Welcoming all Friends

A Friend writes about the need for action as well as concern

by A Friend 27th July 2018

When I moved to South East London I was pleased to discover that my Local Meeting was wheelchair accessible. I have been a member for most of my life, joining as a pre-teen, and have been in a wheelchair for six years. Prior to this I worshipped at both accessible and inaccessible Meetings, and hadn’t considered the extent to which welcoming disabled Friends should be central to our work. Now I wonder what more I could have done to encourage my Meeting to make necessary changes to place elderly and disabled Friends in our actions as well as our thoughts.