Excerpts from the keynote presentation to Intermountain Yearly Meeting; June 9, 2016; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú, New Mexico
by Callid Keefe-Perry
It’s a pleasure to be with you all. I’ve been carrying you, without knowing any of your faces, for months. So it’s great to have faces attached to the carrying.
Transcript of keynote presentation made to the annual session of Intermountain Yearly Meeting on June 9, 2016.
The following two documents emerged from a conversation among Friends in the West, 8/10/2016, concerning ways to welcome newcomers into Quaker meetings.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West, 8/10/2016, concerning ways to welcome newcomers into Quaker meetings.
A collection of quotations describing Quaker perspectives on ways to welcome newcomers into Quaker meetings.
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.
Unabridged, lightly edited transcript of an interview that Western Friend conducted on February 12,2015, with Bill Brent, Coordinator of the New Meetings Project for Friends General Conference.
