Mary-Jane Thornton

The New Normal – what should this look like? – Bristol Area Meeting Day Conference

Events

Saturday 16 October 10am – 1pm
Blended event at Redland Meeting House and on Zoom
With a Zoom plenary at 4pm

This year’s QPSW conference will focus on sustainability and social/ racial justice.

Keynote speaker Manu Maunganidze (environmental activist and educator) will offer a challenging perspective on ‘Decolonisation: responsibilities and priorities in a post-covid world’.

He will be followed by Roy Kareem, speaking on ‘Bristol’s Black and Green Ambassadors’.

There will be a short Q&A session after each speaker, then (after a break) small group discussions asking ‘How can Bristol Quakers be part of a just transition to a sustainable world?’.

We hope that as many Friends as possible will attend the morning conference at Redland Meeting House, from 10am – 1pm. There will also be a Zoom option for Friends who cannot come to the Meeting House, with an opportunity to hear the speakers and take part in the Q&A and in Zoom discussion groups. The conference is free and open to Quakers and non-Quakers.

Discussion group leaders will draft a minute of record which will be brought to a plenary Zoom session at 4pm. Everyone is welcome to this concluding session. After acceptance by the conference, our minute will be sent to Area Meeting in session, as a contribution towards shaping Bristol Quakers’ sustainability strategy.

During Saturday afternoon, the Quaker Teens Group will take part in a woodlands activity led jointly by Manu Maunganidze and Kirsty Philbrick at Boiling Wells (St Werburgh). The younger children will also link into the conference theme through a Sunday morning visit to Grow Wilder (17 October).

Please will all conference attenders register as soon as possible through Eventbrite, to help us plan the day: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/171814270107

Zoom details will be sent later to all registered participants.

Julia Bush, Nicky Coates, Graham Davey, Christopher Gwyntopher, Elinor Kershaw, Kate Taylor, Rosaleen Thayer (QPSW conference planning group)

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Reflect and Connect – A Quaker Day Conference

Events

Saturday 20 March 2021 on Zoom
10am to 2pm

A chance to reflect and share experiences of an extraordinary year in a supportive environment. The Quaker community, like others, has been engaged in many new and different activities during this time: ranging from small changes in personal practices, to carrying out tasks, learning crafts, caring and supporting others in new ways, to activism, learning, discussion and more. The conference will include:

  • Short talks
  • Informal chat in small groups
  • Quiet time
  • A chance to appreciate and have fun as well as look at the challenges
  • Discussion:
    – What has helped?
    – What has been difficult?
    – What discoveries have you made?
    – How does any of this influence our Quaker faith and practice?

submitted by Fiona Hamilton

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Holding in the light

Writings

At the December MfL on Holding in the Light I quoted a prayer which I often make before holding people in the Light. This is based a Buddhist prayer:

I hold [……] in the Light
May your Love enfold her
May your Strength uphold her
May your Light shine upon her
And your Peace surround her
Now and always

Claire Herford

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February Meeting for Learning

Events

All are welcome at our monthly Zoom Meetings for Learning – held at 10am on the 3rd Sunday of the month, finishing in time for a break before Meeting for Worship at 11. Usually about 20 Friends join us – some sharing their thoughts, others happy just to listen – there’s no pressure!

On Sunday 21 February our Friend Mary-Jane Thornton with set us off thinking about seeking that of God in everyone. Zoom details and further reminders are published in Notices.

We plan further sessions in the coming months on considering more well-known Quaker words and phrases, including what we mean by a ‘concern’. We also intend to focus on the key issue of the Quaker response to the climate crisis. Do join us! Further ideas and Friends to lead sessions are always welcome.

Linda Ewles
Coordinator, Learning & Action Hub

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Meeting for Learning – January

Events

What do Friends mean by …… ?

In  our monthly Meetings for Learning we’re sharing what we mean by familiar Quaker words and phrases.We’ve already focussed on Discernment, Worship, and Holding in the Light. In 2021 we’ll be thinking about other well-used words, such as Seeking that of God in everyone, Ministry, and Concern.

The next Meeting for Learning will be on Sunday 17 January, 10.am.on Zoom. Zoom details and further reminders are published in Notices.

Do come along and join in – all are welcome and there’s no pressure to speak if you don’t want to. It’s a good opportunity to explore aspects of being a Quaker today with other Friends and always provides food for thought.

Linda Ewles
Coordinator, Learning & Action Hub

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Becoming Friends – 2021

Courses

Do you know about Becoming Friends? Many have now met in groups over the years to share this study material, discovering and sharing about Quakers; history, practice, action and experience. Both those fairly new to Friends and those with more experience have been participants.

A new group will be formed in January 2021, meeting on Zoom for the first 4 sessions, then taking a time for reflection and hopefully reconvening for four more sessions in person.

A handbook accompanies the discussions and, if you join, we will arrange for you to have one of these in advance so that preparation reading and thinking can be done.

The dates for the first four Zoom meetings, all at 7.30pm, are:
• Jan 21st
• Feb 4th
• Feb 18th
• March 4th.

Interested? Do contact Christine Tollerton (christinetollerton@virginmedia.co.uk), Helen Chambers  (hchambers@googlemail.com) or Sue Tuckwell (suetuckwell@hotmail.com) to find out more.

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An Appeal for Grace in Uganda

Appeals

We have had appeals before in Redland Meeting for Grace Kiconco Sirrah’s work in prisons and reconciliation in Uganda. Because of Covid-19, Grace can no longer go into prisons or work with communities face-to-face, but could keep the work going remotely if she had a working computer. She has been using WhatsApp on her phone to send messages to prisoners, but says with a computer she could do a lot of training in the community. She provides training in conflict resolution, anger management, gender and development, and self esteem, according to need. This is for ex-prisoners, prisoners’ families and some youth and women’s groups in the community. She has researched computers locally and says she can get a good one second-hand for £250-350.

I contacted Computers4Africa, which provided a computer for her many years ago, but they are now Computers4Charity, focused exclusively on UK work. And Uganda apparently has a new law prohibiting the import of second-hand computers! Redland Meeting Appeals can only appeal for registered charities, not individuals, so the only way we can help is for people to send me a cheque made out to me (or a bank transfer – please ask for the details), and I will send her the money raised.

I hope we can support Grace in this way.

Thanks
Marian Liebmann

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What is your understanding of discernment?

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Our recent Meetings for Learning have started to look at some well known words which are often used within Quakers. To try and put my understanding of discernment into words was a real challenge!

In Quaker Faith and Practice, para 13.05 says “ We meet as we do because we believe that, gathered together, we are capable of greater clarity of vision”. For me that idea of clearer vision links to images associated with the word discernment, that speak of threshing, winnowing, sifting, finding the kernel ,and separating the wheat from the chaff.

So how do we go about practising discernment within Friends? Firstly I think discernment can be both an individual and corporate process. Individually, this could mean thinking and reflecting before acting, considering any actions in the light of our Testimonies, and asking for the listening ear of spiritual friends to thresh out a concern, idea or belief. Listening to others and ourselves, recognising prejudices, fears and hopes may well also play a part in the process, alongside holding ourselves in the Light until the vision is clearer.

Corporate discernment also involves listening to self and others and to the light within us. Contemporary Quakers often come into Friends from different traditions. When we travel we tend to take our language with us, and perhaps it behoves us to check our understanding of others’ words, so that our seeking can more often lead to unity rather than misunderstanding. We are helped to discern through knowing each other in things temporal and eternal.

I shared with Friends at the MfL that my experience of discernment can  also include physical reactions. Waiting and listening to self, others and holding that listening in the Light can lead to discomfort…..often a useful state as it offers a nudge to move or shift position! Discernment requires patience.

Discernment is a process not a fixed point in time. It can be an adventure, but may also disturb. We may need to become better informed about the matter in hand. We use the enquiring and rational part of ourselves. Add to that the emotional part of us; how we feel, past experiences or “messages”. Within Friends those two aspects are then drawn into worship; they are waited upon, held in the Light, communicated to each other in words or silently, and dropped into the pool of unknowing from which greater clarity can emerge. This for me is a place of faithfulness.

Sue Tuckwell   18-11-20

 

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…and an invitation to bake….!

CYP, Events

The children would like to invite anyone coming to the Redland Christmas Party on December 13 to make stained glass gingerbread biscuits beforehand and bring the end result along to the party to share (virtually, sadly). We hope the stained glass in the biscuits will represent the theme of Light which we have been looking at this Autumn term in children’s meeting, from Amnesty International’s candle to Bonfire Night and Diwali.

We will be using this recipe:

Gingerbread stained glass biscuits

Ingredients

  • 175g dark soft brown sugar 85g golden syrup
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 2-3 tsp ground ginger
  • 350g plain flour, plus extra to dust 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • clear fruit-flavoured boiled sweets (don’t use anything with a soft centre)
  • white icing, to decorate

You will need

  • star or snowflake cutters

Method

  1. Heat the sugar, golden syrup and butter in a pan until melted. Mix the ginger and flour in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the bicarbonate of soda to the melted mixture and stir – it will fizz a little – then pour into the flour mixture with the egg. Stir to combine. The mix will be soft but will firm up as it cools.
  2. Scoop the mixture into a box or fridge bag and chill for at least 1 hr until firm enough to roll out. The dough can be kept in the fridge for up to a week or frozen for three months.
  3. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and cut in half. Briefly knead the first piece, then roll it on a lightly floured surface to 2mm thick. Cut into shapes with snowflake or star cutters about 12cm across, then transfer to
  4. lined baking sheets, leaving a little room for them to spread. Cut a window out of each biscuit using another cutter about about 6cm across, then add a sweet to the centre.
  5. If the sweets are large, chop them up first – you’ll have to judge by the size of the hole. (Don’t be tempted to add too much or it will spill over the edge.) If you plan to hang the biscuits, make a small hole in the top of each one using the end of a piping nozzle (the hole will close up a little so make sure it’s big enough). Repeat with remaining dough.
  6. Bake in batches for 5-6 mins or until they darken slightly and the sweets have melted. If the holes have closed up, remake them while the biscuits are warm. Leave to cool and harden up completely before moving them. Don’t forget to bake the parts you’ve cut out, too! You can decorate the biscuits further by using white piped icing, if you like.

submitted by Cato Pedder

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Caring for our Meeting in a time of Covid

Reports

 A report from EWOs for MfB

Since lockdown started in March this year, the Meeting House has been closed for all business and worship: worship moved online for those with the technology to cope and our wardens retired at the end of April, vacating the house. It is fair to say that we are at an interesting point of change in our Meeting. We have decided to sell the wardens house and encourage trustees to use some of the money from the sale of the house in joining with another organisation to provide some accommodation for refugees. This will be a project that hopefully Redland and Area Friends will support.  With the knowledge that Quaker Meeting Houses in Bristol were built or renovated with money originally gained from involvement in the slave trade, there is an opportunity for us to make some form of reparation by using some of our resources today in a project working with refugees.

There are currently eight Elders with Oversight and we meet monthly online to share our care for the Meeting. We each have a range of experience and length of service as Quakers. At present, we have been working with the technology to ensure that all who are able, participate in online worship. As EWOs we are particularly concerned with the following:

  • Preparation for online worship and the inclusion of all who want to participate both at 11.0 am and at the Early MfW; thinking about members, visitors and those in our community who live some distance away.
  • Making sure that MfW is properly held and that ministry is appropriate and can happen either spoken or in silence.
  • Links and planning with the Children and Young Peoples Group as part of an all age community.
  • Thinking of interesting ways of extending fellowship across the All Age Community. Working with the Youth Development Worker and participating in online youth/all age activities.
  • The use of Sharing Circles as a vehicle for communication, pastoral care, and fellowship within Redland.
  • Being aware of the work of Weekly Committee and making referrals to them where appropriate.
  • Discussion with Funeral Advisors about funerals and memorial meetings.
  • Working with AM elders and Overseers from all six other meetings on issues raised about the care of our wider community; for example, visiting Quakers in hospital settings.
  • Keeping in contact with all those on the Redland part of the “Q” list, especially those who cannot or do not want to meet online.
  • Thinking about opportunities that may open up as a result of the pandemic – ways of communicating, holding meetings, making decisions.
  • Contributing to AM Spring conference; ref. Fiona’s offer to organise an online event in March.
  • Considering the impact of work on the Meeting House – triple glazed windows and new fire escape and corridor.
  • Considering the requirements of returning to the MH in line with legislation e.g. signage, non – use of kitchen facilities, one – way system, Covid cleaning, sanitisers, paper towels, bins with lids, Track and Trace requirements, door keepers, etc.
  • Requirements and physical installation of everything needed for blended worship, including cabling, improved loop amp., TV monitor and laptop, seating, wearing of masks.
  • Encouraging Friends to take up opportunities to learn, study, and share their knowledge and experience about Quakerism.

It has taken time for the newish group of EWOs to gel as an online group and get used to the different way of being. It is hard to generate that feeling of togetherness without some of the physical interaction, but this has been so for all Friends. However, we have managed to think creatively together about different ways of keeping in contact with Friends in the Meeting. In the coming weeks we will be thinking particularly about how we return to the Meeting House for blended worship, about how we are open to new enquirers and encourage them to attend; should we be holding an Enquirers Evening online?: about how we manage the tasks in the Meeting without a resident warden; above all we shall hope to be doing all this in a spirit of joy and friendship to help grow the community of Friends at Redland.

If you feel you have suggestions to offer in the Quaker way of worship or in the way in which EWOs offer their service ,communicate , or keep in touch please let us know: or if you have something in particular that you yourself could offer, please do not hide your light but let it be known to us.

Michael Tuckwell convener on behalf of EWOs
25th October 2020

 

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Sanctuary Housing Project

Business, Events

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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Meeting for Learning – December

Events

What do Friends mean by ‘Holding in the Light’?

This is what we’ll be talking about in Meeting for Learning this month. It’s the next in our series looking at key Quaker words and phrases and sharing what they mean for us.

Do come along and join in – all are welcome and there’s no pressure to speak if you don’t want to. It’s a good opportunity to explore aspects of being a Quaker today with other Friends and always provides food for thought.

Claire Herford is going to start us off with her thoughts on Holding in the Light, on Sunday 20 December, 10am to 10.45, on Zoom.
Zoom details and further reminders are published in Notices.

Linda Ewles
Coordinator, Learning & Action Hub

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Forthcoming courses at Woodbrooke

Courses

The Quaker Study Centre at Woodbrooke is offering several online courses over the next few months:

Full details on the Courses page of the Woodbrooke website, or follow the links above. While you are there, why not sign up for the regular newsletter to stay up to date with new courses and other activities? And remember that financial support is available from Redland Meeting to help with course fees – contact the treasurer at redland.treasurer@bristolquakers.org.uk to find out more.

Richard Hull Woodbrooke Link

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The Peaceful Schools Project 

Articles
An opportunity for Bristol Quakers

Learn how to deliver the project in an on-line workshop, via Zoom, for six hours over six weeks. The aim is to build our skills and confidence to deliver the Peaceful Schools project to primary schools in Bristol.

About the programme

The Peaceful Schools Project was an initiative of Mid-Wales Area Quaker Meeting, but it is not about Quakerism. It is a response to the culture of violence and hostility in society, as evidenced in violent video games, and as expressed in bullying in our schools and on our streets. Its aim is to create a peaceful atmosphere in schools where pupils treat each other with respect, work co- operatively, and resolve problems constructively.

The project has developed as a 6-hour programme to be delivered in 1 hour sessions over 6 weeks, or as an intensive programme in 1 week. Initially, ground rules are established – listening, respecting, sharing, and confidentiality. This is followed by basic conflict resolution work, starting with the individual and working outwards – feeling OK about ourselves, handling our own anger, being aware of how overlapping and complex ‘in-groups’ and ‘out-groups’ are; then moving to handling bullying and other people’s anger and aggression. The students are encouraged to develop an awareness of different perceptions of situations and to recognise the challenges of decision-making, as well as the potential of co- operation and mediation. Much of the work is done in circle time, or in small groups. By using a mixture of talking, sharing, exercises and games, as well as quiet periods and mindful breathing, the pupils develop the skills to handle their own stresses. Stories are used to focus attention on particular issues. The form staff are present and engaged with the programme.

The programme has been well received by schools and the local inspectorate. It is offered free to schools and is focused on primary years (3, 4, 5 and 6). Although a very minor input to the school week, feedback from the 85 programmes delivered so far show that the work extends further, both because teachers pick up on the approach and because the children refer back to it.

Since schools re-opened, there has been a great deal of interest in continuing to use the programme, especially because teachers have increased concerns about pupils’ mental wellbeing. Because of health and safety restrictions, going into schools is more difficult for volunteers, so the programme is being modified in order that it can be delivered via Zoom.

The programme in Bristol

Helen Porter, who has been involved in the Peaceful Schools project from the start, has offered to run a series of Zoom workshops, initially to take us through the programme and then to introduce the skills and techniques volunteers have found helpful. She is offering a course of hour-long sessions, one a week for six weeks, with the possibility of some extra sessions if necessary. The aim is to train adults sufficiently to run the programme. There are no costs involved, although Helen may recommend some books and materials we would find useful. We would like to run the course with a group of 8 – 10 people.

How to sign up

Please get in touch with Jenni Harris at jennikester@yahoo.co.uk

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Pacifism and Pandemic – Life and Times of a committed social reformer

Articles, Writings

A Quiet Bristolian
Paul D Sturge 1891-1974

First warden of the Bristol Folk House

“The Sturge family are one of the most prominent in Bristol’s history, active in local business as estate agents and surveyors. As Quakers, many members were also known as social reformers and pacifists. One of the most remarkable was Paul Dudley Sturge (1891-1974) whose many achievements included a part in setting up the Youth Hostels Association and the Bristol Folk House, which marks its centenary this year.”  The Bristol Times: 

In A Quiet Bristolian, Roger Sturge traces the life and times of his father.

Click on the cover below for a downloadable copy of the booklet.

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Anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Climate

Articles

A letter from Bristol Christian Climate Action to all churches in Bristol:

Dear Friends,

The weekend of 12th/13th December is the 5th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement on Climate (at COP21), when almost all nations promised to keep global temperatures well below 2°C of historic levels, and if possible to no more than 1.5 degrees.

You may or may not have gathered, in the newspaper euphoria, that the promises made by governments at the time would have resulted in 3.5 degrees of warming, even if the “voluntary commitments” were really implemented.

The idea was to come back in 5 years time (at COP26 in Glasgow) with planned carbon reductions that would achieve the temperature target.  This meeting will take place in November 2021 in Glasgow.

But, the problem is, that no country, not even the UK which considers itself a leader on Climate Change, has plans that get anywhere near the carbon cuts that are needed to keep global temperature rises to the Paris Agreement 1.5 degrees  hopes [1].  Net Zero by 2050 targets might sound impressive, but climate Scientists , and the UK’s official Committee that provides the budgets, are increasingly insistent that swift, steep cuts to greenhouse gases are needed to avoid the worst climate, ecological and human emergency.   The 10 point plan recently announced by the Government is woefully insufficient.

As Christians in this church you are doing your best to follow Jesus and help your neighbours, and in these difficult times, we are not wanting to add to anyone’s anxieties. It is not the ordinary “person in the pew” just managing to keep heads above water in the “Covid situation”, who bears the primary responsibility or ability to form a new green economy.  It is governments.  But, there is one thing that you COULD do this week, to help our global neighbours who suffer most from flood, fire and harvest failure right now, and our young people who are going to live through the consequences of this generation’s actions.

We are asking you to write to or email your MP and ask them to support the new Climate and Ecological Emergence Bill (https://www.ceebill.uk/). This is a private members bill.  It was presented to Parliament in September, supported by a cross party group of MP’s.  It will be debated next March  and will need a large number of MPs from all parties to vote it into law.

The Climate Change Act 2008 was ground breaking in its day, but its targets will NOT reduce emissions enough to nurture and restore the earth God gave us, or provide safety, food and life for our neighbours or our children’s children.

If you have time, and feel a calling to join with other Christians in Bristol to work together on climate justice , do contact us through email – christianclimateactionbristol@gmail.com or facebook  Covid restrictions at the time permitting, Bristol Christian Climate Action will be marking the 5th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement.  If you would like to join us, please contact us as above.

Thank you very much for reading this.

Members of Bristol Christian Climate Action

submitted by Gaie Delap

References

[1] Anderson K, Broderick J.F., Stoddard I. (2020) A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways. Climate Policy 20 1290-1304. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1728209

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Redland Meeting Memorial Book

Uncategorized

We remember the following members of our meeting who died in December:

Eva Upperton     27/12/92

Barbara McIntosh     4/12/93

Kathleen Waller     8/12/93

Winifred Daws     17/12/93

Don Ball     14/12/95

Doris Young     8/12/98

Michael Street     1/12/00

Elizabeth Scott     12/12/09

Joyce Goss     12/12/10

Elizabeth Boss     8/12/17

Audrey Marks     9/12/17

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A Redland Christmas in 2020

Events

Please remember the Christmas Sharing Tea Party at 4pm on Sunday, 13th December.  Wear your glad rags and bring some joyfulness and mince pies!  We will be listening to songs, singing songs, playing games and listening to some poems and readings.  Mark Smalley will be our compere.  So, come along on Zoom and share this festive time with your friends.  (Zoom details will be available via the notices closer to the 13th.)

We have lots going on, but more offerings of entertainment are always welcome – just contact me at: christinetollerton@virginmedia.com

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Meeting for Learning – November

Events

What do Friends mean by ….? 

This month’s Meeting for Learning on Zoom is on Sunday 15 November, 10am 

Last month we started a new series of Meetings for Learning, looking at familiar Quaker words and phrases and sharing what they mean for us.

We focussed on Worship in October, and 16 Friends met on Zoom to share a wide range of reflections. Worship clearly meant many different things to different Friends and hearing about other people’s interpretations, beliefs and experiences was enriching and thought-provoking. As one Friend commented afterwards:  It was lovely listening to others, and I’m looking forward to the next one! 

In November we’ll be continuing with another well-used word or phrase, selected from, for example, Discernment, That of God in Everyone, Holding in the Light, Living Your Beliefs, Being Led.

Do come along and join in – all are welcome and there’s no pressure to speak if you don’t want to. Further details, including the Zoom link, will be published in Notices.

And do get in touch if you would be willing to lead a Meeting for Learning – you’re not expected to be an expert, just prepared to share a few thoughts for about ten minutes to get the ball rolling.

Linda Ewles
Coordinator, Learning & Action Hub

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Virtual Sharing Lunch

Events, Uncategorized

November 8th at 1pm

In October we had a very interesting lunchtime conversation about Julian Wood’s Art of Kindness project, and in November we plan to have an open conversation together about how lockdown may have changed us. There are so many ways to think about this, so do come along (via the Zoom link which will be in the Notices) , bring your lunch, and spend an hour with Friends reflecting on this year’s experiences.

submitted by Sue Tuckwell

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Annual Quaker Business Conference: Making Values Visible

Business, Events, Uncategorized

Making Values Visible: what Quakerism can bring to business, and what business can bring to Quakers

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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A Redland Christmas in 2020

Events

In a spirit of conviviality we invite you to present yourself in a joyous way to our Christmas 2020 sharing tea at 4pm on Sunday, 13th December. We had thought that a sharing Christmas lunch in front of our computers might be a bit messy! So perhaps tea and mince pies or cake instead?

Suggestions so far are that we all dress up in a Christmassy way, decorating ourselves and our surroundings. Bring a poem or a song or game to share. The collective creation of a story, phrase by phrase or a poem, line by line. Finger puppets?

We would like as many people as possible to take part. If you have ideas to share about this please contact me, Christine Tollerton, at: christinetollerton@virginmedia.com

 

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