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| author | Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk> |
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| date | Sat, 06 Jul 2019 14:59:57 +0100 |
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| 1 23.48 | |
| 2 *Court and Prison Register* | |
| 3 | |
| 4 [York meeting attender] had a contract with the Church Commissioners | |
| 5 cancelled mid-way through for "attending Quaker worship and refused to | |
| 6 give any assurance that she would cease to do so" | |
| 7 | |
| 8 Change name to "Record of Sufferings" and expand the scope? We'll | |
| 9 come back to that, some hard boundary questions... | |
| 10 | |
| 11 *Diversity* | |
| 12 | |
| 13 "Sometimes [I don't] feel at home among Friends, but I do feel at | |
| 14 home in Meeting for Worship" | |
| 15 | |
| 16 1) Does anybody have a claim on the universal / baseline? | |
| 17 | |
| 18 2) Do Quakers think that everyone should aspire to become middle | |
| 19 class by middle age? | |
| 20 | |
| 21 3) What makes for a welcoming welcome? | |
| 22 | |
| 23 Overall, what are the weaknesses inherent in my [privileged] position? | |
| 24 [I.e. what do I have to _gain_ from diversity?] | |
| 25 | |
| 26 ---------------- | |
| 27 [Does an unselfconscious internal question along the lines of "would I | |
| 28 like to be friends with this person" get in the way of an effective | |
| 29 welcome?] | |
| 30 ---------------- | |
| 31 *Vibrancy* | |
| 32 | |
| 33 See papers for lengthy report, of little interest to us IMO | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Median size (wrt Members) of LMs down from 24 -> 18 over last 10 years | |
| 36 OTOH More LMs have childrens' meetings | |
| 37 16 Younger Friends groups | |
| 38 | |
| 39 Goal is to reinvigorate Quakerism | |
| 40 | |
| 41 Trustees: How to take forward the benefits: | |
| 42 | |
| 43 "How best [can] the essence of the vibrancy work help us achieve | |
| 44 the priorities that we have identified towards 'A simple church | |
| 45 supported by a simple charity to re-invigorate Quakerism'. We have | |
| 46 to find an affordable, sustainable and spirit-led solution for the | |
| 47 whole of the yearly meeting and not only in the pilot areas." | |
| 48 | |
| 49 Some interest in the idea that not all Central-Managed Work has to be | |
| 50 managed by someone actually in the centre (London or, wrt Woodbrooke, | |
| 51 Birmingham). | |
| 52 | |
| 53 [Option 4 vs option 5 as crisis team or towards a new normal? Compare | |
| 54 aid charities which focus on helping after the earthquake/crop | |
| 55 failure/flood to rebuild the schools/provide food and seed corn/dry | |
| 56 things out and rebuild and once they've done that go home with aid | |
| 57 charities which fund agricultural development workers and scholarships | |
| 58 for medical school] | |
| 59 | |
| 60 [Individual VW staff need some modest amount of discretionary | |
| 61 spending] | |
| 62 | |
| 63 [Risk register: lack of a transmissable Quaker culture | |
| 64 Woodbrooke: big drop in Quaker attendance at Woodbrooke events] |