Belonging and responsibility
What does it really mean to ‘belong’ to a Quaker Meeting?
At Hemel Hempstead, elders and overseers meet once a month. Two items always appear on the agenda – Pastoral Care and Membership. Numerically, Hemel Hempstead is a big Meeting, with forty-one members, yet we regularly only average seventeen Friends at Meeting for Worship. Five are attenders. They give great support to the Meeting. But those acknowledged members who no longer worship with us, or support the life of the Meeting in other ways, do concern elders and overseers.
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