Harrogate 'living adventurously'. Photo: Fleur Parker.
Friends live adventurously for Quaker Week
Meetings across Britain took part in Quaker Week events
The theme for Quaker Week 2015 was ‘Live adventurously’, and a number of Meetings across Britain took up the challenge.
More than one hundred people took part in events organised by Harrogate Meeting. Six Meetings for Worship took place, including several outdoors. The Meeting’s children, when asked to interpret living adventurously, chose to have ‘an adventure in the woods’. Eighteen children were joined by fifteen adults. Together they explored, built dens and had quiet time.
During Quaker Week, adult Friends in Harrogate also enjoyed a talk from Margaret Nunnerly on Quakers and peace, launched a new study group, and, with CND, co-hosted a screening of The War Games.
Harrogate Friends also lived adventurously online. Fleur Parker told the Friend that the Meeting made its first foray into social media, with a time-limited Facebook page for Quaker Week and live Tweeting.
In Birmingham, Selly Oak and Cotteridge Meetings worked together to organise three events. The first of these was coffee and cake with local shoppers, prompting ‘both light-hearted and in-depth conversations’, Hilary Johnson of Cotteridge Meeting said.
Friends in Winchester held Meeting for Worship in a local park. It was ‘a deeply gathered Meeting’, Winchester Friend Wendy Barnaby said, designed ‘to give passers-by a taste of the essence of Quakerism’.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) director Judith Moran spoke at Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting House. Her presentation, ‘Speaking truth to power… and taking practical action for social justice’ described QSA projects and the work of the charity.
