Blogs from Yearly Meeting Gathering 2011

Friends at Yearly Meeting Gathering are blogging about their experiences of the week there - read about them here.

Posted on: 5 August 2011 | By: GilS

Yearly Meeting Gathering is coming to an end, and tomorrow we will all be taking off the badges we have been wearing all week and leaving Canterbury. Our badges have been our identity, allowing us to recognise and greet other YMGers. My badge has also reminded me where and when to go to my anchor group and has got me in to Rutherford for meals.

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Young Quakers talk of the Young People's Programme

Posted on: 5 August 2011 | By: Nikolas Dadson

I met with these very charming young people rather hurriedly. Again, sorry for the poor camera quality, my Flip video camera is jammed full of Helen Drewery and I can't get her out.

They were very willing to help, kindly gave me back some of the chocolate I gave them (for my kids to share) and then politely thanked me. If this is what YMG does for young people, I'm booking my kids on for next time!

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Sharing

Posted on: 5 August 2011 | By: AlisonB

R and I tried filling in a little evaluation card this morning. One question was about how you have been challenged this week. R's bottom lip wobbled as he re-lived a traumatic sharing/not sharing incident the day before 'When I was playing outside, and I didn't get a go with the spinning thing. Sharing is HARD'.

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Dealing with the buttons

Posted on: 4 August 2011 | By: clares

I know it's not just me that found this afternoon's session incredibly exciting, QF&P should be exciting. We made big changes to church government, We heard there have already been three Quaker same sex marriages, and movingly from one of the registering officers involved.

And we made some significant changes on membership too - for the first time QF&P is explicit that we can admit members who need help to make that application but are not under 16. Equality in action, we hope so.

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Meeting

Posted on: 4 August 2011 | By: AlisonB

Some more beach toes! We went to the beach yesterday and it was gorgeous. We met someone on the bus who had a blue biro cross on a map we she'd heard was the location of a Quaker beachhut. Someone else thought it might be No. 19. And it was! we wandered through housing estates and woodlands then emerged to find a small branch of YMG had congregated, enjoying tea, squash and flapjacks with the occasional dip in the sea, all rather idyllic. I also managed to speak to two new YM people. I may yet make my lower target of 3.

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