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- 7 ways to welcome children and families to your Quaker meeting — from Quakers in Britain 13 February 2020
- SAQN September 2019 is available 15 October 2019
- SAYM 2019 Minutes are available 15 August 2019
- Epistle from YM 2019 27 April 2019
- Richard Gush Lecture 2019 23 April 2019
Category Archives: Uplift and outreach
SAYM 2018 delegates’ pack available for download
The Pack that will be distributed to Yearly Meeting attendees has gone to the printer. For those Friends who wish to read the contents in advance, please download the PDF file from the link below. SAYM Pack 2018 — PDF file … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, African issues, Alternatives to Violence Programme (AVP), Calendar items, Children, Environment, Ethics, Lectures, Online issues, Publications, Quaker community, Reports, Resources, SAFCEI, Spirituality, Stewardship, Uplift and outreach, World community, Yearly Meeting, Young Friends
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On Quaker outreach
Words by Friends: Emily Provance | Friends General Conference On her blog Turning, Turning, Emily Provance of Fifteenth Street Meeting (and Interim Young Adult Field Secretary for New York Yearly Meeting until early November) explores an outreach model for Quaker meetings that is geared towards the experience … Continue reading
World Quaker Day at CWMM
‘We invited a Muslim group to Meeting for Worship yesterday and ten members came from the Ahmadiyya Jama’at group in East Rondebosch. They are an unusual Muslim group and have experienced persecution by other Muslims in Pakistan where they originated … Continue reading
ZFRA Report
Report from John Schmid. Visit the ZFRA website at www.zfra.org. Bulawayo, 21 April 2017 Yesterday we provided food to Mawusumane, a village in the Matopos Hills. After the unusually heavy rains earlier this year, there was water running everywhere and the baboons, … Continue reading
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Phoenix Zululand: Restorative Justice Programme
Update from Phoenix Zululand director Jane Argall: For the past fifteen years Phoenix Zululand has offered programme work to serving offenders in 10 correctional centres in KwaZulu-Natal. The work of the organisation is overseen by an active Board of Management, … Continue reading
FWCC news: three major meetings coming up
FWCC is asking Friends to uphold three important gatherings that are taking place between now and 8 April. These meetings will guide the work of FWCC in the Americas and Africa, as well as at the global level. Click the … Continue reading
FWCC Arts Calendar 2018 to celebrate Quaker Peacemaking
For the artists among us, FWCC is partnering with Linda Murgatroyd to produce an arts calendar for 2018 celebrating Quaker Peacemaking around the world. We are keen to include artworks reflecting Quaker peacemaking around the world, and of different kinds, in a … Continue reading
Friends of Monze update
Deana went to Monze, a small town of 19,000, in Southern Zambia, where she lived within the local community doing much the same work as she did as a health visitor in Port Talbot. Seeing people in their own homes … Continue reading
Responding to forced migration
Britain Yearly Meeting’s Quaker News number 97 covers the current migration tragedy being played out on the world stage. Click on the link to download the PDF version of Quaker News 97.
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Newsletters, Publications, Quaker community, Resources, Uplift and outreach, World community, World issues
Tagged Europe, Refugee crisis, refugees, response
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New Outreach resources are now available
There are now additional resources for Quaker activities on our website. A Resources section has been added to our Publications page. The New England meeting has just made some new and useful Outreach resources available.