Among Western Friends - What a new attender needs to know.
Sponsor(s):
Announcing an online conversation:
Among Western Friends - What a new attender needs to know.
October 26, 2025 at 3 pm Pacific/4 pm Mountain Daylight Time.
If you’re new to a Quaker meeting, have you puzzled over Friends subculture, with
questions such as:
- What else does a meeting do besides sit in silence?
- How is this different from the church where I grew up?
- If I have an idea or a need, whom should I ask?
- When do I speak up in worship or a conversation?
- What is the Quaker language: Clearness, Unity, Threshing?
- Is there some core belief or practice that’s essential?
If you want to involve new attenders with your local meeting, what do they want and
need to know? When should you invite them to lunch, or to meeting for business?
What’s a good book or pamphlet to offer? If a Friend has experience in some other
region, what are the differences for these versions of Quakerism?
Quakers will gather from across the West to hear reflections from a panel of new
comers, including Lou Glowacki, Mary Ward, David Westmoreland and Jerilyn
Winstead. Lively interchange will continue in small groups and with the larger body.
Register via the link below or by contacting:
- Jay Thatcher <[email protected]>, or
- Cheryl Speir-Phillips <[email protected]>
This is an outreach program sponsored by Western Friend.