In the season of Christmas and festivals of light, we consider how to celebrate in the manner of Friends: How do we approach this season as Friends? What can we share with Quaker religious education colleagues from our experience? What can we share with families in...
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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.
Walking in the World as a Friend Practice & Discussion Group
WALKING IN THE WORLD AS A FRIEND: ESSENTIAL QUAKER PRACTICES by Nadine Hoover lays out the three jobs all Friends take on when we begin to follow the Quaker path–minister, steward, and witness.
Practices like journaling and spiritual companions help us live into these roles 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).
Summary: Paid Religious Education (RE) Staff in Quaker Meetings
Conversations to help meetings discern the value of paid religious education staff in ministry for children and families.
Highlights from QREC’s 2021-2022 Work and Ministry
The Quaker Religious Education Collaborative, across regions and cultures, stepped up in robust, faithful ways to listen, discern, and serve some of the emerging needs of our community of practice during this second year of the pandemic. We drew on our creativity and...
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!
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...
Introductory Slide Show
QREC slide show introducing our work, our website and our library