What makes a Quaker community?

Alison Leonard considers how we can create a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured

by Alison Leonard 27th April 2012

Our registering officer arrived at the Meeting House for the wedding followed closely by her husband, who was loaded down with ledgers, blotting paper and pens. ‘I’m her bag-carrier,’ he said, amiably. ‘Every registering officer should have one. We Quakers spend our time doing, as amateurs, jobs that others do professionally. We need all the help we can get.’