Quaker Religious Education Collaborative

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Sharing Circle: Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings

During the Christmas season and other holidays, Friends Meetings may celebrate as a way to experience wonder and light, rejoice in intergenerational community, and engage in cultural traditions. At the same time, we are called by the testimony of simplicity that is essential to Quaker faith and practice. We celebrate, in part, for the sake of children in our meeting and recognize that when the adult Friends who curate these celebrations are centered, the spiritual meaning comes through for children.

Talking with Children & Youth about the Presidential Election 2024

The intensity of the election cycle is an experience both for adults and for the children and youth in our families and communities. Depending on their age, preschoolers to teens may be aware of the anxiety in the adults around them — and experiencing their own anxiety about the outcome of the election in November. This article shares resources and support for adults caring for children and youth.

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Walking in the World as a Friend Community Practice Group

WALKING IN THE WORLD AS A FRIEND: ESSENTIAL QUAKER PRACTICES by Nadine Hoover provides a foundation for this Online Community Practice Group beginning Monday, Sept 16, 2024. We meet monthly on third Mondays, Sept – Nov to enrich adult Quaker Religious Education for ourselves and our meetings/churches.

Practices like journaling and spiritual companions help us live into the roles of minister, steward and witness, as we tend the inward life (minister), align our outward lives to our inward life (steward), and let our lives speak and tell truths we know, publicly (witness).

Spiritual Companion Group Gatherings

These gatherings are for people who meet as companions (of 2-4 members) mutually committed to experiment with allowing the Living Spirit to guide and shape their lives, as expressed in their own words.

Valiant Together: Sharing Quaker Religious Education Support and Resources

Like the Valiant 60 of Quaker history, Quaker religious educators (RE) are reaching out through a Facebook group to connect, share resources and ask questions of one another. Spirit is rising!

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QREC slide show introducing our work, our website and our library

Who We Are

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Mission

The Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) is a grassroots network of Friends holding a sense of stewardship for life-long Quaker faith formation through religious education. We include Friends from all branches of our international Quaker family. We welcome all Friends involved in religious education. Join us in forming a community of practice to share resources, skills, gifts, questions and insights, and to support each other in the ministry of Quaker faith formation.

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Purpose

The Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) seeks to link Friends with similar interest and needs, and to make Quaker religious education resources available.

Resource Library

Children’s Education

Youth Education

Adult Education

Small Meetings

General Search

Family

Young Adult Friends

African Quaker Library

Biblioteca QREC

Our Partners

Faith and Play Circle

Faith & Play

Quaker Stories of Faith, Practice, and Witness, used with the Godly Play® approach to spiritual formation.
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Friends Peace Teams

A Spirit-led organization working world-wide for justice and healing, creating enduring cultures of peace. 

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Friends World Committee for Consultation

Connecting Friends, Crossing Cultures, 
Changing Lives

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Quaker Parenting Initiative

Where Quaker faith and nurturing children come together

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