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1 http://fwcc.world/plenary-2016/epistle-from-2016-friends-world-committee-for-consultation-world-plenary-international-representatives-meeting
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3 Although God can fill our hearts, God has no hands but ours to heal
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4 this broken world.
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8 CGAG declined to suggest any changes to QF&P as regards how are annual
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9 budget is determined, as QF&P is about general principles, rather than
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10 detailed specifications which would require too-frequent updates. We
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11 agreed with this, and heard wrt documenting the current budget
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12 process: Operational plan is the current core of the process, but it
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13 changes too often to be usefully documented, even informally.
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17 Refugee sponsorship: Not just Syrian? Only in the first instance,
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18 probably (this is still all in anticipation, waiting on HMG).
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19 Citizens UK vs. NRWB
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21 Support for QPSW to lend our names to the Citizens UK effort to
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22 encourage the government's consideration of a Private Sponsorship
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23 system.
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25 Concerns were voiced about Citizens UK and the risk of a 'third way'
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26 undermining the existing routes, and about the implication that this
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27 is not a universal obligation which should be funded by the
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28 government.
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30 -------------
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32 YM 2016 -- Living out our Faith -- ordinary as well as heroic.
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33 Preliminary meetings and questions/comments in advance.
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35 Notice deadline for C&YP programmes: 16 March
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37 Registration requested for all those planning to attend, for planning
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38 purposes.
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42 What MfS is all about: "general care...;set...priorities [per YM and
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43 concerns of AMs] to guide YM and AMs;visionary and prophetic
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45 Vision: Our Faith in the Future
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47 MfWfB -- "A MfW with an agenda"
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49 "Right Ordering" -- in life as well as in our MfWfB
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51 Membership (historically) implied accepting the Discipline, does it
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52 still? What obligations does Membership carry with it?
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53
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54 Concerns need to be 3/4s baked -- AMs are told if they send something
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55 to Sufferings, they have to be clear what they are asking Sufferings
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56 to _do_. Likewise if an LM sends a concern to AM, they should be
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57 clear what endorsing it _means_ in practice. "I don't want AMs just
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58 dropping a dead pigeon on the doorstep of Friends House".
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62 "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"
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64 Planning to bridge the gap isn't quite the same as being led.
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66 Children's meeting: If you build it they will come.
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68 AMe size is not a goal in itself.
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70 Chair colour as exercising our discernment muscles
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72 Confident Quaker voice3
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76 Sustainability
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78 Large tabular display of goals and state of progress towards them
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80 Some good news "snowball" effects
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82 "Embedding sustainability in all our processes"
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84 Sustainability Gathering 18--20 March Swanwick
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85 Getting past the "plateau" of having done the Meeting House, needing
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86 to change our individual lives
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88 New project: Nurturing our Sustainability Ministry
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