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We spent most of yesterday playing at being Quakers. We were at our own Meeting in the morning and over in Uckfield (careful how you say it) for the Area Meeting in the afternoon. Ailz breezed into the hall and told the clerk, "You can start now, Eastbourne's here!"
The clerk was having difficulty with her acronyms. It became a sort of running gag. The one she mostly kept stumbling over was BMHWP- which stands for Bexhill Meeting House Working Party.
The Bexhill Meeting is down to three or four, can't attract new people and occupies a fair-sized, mid 20th century building which isn't generating any income. Is this a luxury we can afford or not? That's what the BMHWP is tasked to "discern".
The second part of the afternoon was spent on an exercise called "Why do we keep on coming to the Quaker Meeting?" with people standing up, one by one, as moved by the Spirit, to give their reasons. I was tempted to say, adapting Churchill on Democracy, "Because it's the very worst of faith groups apart from all the rest" but in the event said something less facetious instead.....
The clerk was having difficulty with her acronyms. It became a sort of running gag. The one she mostly kept stumbling over was BMHWP- which stands for Bexhill Meeting House Working Party.
The Bexhill Meeting is down to three or four, can't attract new people and occupies a fair-sized, mid 20th century building which isn't generating any income. Is this a luxury we can afford or not? That's what the BMHWP is tasked to "discern".
The second part of the afternoon was spent on an exercise called "Why do we keep on coming to the Quaker Meeting?" with people standing up, one by one, as moved by the Spirit, to give their reasons. I was tempted to say, adapting Churchill on Democracy, "Because it's the very worst of faith groups apart from all the rest" but in the event said something less facetious instead.....
