by Sita Diehl | November 10, 2025 | Children's Religious Education, Conversation Circles, Events, Home and Family, Quaker Friendly Songs, Resources, Small Meetings
WOULDN’T IT BE WONDERFUL IF THERE WAS A SHORT LIST OF SONGS THAT QUAKER CHILDREN COULD ALL SING WHEN WE GATHER? Singing together sweeps us up into the Spirit, opens our hearts, and builds the beloved community. Quaker songs are also an effective way to teach our...
by Sita Diehl | January 20, 2022 | Home and Family, Resources
These First Day School lessons teach Quaker faith and practice at home. Begun as a response to the covid-19 pandemic, lesson plans are offered by Providence Friends Meeting. Themes from fall, 2021 include: Native American faith compared to Quaker testimonies, Sibling...
by Sita Diehl | January 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Since the beginning of the Religious Society of Friends, we have found “the Light” to be a helpful way of talking about the Divine. Today, we often speak about “the Light within” and “holding each other in the Light,” but not all Friends know that the image of the...
by Sita Diehl | December 20, 2021 | Africa Quaker Library, Resources
What can we tell our children about Friends who have led lives of faith and witness to the glory of God? How can we capture the stories of our elders while they are still with us? This procedure was developed to gather oral histories from African Friends as part of...
by Sita Diehl | November 24, 2021 | Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Resources
Use this coloring page when the world seems to need brightening. Author and illustrator, Anne Nydam (Wellesley Meeting, NEYM), invites you to send colored pages for posting in her on-line gallery: Nydam Prints, Black and White Download the image Fill This Day with...
