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17 April 2012

An ‘Exploration’ is a facilitated discussion day, based around a shared search for the best of what a meeting has, reflecting on its community, its spiritual life, its history, its present capacities and its future possibilities. After a successful first year, we are offering a further year of Exploration days to meetings, to run between September 2011 and August 2012.

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7 March 2012

The Religious Society of Friends is organised into local meetings, each of which should be a community. It is our search for God's way that has drawn us together.
(Quaker Faith and Practice, 10.03).

Here are some of the things we do to sustain the life and witness of our Society:

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7 March 2012

What is the Network?

Network diagram on blackboardThe Quaker Life Network is a continuing initiative from Quaker Life, bringing together Friends willing to help strengthen and sustain Friends and Meetings across the Yearly Meeting.

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6 March 2012

Quaker Life works to strengthen and sustain the fabric of Quaker life within our Yearly Meeting.

This work is currently focussed in six main areas:

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14 February 2012
The Quaker Life Network was launched 3 years ago. Richard Summers, General Secretary of Quaker Life, reflects on the experiences of these times.
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27 July 2011

What is it?

Quaker Life is offering meetings support in discovering and developing their gifts and strengths

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14 May 2010

Exploring and sharing the heart of our faith

More than 130 Quakers met in April at High Leigh, Hertfordshire for a Quaker Life conference to explore British Quaker identity and the heart of our shared faith. Participants said that they found it to be an engaging and inspiring weekend. We hope that the issues we engaged with will be taken up by meetings and explored at local or area level.

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11 May 2010
Michael Booth finds that some of his most rewarding work begins with a simple phone call. Part of his role as the Support for Meetings Officer in Quaker Life is to respond to issues around pastoral care – eldership and oversight. This means that he receives phone calls when things might not be going so well.

I never know what is going to happen next. Often it is a simple query, which just takes a couple of minutes to answer. Sometimes what emerges is the story of a situation that I need more time to consider. How I respond is important.

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