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The responsibility for running local and area Quaker meetings is held by their members. These pages offer information about the roles, and advice and support to the role-holders.
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All members are part of the clergy and have the clergy's responsibility for the maintenance of the meeting as a community.
- Quaker faith & practice 11.01
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The Quaker faith can sometimes appear to outsiders as a do it yourself religion. There are no paid ministers or clergy in Quaker meetings. The work of the meetings is carried out by Quaker Attenders and Members. This is done on a voluntary basis in most cases and is considered by Friends as ministry in the form of service.
Here is our guidance and support for:
Patterns and Examples events are online gatherings for anyone with a role or responsibility within a Quaker community. Each one will be an opportunity to meet Friends, make friends, share ideas and worries, develop your skills and build our Quaker communities.
We are holding four 2-hour events in Autumn 2020:
Week 1
Week 2
Sessions in week 1 will be repeated in week 2 allowing the opportunity to participate in up to four of the six workshops on offer.
For more information contact:
Workshop sessions will include:
Book online: www.quaker.org.uk/events/www.woodbrooke.org.uk/patterns-and-examples-2020
Read about patterns and examples events in the blog written following the gathering in Edinburgh in 2018.
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