Yearly Meeting 2023: Session 3 - Looking at Central Committees

Rebecca Hardy, Elinor Smallman, Joseph Jones

by ‘We are a people … forever in transition. To be faithful is to be open to change’ 5th May 2023

Session Three looked specifically at Quaker Central Committeees – the bodies appointed by Meeting for Sufferings to shape the work carried out centrally for and on behalf of Friends. Did these bodies need changing to better fit the contemporary Society of Friends? If this sounds like a simple question, it proved to be a complicated session. Friends reported having a tricky time in the discernment, with some feeling ‘mystified’.