'Neglect your spider plants; don’t worry too much about your bags, and welcome strangers.' Photo: Tor Håkon Haugen / flickr CC.

Roy Vickery writes about welcoming visitors to Meetings

Neglect your spider plants!

Roy Vickery writes about welcoming visitors to Meetings

by Roy Vickery 26th January 2018

The Meeting I usually attend is relatively big and receives a large number of visitors. Often we are asked to donate funds to support other, smaller, Meetings that find it difficult to maintain their activities. This raises at least two questions: are there other ways in which we can support Meetings, and are they all worthy of support? In an attempt to answer these questions I decided to visit other Local Meetings.

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