The new Platypus Collaborative of QREC will be connect Friends who exist in between binary categories: emerging monthly and yearly meetings that don't clearly fit within the existing branches and support organizations of Quakerism, nonbinary individuals, and Quakers...
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Conversation Circle on Adult Education
Intro to Quakerism: Adult education People may come to the Society of Friends for silent worship, social testimony or caring community, then seek opportunities for deeper study of Quakerism. Join this conversation to engage authors and experienced adult educators on...
Weaving Quaker Activists into First Day Schools, a project of the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative
Make your Quaker Religious Education come alive! Weave Quaker Activists into your lesson plans bringing a fresh, contemporary voice of lived Quakerism to your Friends Meeting or Church. Use digital technology to invite the world into your classroom in the person of a...
QREC Support for Unstaffed Yearly Meetings
Quaker Religious Education Collaborative Fall, 2019 Dear Friends: Warm greetings from the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC). We are an international, crossbranch, grassroots community of practice carrying a stewardship for lifelong Quaker...
QREC Bylaws
Bylaws for Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) ARTICLE I. Name The name of this organization shall be "Quaker Religious Education Collaborative" (QREC). ARTICLE II. Purpose QREC is organized exclusively for religious and educational purposes under section...
Tell Us What You Did for World Quaker Day, October 6, 2019
This year’s World Quaker Day theme was Sustainability: Planting Seeds of Renewal for the World We Love. How did you celebrate World Quaker Day in your meeting or church? Submit your report by email: submit@worldquakerday.org. Did...
2019 QREC Annual Conference and Retreat Report
Warm greetings! We had a wonderful annual conference in August at Powell House with 31 Friends from 14 yearly meetings. The minutes from our business meeting include the following: Friends approved Kody Hersh (SEYM) to serve on the Steering Circle, and...
Campus Ministry – September Conversation Circles
Quaker Campus Ministry: Offering guidance and community in the manner of Friends. College is a time of seeking: to explore truth, to discern values and to connect with others. Students may also feel overwhelmed and isolate from the life they have known. Quaker...
Conversation Circles, Quakerism for Youth: Coming of Age in the Society of Friends
Youth is a time of intense inquiry into identity, gifts and one’s place in the world. Yet all too often, just as young Friends become truly ready for critical thinking and engagement in society, their participation in Quaker community wanes. Join this online...
2019 QREC Annual Conference Registration Confirmation and Fees
THANKS FOR REGISTERING! 2019 Quaker RE Collaborative Conference and Retreat Powell House, Old Chatham, NY, USA 4pm Friday, August 9 to 1pm Sunday, August 11, 2019 ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ Please calculate...
Conversation Circles on Quaker Parenting, April 23 & 25th
Raising children challenges us to the core but can also be immensely rewarding. Join this conversation with members of the Quaker Parenting Initiative (QPI) to explore how a uniquely Quaker approach to childrearing can help Friends frame parenting as part of their...
Past Annual Conferences
Find information about the 2018 QREC Conference and Retreat HERE.
QREC 2019 Conference and Retreat, August 9 – 11
Claiming the Living Roots of our Faith ‚ô¶ August 9-11, 2019 at Powell House in Old Chatham, NY ‚ô¶ Warm greetings! We had a wonderful annual conference in August at Powell House with 31 Friends from 14 yearly meetings. The minutes from our...
February Conversation Circles: Lent, Easter, Passover. Quakers and the Sacred Spring
Drawing on the ancient themes of death, rebirth and resurrection, how can we, as religious educators lift up a Quaker understanding of Lent, Easter and Passover? The mystery of this season, while not easy to enter, can lead to personal and social transformation...
January Conversation Circles, Social Justice and Action in Quaker RE: From the Classroom into the World
As Friends, we are at our best when we live the testimonies fully with faith and courage; when we embrace our faith and practice to advocate for truth, justice and peace. Join this conversation to explore how we, as Quaker religious educators, can inspire young...
November Conversation Circle: RE Resources for the Holidays
November Conversation Circles: Friendly Resources for the Holiday Season As the Christmas season approaches, we're bombarded with messages from the world around us. How can we, in Friends meetings and schools, help Quaker families and children celebrate the...
Quaker Meeting and Me
Quaker Meeting and Me UNPROGRAMMED VERSION PRESENTLY OUT OF PRINT! PROGRAMMED VERSION STILL AVAILABLE! 2 versions, both bilingual (Spanish and English), one for unprogrammed and one for programmed traditions, same beautiful art by Rebecca Price in both versions or...
Friends in Bolivia enjoying “Quaker Meeting and Me!”
Centro Bilingue International Amigos posted: Helping with the special Meeting for worship this weekend in the city El Alto. May the Lord bless all the children! For more information about Quaker Meeting and Me in two versions, programmed and...
Infusing Racial Justice into Our Quaker Spiritual Formation and Religious Education
The first session took place on Saturday, April, 28, 2018 with Friends from around the country participating. Please contact Beth Collea (recoord@neym.org) for more information. Now a virtual conference with the first session April 28, 2018...
Peace Notes: A Quaker Lesson on Witnessing for Peace
Writing simple peace notes to President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un Is a basic witness for Peace and witness to our shared humanity. Models one way to take an active role in world events! Operationalizes our belief that there is that of God in...
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Quaker Camps 2020
Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities. Many have subsidies for low-income and members of Friends meetings. Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps Catoctin....
(A start on) Children & Youth Resources for Exploring Racism & Racial Justice
As we face the challenge of finding and creating resources to teach about racism and racial justice to Quaker children and youth, Melinda Wenner Bradley shares this in-process, well annotated list of queries, websites, blogs, online articles, curricula, and...
Join and Contribute to QREC
Since its founding in 2014, over 300 Quaker religious education practitioners from 20 yearly meetings have joined hands under the QREC tree in an international community of practice. Join us in this work and contribute at the level you are able. Click here to complete...
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An Introduction
The Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC) is an international, cross-branch, grassroots network of Friends sharing a stewardship for lifelong Quaker faith formation through religious education. We formed in April 2014 and now serve more than 300 Friends in our network. We actively engage and support each other across languages and continents. We gather for regional and annual conferences and offer monthly Conversation Circles via an online conferencing platform.
Steering Circle
We share leadership as part of our collaborative mission, making decisions using the Quaker ‘sense of the meeting’ process, sitting in expectant, worshipful waiting for the emergence of shared truth. Read more…
Working Circles
Our work takes place in ‘circles’ or small groups of Friends who labor on a common task, usually meeting by video conference due to the geographic diversity of the membership. Read more…
The Resource Library
Finders Guide, a sampling of the collection
The QREC Resource Library is a place to share lessons and other educational information in support of our work as Quaker religious educators. This library is a forum for curricula, articles, videos and other educational materials on Quaker themes. You will also find principles, policies and procedures to strengthen operation of your child, youth and adult religious education programs.
Children’s Education
Adult Education
Family
African Quaker Library
Youth Education
Small Meetings
Young Adult Friends
Biblioteca QREC
Events
Find renewal, companionship, and help for nitty gritty issues in Quaker religious education, all the while opening spaces for Spirit to work and listening together for God’s way forward.
QREC holds an annual conference and retreat. In addition we hold online Conversation Circles and post other religious education events as we learn about them.
Conversation Circles
Online conferences for Quaker religious educators to share about their work. Conversations are scheduled for two sessions per topic to encourage international participation. Join the conversation…
Other Events
Religious education events of interest to Quakers from all parts of the world. Please let us know about upcoming online or in-person events happening in your area. See the list of upcoming events…
Love at the Heart
Spiritual Practices
Discernment
Active Caring
Quaker Family Culture
Finding the Light
Faith at Home
Home is the heart of faith formation for all families. This is especially true for Friends. As an experiential religion, Quakerism is best learned through living in loving community. Indeed, the vast majority of faith formation for our young Friends happens at home in the busy swirl of daily life.
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Get Involved
QREC depends on all of us sharing our gifts and skills as religious educators. Here are some of the ways you can get involved…