Friends met between Bruges and Ghent. Photo: Kate Macdonald.
Being and doing
Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting met from 10-12 June
Quakers from Belgium and Luxembourg held their residential Yearly Meeting in Maldegem Youth Hostel, between Bruges and Ghent, from 10-12 June.
Thirty-five Friends – and friends – attended. Among them were representatives of Britain, France and Netherlands Yearly Meetings, and the clerk of the Europe and Middle East Section of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (EMES-FWCC).
The theme, ‘Who am I as a Quaker in this rapidly changing world?’, was facilitated using the Open Space method, in which all those present created the agenda through spontaneous contributions and all-age activities.
‘‘‘Being” was as important as “doing”, and there was much playfulness and quiet thinking,’ Kate Macdonald, clerk of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting, said.
Kate added that the Meeting also discerned the way forward for initiating an annual statement of membership.
