A sign reading 'Croeso I Gymru' and 'Welcome to Wales'. Photo: Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru.
Crynwyr Cymru/Quakers in Wales: Gerald Hewitson
‘Underneath the surface features, matters of great import were being considered.’
Sometimes, during a Meeting for Church Affairs, I look at the situation as a visitor might: amazed by the silent waiting of the gathered body while the clerk writes a minute; surprised at the apparently ultra-keen attention of those gathered to the precise detail and the correct term to capture truth in that minute; impressed by the patience of the clerks in accepting all contributions, while keeping an eye on the heavy agenda, knowing there are external speakers later in the Meeting. All these were much in evidence on the morning of Saturday 24 October, as thirty Friends gathered, during the course of the day, to turn the Crynwyr Cymru/Quakers in Wales (CCQW) strapline ‘Syml; radical; ysbrydol’ (simple, radical, spiritual) into an active living statement of being Quaker in Wales today.
