Meeting for Sufferings: Gathering by the lake

Ian Kirk-Smith reports on the Meetings for Sufferings residential weekend at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

by Ian Kirk-Smith 8th February 2013

Change was the order of the day at the first Meeting for Sufferings in 2013.

A rare residential weekend of Meeting for Sufferings was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham. It was the first time in the Centre’s one-110-year history it had hosted the event.

Some ninety Friends gathered in a packed Cadbury room. Friends who felt rather ‘crowded’ were reminded that Gandhi had once addressed 300 people in the same space!