Reaching Out: Quaker Quest ten years on

In the first of a new series, Alec Davison describes the origins and developments of Quaker Quest and celebrates a decade of an experimental vision

by Alec Davison 6th January 2012

As we travelled, we came near a very great hill, called Pendle Hill, and I was moved of the Lord to go up to the top of it… From the top of this hill the Lord let me see in what places he had a great people to be gathered.  - George Fox Our ‘Pendle Hill experience’ was to imagine viewing, from the summit of the London Eye, the vastness of one of the largest cities in the world – and the invisibility of Quakers. So few of us amongst a populace of so many: so much to offer but so feeble the proffering. We felt the stirring of a leading.