Quaker lockdown community marks 1,001 days
The gathering was called the Lighthouse Epilogue as it could be ‘relied upon to shine out every evening’
A Quaker community that was created to help Friends in lockdown marked its 1,001st online worship this month.
Started by Quaker Life, the daily evening worship provided by the Lighthouse Epilogue was first held at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown in April 2020, following multiple requests for spiritual support.
The gathering evolved into a community of around twenty regular attenders every night, including two Friends by telephone.
According to the Quakers in Britain website, ‘Now Quaker Life staff feel encouraged that the Epilogue will offer clues in how to set up and sustain non-geographic communities as Zoom and other technologies open new pathways to worship.’
Pip Harris, former local development worker for Southwest England, said that having a core group like Quaker Life to support non-geographic communities was vital in their initial stages. ‘I still have people say to me that it’s not possible to have a spiritual connection online… But we have a community here which feels very centred and very strong.’
The gathering was called the Lighthouse Epilogue as it could be ‘relied upon to shine out every evening’. The community is now largely self-sufficient, with occasional support from Wendy Hampton, the Northwest England local development worker. More information can be found at https://padlet.com/EpilogueCrew/January23.
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