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Meeting for Sufferings: Private sponsorship of refugees
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings, held at Friends House on Saturday 6 February, addressed the subject of the plight of refugees and how Quakers might respond to the present crisis. Those present were asked to help test whether Quakers might support a private sponsorship scheme that would enable a significant number...
Meeting for Sufferings: Progress on sustainability
Frances Voelcker, a member of the Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Sustainability Group, spoke to the group’s written report. She stressed that only half of Area Meetings have appointed representatives to attend the Sustainability Gathering at Swanwick, Derbyshire in March, and urged others to get involved.
Meeting for Sufferings: Our Faith in the Future
Meeting for Sufferings continued with its work on the new framework document, Our faith in the future. The focus remained on life in Area Meetings. Friends gathered in ‘home groups’ to consider what Our faith in the future means in practical terms and how they might recognise achievement of the...
Meeting for Sufferings: Britain Yearly Meeting budgeting process
Meeting for Sufferings was informed of a minute from the Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG) held on 14 October 2015 on budgeting and updates to Quaker faith & practice (Qf&p) and their response to a concern over ‘lack of clarity about accountability’.
Meeting for Sufferings: Yearly Meeting 2016
Deborah Rowlands, Yearly Meeting clerk designate, made several suggestions for encouraging Friends to attend Yearly Meeting 2016. She recommended urging new people from Area Meetings to participate, and in particular encouraged the involvement of children and young people. She also stressed a new feature – participants arriving at Friends House on Friday...
Meeting for Sufferings: Looking ahead to April
Clerk Ethel Livermore explained that the next Meeting for Sufferings, on 2 April, will focus on ‘Quaker values are active in the world’.
Meeting for Sufferings: Epistle from World Plenary
Extracts from the epistle of the Friends World Committee for Consulation World Plenary held in Pisac, Peru, were read by the clerk of Meeting for Sufferings, Ethel Livermore.
Friends back Stop Trident events
Britain Yearly Meeting has given its support to two major Stop Trident events to be held later this month.
Friends host workshop on Iona
Iona Abbey, one of the oldest and most sacred religious places in all of western Europe, is to be the venue for a workshop run by Quakers in early April.
Housing takes centre stage
Friends House will play host to a conference on housing on Saturday 20 February.