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The Right Shop
Aug. 30th, 2024 07:47 am A woman dropped by the Meeting House yesterday morning- and joined us for worship- because she'd been reading a novel about Quakers by Tracey Chevalier and wanted to find out more. "You've come to the right shop," I said...
Trish and I were talking on Sunday and saying we needed to do all we could to keep our Meeting Houses open. There are several reasons for this but one of them is so there are identifiable places where we can be contacted and talked to and our ethos and spirituality sampled. Sure, you can find out about Quakers online, but it's not the same.
One of the Meeting Houses in our area is in danger of shutting down. I'm told it has an active membership of six. The building is a mid-20th century chapel purchased from a noncomformist congregation that couldn't sustain itself. Trish was saying we ought to get out more and visit the other Quaker Meetings- in particular the ones that are struggling. I agree....
Trish and I were talking on Sunday and saying we needed to do all we could to keep our Meeting Houses open. There are several reasons for this but one of them is so there are identifiable places where we can be contacted and talked to and our ethos and spirituality sampled. Sure, you can find out about Quakers online, but it's not the same.
One of the Meeting Houses in our area is in danger of shutting down. I'm told it has an active membership of six. The building is a mid-20th century chapel purchased from a noncomformist congregation that couldn't sustain itself. Trish was saying we ought to get out more and visit the other Quaker Meetings- in particular the ones that are struggling. I agree....
