Eye - 19 September 2014

From feathery Friends to Friendly connections

Feathered attenders

How do you get families to come to Meeting?

Andrew Backhouse got in touch with Eye to show Wilmslow Meeting’s unusual approach:

‘We have a few children who come fairly irregularly but one parent has already brought a baby owl to Meeting, and offered to bring six owls to show the children and adults.

‘So, the grandchildren and nephews were keen to be invited and it was intriguing to see how gripped the adults were too by, firstly, Libby [Ferguson], our owl handler, talking with the Children’s Meeting, and then presenting the owls to us all.’

Thirty-four Friends met that day, including nine children – ‘four of whom we had not seen before’.