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6 <title>Meeting for Sufferings 2015-09-05</title>
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7 <author>Henry S. Thompson</author>
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8 <date> 5 September 2015</date>
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10 <body>
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11 <div>
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12 <title>Introduction</title>
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13 <p>Henry Thompson was present, representing SE Scotland on
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14 Sufferings for the first time at a normal working meeting.</p>
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15 </div>
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16 <div>
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17 <title>Selected highlights</title>
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18 <div>
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19 <title>09 03 "Our faith in the future"</title>
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20 <p>The draft from the Long Term Framework Working Group was presented and
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21 discussed. This single-page draft, which focusses on <emph>how</emph> we go
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22 forward, rather that on <emph>what</emph> we will do, has no <emph>dates</emph>
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23 associated, unlike the existing A Framework for Action, which it replaces.
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24 These changes are worth noting, and is to some extent in my view a recognition
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25 that the very <emph>idea</emph> of Long Term Frameworks has been effectively rethought.</p>
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26 <p>Some parts of A Framework for Action will continue to be
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27 useful/relevant, but we weren't given sight of an additional document which is
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28 expected to detail these.</p>
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29 </div>
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30 <div>
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31 <title>09 05 Minutes received 1, North Wales: Quaker Credit Union</title>
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32 <p>A national Quaker initiative to facilitate the creation of AM-level
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33 Credit Unions? We endorsed in principle, with NWAM encouraged to produce a
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34 detailed/costed proposal.</p>
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35 </div>
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36 <div>
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37 <title>09 05 Minutes received 2, Southern Marches: Memorial to Innocent
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38 Victims of War</title>
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39 <p>A proposal to add a memorial to the National Memorial Arboretum, close
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40 by the recently erected one for the FAU/FRS one, has been well-received by the
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41 curators there. Despite some continuing concerns about the phrase "innocent victims", we
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42 encouraged SMAM to take this forward.</p>
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43 </div>
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44 <div>
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45 <title>09 07
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46 The Church: Towards a Common Vision</title>
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47 <p>Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relationships (QCCIR)
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48 presented a re-draft of our proposed response to the World Council of Churches
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49 consultation paper with the above title. In the spirit of <link href="http://old.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/To-Lima-With-Love.pdf">To Lima with
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50 Love</link> ([Quaker] Committee on Christian Relations, 1987), it is an
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51 excellent statement of our understanding of what it means to be a Church. It's
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52 accompanied by a study guide. I'll let Friends know when these are available
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53 in their final form.</p>
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56 <title>09 08 Vibrancy</title>
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57 <p>Woodbrooke and YM Trustees will shortly review and most likely approve
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58 a pilot scheme, involving new staff specifically hired and locally situated in
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59 four or five 'regions', to enable our meetings to become vibrant.</p>
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60 </div>
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62 <title>09 09a Statement on refugee crisis</title>
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63 <p>A draft public statement on the refugee crisis was presented, and judged
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64 to be insufficiently robust. By the time of this report, a revised version
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65 will presumably have been widely circulated.</p>
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66 </div>
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68 <div>
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69 <title>Other business</title>
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70 <p>Reports from YM Trustees, QPS&W Central Committee were received and
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71 briefly reviewed, and various procedural/structural bits of official business
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72 were taken care of.</p>
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