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Conscientious Objection: How can Quaker Meetings support our youth? A Conversation Circle

Conscientious Objection: How can Quaker Meetings support our youth? A Conversation Circle

Support for youth to discern conscientious objection is a vital ministry for Quaker meetings. The teen years are the best time to start documentation for a CO claim in the U.S. because Selective Service registration is required of all 18-year-old males, and perhaps females in the future. Beyond that, the peace testimony is central to Quaker identity, making education about conscientious objection paramount for Quaker teens.

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Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings, Summary

Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings, Summary

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.

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Summary: Religious Education (RE) Committees

Summary: Religious Education (RE) Committees

Serving on the religious education committee is a contribution to the meeting, a spiritual practice, a way to be truly present with Friends, and a calling to nurture spiritual growth among Friends of all ages. Join this conversation to share experiences, challenges and practices for Quaker RE committees.

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Conversation Circles: Welcoming Families to Quaker Community

Conversation Circles: Welcoming Families to Quaker Community

Raising children to lead kind, respectful, creative lives is challenging. In today’s fast paced world, it is easy for parents and caregivers to feel buffeted by hurried schedules, multiple demands and our technology-driven culture. Join these conversations to explore how your Meeting can welcome, engage and nurture families.

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Listening Circle: Inviting Children’s Participation in Worship

Listening Circle: Inviting Children’s Participation in Worship

Join these listening circles to explore children’s participation in Quaker Meeting for Worship. These conversations will support a Friend’s seminary research from which will emerge a guide for how to be an intergenerational spiritual community and how to encourage reciprocity across generations.

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QREC 2023 Annual Conference November 3-5

QREC 2023 Annual Conference November 3-5

Join the QREC 2023 Annual Conference in-person in Winchester, Indiana or online around the Quaker world. Celebrate and strengthen our work and ministry as Quaker spiritual nurturers and faith formation guides.

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Conscientious Objection: Is this for you?

Conscientious Objection: Is this for you?

Two interactive online sessions to help young Friends consider: 1. functions of the US military; 2. how Selective Service System (SSS) works, and; 3. how to seek conscientious objector (CO) status and alternative service. Young Friends will hear from Friends who sought CO status during previous US wars.

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Walking With the Bible Series

Walking With the Bible Series

Beacon Hill Friends House offered a series of 9 monthly online Bible sessions led by North American Bible leaders from a variety of backgrounds from October 2020 through June 2021 in cooperation with Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center. Beacon Hill also offered three...

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