Staff leaving
Yes, of course, it is human to speculate when Friends House staff resign. Similarly, it’s human to ask ourselves questions when a couple in our Local Meeting decide to separate – nevertheless, we step back from bothering them, we sit quietly with them in worship, we hope for a happier future for them. Respect for each person’s individual journey, as well as good personnel practice, means that we will give our staff the same consideration. In the local Meeting, if we are an elder or overseer it’s part of our job to offer loving and sensitive help; in the Yearly Meeting, I fully expect that the Friends whom we have appointed as trustees are thinking and working hard.

Whether it’s in the Local Meeting or our bigger Yearly Meeting community, Donald Court’s words in Quaker faith & practice 10.33 are helpful: ‘… I need a quality of friendship which involves praying for me. By this I mean that they care enough: to think of me; to ask themselves if there is any special need of mine they can meet; to commend what they don’t know about me to God’s wisdom; and when we meet, to make me welcome.’
Beth Allen

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