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Pastoral Care

Pastoral Care/Eldership & Oversight: caring for the people, caring for the meeting

Every meeting needs people to care for its well-being and try to see that:…(read more)


Resources for eldership and oversight

For the fullest guidance on the whole topic of eldership and oversight, read Quaker faith and practice, Chapter 12.

The following practical handbooks are available from the Quaker Bookshop(read more)


The Boundaries game

Quakers have many unwritten and often unspoken ‘rules’. When, for example, do we explain to people that speaking more than once in meeting is not normally acceptable? Unwritten rules can be powerful.…(read more)