Quakers sign up to faith wills
‘We encourage Friends to leave a legacy gift, to allow us to follow in the footsteps of early Friends.’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined three other denominations and Christian Aid in encouraging people to consider the benefits of setting up ‘faith wills’. The Faith Will initiative aims to encourage faith groups to sign up for free resources to hold a ‘Faith Will moment’.
These are designed to help Meetings and others talk about how people’s generosity in wills can help create change in their communities and around the world. From autumn onwards, churches and Quaker Meetings around the UK will be holding Faith Will moments.
Paul Parker, BYM’s recording clerk, said: ‘This year we are marking 400 years since the birth of George Fox, the beginnings of Quaker work in the world.
‘Today we encourage Friends to leave a legacy gift, to allow us to follow in the footsteps of early Friends for the next 400 years.’
Kerry McMenamin, Faith Will spokesperson, said: ‘Gifts in wills are already transforming communities, near and far. Last year more than 200 churches signed up to receive our free resources to help them have these conversations and this year we aim to double this.’
The initiative was launched last year with the Church of Scotland, Church of England and Quakers. This year they are joined by the United Reformed Church.
