camp with 75 beds—is demanding so much of our financial assets that we risked emptying our cash reserves within seven years. Despite our best efforts at planning, cleaning, repairing and marketing, we realized we could no longer make ends meet to keep Adelynrood running.

What was most important to us, we said, were those things in our common life that we experienced together: Companion Conference, Annual Meeting and regional conferences such as the one hosted by the Happehatchee Chapter. We value our web-based studies and programs, prayer services; and, yes, even our committee meetings. We are held together by our chapter relationships and by what we pray in common through our monthly Intercession Paper. We deepened our bonds as we talked with each other and gathered online: the thrice-yearly newsletter, the monthly “From the CinC,” the Companions website, regular meetings of chapter leadership, and social media. We held several Open Conversations, available to all Companions in real time and in recordings, to share with each other what we loved about the Companionship and how together we can face the challenges in front of us.

This dispersed community of over 700 women, stretching across many time zones, strengthened our ties in 2025. We know there are many more women out there who crave what we offer, who would join us in what we love about Companions. We are ready to meet them, as together we walk the Way of the Cross.

READ OUR 2025 ANNUAL REPORT.

JACQUELINE SCHMITT Companion-in-Charge