Quakers reap the benefits of evening worship

We explore the expanding practice of holding Meetings for Worship in the evening.

Last week, Beverley Meeting became the latest Quakers to introduce an evening Meeting for Worship – and of the eight people worshipping, two had never attended a Quaker Meeting before. Brian Fellowes of Beverley Meeting told the Friend: ‘they both said they’d been interested in Quakers for some time, had seen the news piece we sent to the Beverley Guardian about the evening Meeting, and decided to come. As our Meeting house is at the bottom of a dark, narrow lane, we thought this was great – and we will be continuing to hold evening Meetings monthly from now on.’

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