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QREC Announces New Platypus Collaborative

QREC Announces New Platypus Collaborative

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

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...

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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...

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QREC Bylaws

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...

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2019 QREC Annual Conference and Retreat Report

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...

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Campus Ministry – September Conversation Circles

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...

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Conversation Circles on Quaker Parenting, April 23 & 25th

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...

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QREC 2019 Conference and Retreat, August 9 – 11

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...

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Quaker Meeting and Me

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...

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Peace Notes: A Quaker Lesson on Witnessing for Peace

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 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....

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Join and Contribute to QREC

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

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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

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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…