Re-Organizing the Meeting to Do its Work (video)
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Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West, 4/13/2016, concerning ways to organize Quaker meetings to improve their vitality.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West, 4/13/2016, concerning ways to organize Quaker meetings to improve their vitality.
Notes of an online conversation among Friends in the West, 4/13/2016, concerning ways to ourganize our Quaker meetings to increase their vitality.
A collection of quotations describing Quaker perspectives on corporate organization and governance.
An item-by-item comparison of points of advice from three yearly meetings' books of Faith and Practice (IMYM, NPYM, and PYM) concerning the right ordering of Quaker monthly meetings and th
Friend Joyce Zerwekh of Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland considers the difficulties that Quaker meetings face when they attempt to maintain committee structures from days gone by.
My family does a lot at our meeting. I currently serve as clerk of our First Day School Committee, co-clerk of our Kitchen Committee, and I also sit on our half-yearly meeting’s Continuing and Nominating Committees.
We simply can’t always speak out. But there are critical times within Friends’ communities when failing to speak truth can cause great damage. Trying not to offend, trying to maintain a surface calm, can cause a disastrous loss of trust and can betray our commitment to answering the Light in everyone. Often it enables cruel behavior to continue.
Dear Friends: The Nominating Committee of Palo Alto Friends Meeting has faced challenges recently in filling the position of Clerk of the Meeting and Recording Clerk. Two Friends have been sharing the Clerk position for what is now the third year.
