London Friends hold first blended gathering
'The gathering was the first of a series of Meetings which are being managed by the seven Area Meetings of London to ‘move towards creating a single AM for London’.'
Quakers came together last weekend for the first joint blended Meeting of the London Area Meetings (AMs).
Friends also had the opportunity to meet Julia Stacey, the new Children and Young People worker for London, at the event at Friends House. According to the Steering Group of London Together, the Meeting set a precedent for future Meetings. With a lively children’s programme running alongside the event on 3 February, Friends said they ‘see Children and Young People as very much part of this’. Attenders also reflected on the joy of coming together and the need to evolve.
The gathering was the first of a series of Meetings which are being managed by the seven Area Meetings of London to ‘move towards creating a single AM for London’. Other plans from the Steering Group include: another ‘poetry social’ in the spring; an ‘active hope’ event, following a well-received workshop in December; an in-person day learning about eldership and pastoral friend work; a reparations event; and, possibly, a presentation of a gender diversity epistle which ‘has been slowly developing under the guidance of a group of Friends’.
