Meeting for Sufferings: Young Friends at MfS
'Friends of working age were often forced to be less connected with Meetings, she said, but the Engaging Young Adult Quakers project could help nominations groups find them.'
In this most recent triennium, MfS reserved four places for adult Friends under the age of thirty-five. Naomi Major, the Engaging Young Adult Quakers project manager, had consulted with young Friends on this experiment and reported back. Feedback was positive, she said, though a buddy system would have improved the move. She had some further recommendations, including a call for Area Meetings (AMs) to appoint one representative or alternate under fifty. There was some concern, she said, that the four non-geographic places could be seen as tokenistic, since they were not linked to any particular Meeting. Friends of working age were often forced to be less connected with Meetings, she said, but the EYAQ project could help nominations groups find them. It could be that some younger Friends would have links with certain AMs despite having to move away for employment, but modern communications methods could resolve that.
