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67 </style><title>Meeting for Sufferings 2015-09-05</title></head><body style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, Arial; background: rgb(254,250,246)"><div style="text-align: center" class="head"><hr/><h1>Meeting for Sufferings 2015-09-05</h1><div class="byline">Henry S. Thompson</div><div class="byline"> 5 September 2015</div></div><div class="body"><div><h2>1. Introduction</h2><p>Henry Thompson was present, representing SE Scotland on
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68 Sufferings for the first time at a normal working meeting.</p></div><div><h2>2. Selected highlights</h2><div><h4>2.1. 09 03 "Our faith in the future"</h4><p>The draft from the Long Term Framework Working Group was presented and
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69 discussed. This single-page draft, which focusses on <i>how</i> we go
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74 useful/relevant, but we weren't given sight of an additional document which is
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75 expected to detail these.</p></div><div><h4>2.2. 09 05 Minutes received 1, North Wales: Quaker Credit Union</h4><p>A national Quaker initiative to facilitate the creation of AM-level
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76 Credit Unions? We endorsed in principle, with NWAM encouraged to produce a
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77 detailed/costed proposal.</p></div><div><h4>2.3. 09 05 Minutes received 2, Southern Marches: Memorial to Innocent
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78 Victims of War</h4><p>A proposal to add a memorial to the National Memorial Arboretum, close
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79 by the recently erected one for the FAU/FRS one, has been well-received by the
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80 curators there. Despite some continuing concerns about the phrase "innocent victims", we
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81 encouraged SMAM to take this forward.</p></div><div><h4>2.4. 09 07
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82 The Church: Towards a Common Vision</h4><p>Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relationships (QCCIR)
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83 presented a re-draft of our proposed response to the World Council of Churches
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84 consultation paper with the above title. In the spirit of <a href="http://old.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/To-Lima-With-Love.pdf">To Lima with
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85 Love</a> ([Quaker] Committee on Christian Relations, 1987), it is an
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86 excellent statement of our understanding of what it means to be a Church. It's
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87 accompanied by a study guide. I'll let Friends know when these are available
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88 in their final form.</p></div><div><h4>2.5. 09 08 Vibrancy</h4><p>Woodbrooke and YM Trustees will shortly review and most likely approve
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89 a pilot scheme, involving new staff specifically hired and locally situated in
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90 four or five 'regions', to enable our meetings to become vibrant.</p></div><div><h4>2.6. 09 09a Statement on refugee crisis</h4><p>A draft public statement on the refugee crisis was presented, and judged
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91 to be insufficiently robust. By the time of this report, a revised version
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92 will presumably have been widely circulated.</p></div></div><div><h2>3. Other business</h2><p>Reports from YM Trustees, QPS&W Central Committee were received and
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93 briefly reviewed, and various procedural/structural bits of official business
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