Area Meetings: what is the future?

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

by Gillian Blunden Grant 5th February 2016

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’.