Meeting for Sufferings: Committee composition
'We can’t just close down a committee and then give the work to someone else. That is not simplification.’
MfS considered a minute from Central Nominations Committee, asking for a review of the prohibition on attenders serving on central committees. Co-clerk Hannah Brock Womack said the committee wants ‘to be able to draw upon the richness and gifts of everybody that is part of a Quaker Meeting’.
One Friend said: ‘The proposal concerns me greatly because I am worried about the integrity of the Society.’ He added: ‘If it has no members, it doesn’t actually exist… In supporting Central Nominations on this we have to go back to the fundamental issue of the meaning of membership.’ Otherwise, we risk ‘a piecemeal erosion of who we are as a Society.’
One Friend wondered if young people and other non-members who are doing the work could be approached about becoming members, and another Friend mentioned the need to be ‘radical and look at the whole structure. We can’t just close down a committee and then give the work to someone else. That is not simplification.’
MfS agreed to a review.
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