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Sharing Circle: Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings

Sharing Circle: Experiments in Celebration and Simplicity in Quaker Meetings

Nov 10, 2024

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.

Using Arts in Quaker Religious Education (RE) Practices and Programming

Using Arts in Quaker Religious Education (RE) Practices and Programming

Feb 13, 2024

Explore how the arts complement, enrich, and strengthen our practices and programs. They add new dimensions to creative reflection and open joyful opportunities for building intergenerational community. This presentation was originally given during the 2023 QREC...

Using the Arts in our Practices and Programming

Using the Arts in our Practices and Programming

Feb 13, 2024

Learn about using arts in Quaker Religious Education (RE) practices and programming in this presentation by Laura MacNorlin from the 2023 QREC Annual Conference.

Seeking Wonder and Light in the Christmas Season

Seeking Wonder and Light in the Christmas Season

Nov 29, 2023

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...

Service Learning Guidelines for High School Students

Service Learning Guidelines for High School Students

Sep 4, 2023

Maryland was the first state in the U.S. to mandate service learning for high school students. Service learning is a teaching method that combines meaningful service to the community with curriculum-based learning. Students improve their academic skills by applying...

Quaker Time Machine: An intergenerational exploration of historical Friends

Quaker Time Machine: An intergenerational exploration of historical Friends

Apr 19, 2022

Friends, young and old, play through Quaker history in this hands-on exploration of historical Friends from George Fox to present-day Friends in your monthly meeting. Adult volunteers prepare for the class by studying a historical Friend to prepare for role-playing in...

Candle Prayer (for Friends of all ages)

Candle Prayer (for Friends of all ages)

Jan 5, 2022

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...

Fill This Day With Love — Coloring Page

Fill This Day With Love — Coloring Page

Nov 24, 2021

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...

Sometimes People March

Sometimes People March

May 6, 2021

Simple, direct statements are paired with watercolor illustrations to highlight some of the rallying causes for organized marches throughout the history of the United States. The text and art begin with two marches that will reemerge as metaphor later in the book: a...

Quaker Affirmations

Quaker Affirmations

Jan 25, 2021

Celebrating What’s Already True About Your Children The Quaker emphasis on Truth creates a wonderful jumping off point for conversations with children about special capacities they have (spiritual gifts) and ways those gifts help them to engage with others in ways...

Passages: A Guide to Developing a Coming-of-Age Program

Passages: A Guide to Developing a Coming-of-Age Program

Jul 30, 2020

Many faiths mark the transition of young people to teenage/adult status with a special process: learning, performance or ceremony. Quakers do not have a particular tradition for doing this. Some Friends have felt a yearning to honor this transition within their...

Parable of the Talents, Friends Squash Project

Parable of the Talents, Friends Squash Project

Jul 3, 2020

This article is a modern enactment of the parable of the talents, and speaks to what can be done together with the right leading. I am trying to remember the Hubbard squash seeds. Did they arrive in my childhood, sixty years ago? I am not sure. I surely remember...

The Gardener

The Gardener

Jun 2, 2020

Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the...

Family Worship Pamphlet

Family Worship Pamphlet

Jun 2, 2020

What a challenge our form of worship is for children! Even if you just consider the visuals — "still forms on every side" — it looks like a room full of adults either falling asleep or being punished with a time out. How can we help our children feel the depth, the...

Home Religious Education Guide – Sharing Our Gifts

Home Religious Education Guide – Sharing Our Gifts

Apr 11, 2020

Activities to Pair with Books and Music HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE Please use these ideas in ways that work best for your children. The Concepts listed and Bible Readings are for grown-up background material to support you. Reading aloud the book together, or watching...

Meeting Needs and Friends General Conference (FGC) Resources

Dec 11, 2019

Meeting Needs linked with FGC Resources: A Sampling (Bolded words can be put into a search engine like Google this way — “FGC clearness committees”, or "FGC outreach” for example or into the FGC search window on the website without the “FGC”) Outreach: How can we...

Friendly Holiday Gift Fairs!

Friendly Holiday Gift Fairs!

Oct 7, 2019

Join us in an exciting pop-up partnership between Friends Peace Teams and the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative! We are starting a pilot project organizing Friendly Holiday Gift Fairs as a way to learn about, celebrate, and support peacemaking through "gifts...

Religious Education for the Home and Small Meeting

Religious Education for the Home and Small Meeting

Jul 23, 2019

This is an idea packet assembled for families and small meetings who seek to educate children in Quaker faith and practice. Originally published in 1986, this is a treasure trove, worthy of adaptation and revision given that most Quaker meetings still face these...

Holiday Traditions at Birmingham (PA) Friends Meeting

Holiday Traditions at Birmingham (PA) Friends Meeting

Nov 30, 2018

Three Christmas holiday traditions at Birmingham Friends Meeting (West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA) are described in the attached document: 1. The Giving Tree, a service project of the Birmingham Meeting Youth Committee in collaboration with a local homeless shelter....

Plays for the Christmas Holidays

Plays for the Christmas Holidays

Nov 30, 2018

We are grateful to Nancy Pickering of Middletown Friends Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) for three plays celebrating the Christmas season This is the Stable, A simple telling of the Nativity with readings from the book by Cynthia Cotten, illustrated by Delana...

Reverse Advent for Friends

Reverse Advent for Friends

Nov 5, 2018

Reverse Advent: For Families and RE Programs, An Activity to Teach the Spiritual Discipline of Reaching Out In December, young people and their families have an opportunity to connect a story of the season with service to a local food cupboard or shelter. While...

Quaker Children and the Bolivian Water Crisis

Quaker Children and the Bolivian Water Crisis

Aug 18, 2018

In 2016, when global warming left the entire city of La Paz without drinking water for weeks, the Friends International Bilingual Center (FIBC) seized the teachable moment to educate children about the crisis and what they could do to help. Through QREC, Friends in...

World Quaker Day Website

World Quaker Day Website

Jun 6, 2018

Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has relaunched the World Quaker Day Website to celebrate the 5th annual day of international Quaker celebration. We have updated the look and feel of the site and added more resources to help Friends plan their...

Crusigrama de Frases Cuaqueras

Crusigrama de Frases Cuaqueras

May 8, 2018

Find Word Puzzle of Spanish Quaker Phrases Haga clic en la imagen para descargar/ver el rompecabezas To view/download the puzzle, click the image below Para obtener respuestas, haga clic en el enlace "Archivo Relacionado" en la barra lateral For answers, click the...

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