Meeting for Sufferings: Trustees
'Trustees had learned that they could discern effectively online, but missed the fellowship of in-person meetings.'
Introducing the BYM trustees report, clerk Caroline Nursey thanked representatives for the ‘engaging’ sessions they’d shared before this formal meeting. Trustees had learned that they could discern effectively online, but missed the fellowship of in-person meetings. Finding the right balance was going to be a challenge, she said.
Relating trustees’ meetings with central committee clerks had been a turbulent time, Caroline said, but work was now progressing in line with priorities set by the Yearly Meeting.
Treasurer Linda Batten predicted a break-even budget by 2023. There were uncertainties around this, of course, but her message was clear: if Friends wanted more work done in their name, they would have to give more.
The day ended as it had begun, with poetry. A Friend offered a metaphor from Rainer Maria Rilke. Sometimes life wasn’t a journey, said the Friend, but a set of ‘widening circles’.
Full minutes at www.quaker.org.uk/mfspapers.
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