a part of Bristol Area Meeting
(all on Sundays, 12.30pm)
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Redland Friends have a longstanding concern for people seeking sanctuary. We are part of a Quaker network of nearly 100 Sanctuary Meetings and the proposed Sanctuary Housing Project builds upon our earlier refugee work. A planning group is drawing up a proposal to use some of the money released from the sale of the former wardens’ house to purchase a property which would be suitable for housing refugees in Bristol. Rather than attempting to reinvent the wheel, we propose forming a partnership with ACH (formerly Ashley Community Housing – www.ach.org.uk). Bristol Area Meeting would buy a suitable house and lease it to ACH. This well-established social enterprise company rents affordable accommodation to refugees and supports their full integration into British society.
If you would like to hear more about this proposal, please join a special Zoom meeting with the ACH manager, Fuad Mahamed, on Monday 7 December at 6.30pm.
All Redland Friends will receive a draft project proposal with their Redland weekly notices on 27 November. We hope you will bring along your questions on 7 December, so that we will have all the information we need when the matter comes to Redland LM in the New Year. If the Sanctuary Housing Project proposal is supported by Redland Meeting, it will then go forward to Bristol Area Meeting for discernment and decision.
You can find he Zoom link for the 7 December meeting in the Notices.
Sanctuary Housing Project planning group: Susana Askew, Caroline Beatty, Julia Bush, Marian Liebmann, Sue Tuckwell, Chris Watkins
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6th – 7th November
Free to attend on Zoom for Quakers and non-Quakers
Join us for lively conversations, meaningful connections, and powerful stories from Quaker and non-Quaker business owners from both large companies and small businesses. We look forward to discovering the common themes in your experience of business with those of our speakers and the role Quakerism plays in the world of work today.
The conference takes place over two days with discussions and plenaries to join each day:
Day one, Friday 6th:
What Quakerism can Bring to Business – The impact of Quaker principles, values and practices
Day two, Saturday 7th:
What Business can Bring to Quakers – Is ‘business’ a dirty word?
For more information and/or to sign up, click here
submitted by Sanni Kruger
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Q F and P 10.27.
Are there not different states, different degrees, different growths, different places?…..Therefore, watch every one to feel and know his own place and service in the body, and to be sensible to the gifts, places and services of others, that the Lord may be honoured in all, and every one owned and honoured in the Lord and no otherwise.
Isaac Penington 1667
The task of Funeral Adviser may be one of the roles within our meeting that is less well known. Our local Nominations Committee discern a name or names when needed, and the role is then an appointment of Area Meeting.
First and foremost is the care of any bereaved person or family in the Meeting who seeks our help. This of course is also something many in the meeting may offer, but the Funeral Adviser has a particular role in helping to spend time with the bereaved in thinking about the funeral or Memorial Meeting arrangements, and then, if wanted, to work with Elders with Oversight towards the holding of the funeral or Memorial Meeting in the manner of Friends.
There may be a need to liaise with Funeral Directors and with Crematoria, and of course we have our own Quaker Burial Grounds where links will be with the Custodian of those sites.One of the Funeral Advisers will generally conduct the ceremony at the Crematorium or Burial Ground. Those who have performed this service experience it as a great privilege.Quite often there will be those attending a Quaker funeral who are not familiar with our processes, so there is also a role in explaining these and helping all present to feel comfortable and able to take part.
During this current lockdown period Funeral Advisers from all the Meetings in the Bristol Area have been meeting regularly on Zoom to support each other and share information about current guidance. This has been a strengthening experience for us all, as we are encouraged to call on the counsel and help of our fellow Advisers, and of course can contact Friends House if particular information or advice is needed.
There are currently three Advisers at Redland, but we are seeking another one to strengthen the team. We do not know when we may be needed, but we need Friends to be ready to respond. If this short piece prompts you to know more please do contact one of us to get more information.
There is good material available to help in carrying out this role. In the task description there are three characteristics which are considered desirable. They are sensitivity, diplomacy and tact.
Roger Sturge, Mel Macintosh and Sue Tuckwell
Current Funeral Advisers at Redland
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This subject has been discussed at Redland Local Meeting for Business and at Bristol Area Meeting. Discernment continues and all Redland Quakers are encouraged to make their contribution to finding the best way forward. There will be a special Threshing Meeting for Redland Friends and the Wardens Planning Group on Monday 24 August, 7.30-9pm. All Friends are invited to attend and to share their views on the prospective sale, or to send in written contributions if unable to attend. A paper summarising pros and cons of the proposed sale will be circulated in advance of this date, so that everyone in our Meeting is made aware of key information and varied opinions on the options available to Area Meeting (which owns the warden’s house, and our Meeting House). Redland Meeting will need to offer clear guidance to Area Meeting from our next Business meeting on 6 September, 12.40-2pm.
Proposed sale of the Redland Warden’s House Read More »