Area Meetings: what is the future?

Gillian Blunden Grant urges Friends to ‘think outside the box’ about Area Meetings

Our Friend, Ian Beeson speaks to my condition (1 January) and the thoughts I have been having since reading the report of Meeting for Sufferings 11 December 2015.

This is what the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) says about itself: ‘The principal activity of [an] Area Quaker Meeting is the arrangement and holding of public Meetings for Worship [after the manner of Friends] at its constituent Local Meetings.’ (AM Annual Trustees Report, 2015). The Society is a charity ‘established for the advancement of religion’.

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