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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 | |
| 4 this broken world. | |
| 5 | |
| 6 ---------- | |
| 7 | |
| 8 CGAG declined to suggest any changes to QF&P as regards how are annual | |
| 9 budget is determined, as QF&P is about general principles, rather than | |
| 10 detailed specifications which would require too-frequent updates. We | |
| 11 agreed with this, and heard wrt documenting the current budget | |
| 12 process: Operational plan is the current core of the process, but it | |
| 13 changes too often to be usefully documented, even informally. | |
| 14 | |
| 15 ---------- | |
| 16 | |
| 17 Refugee sponsorship: Not just Syrian? Only in the first instance, | |
| 18 probably (this is still all in anticipation, waiting on HMG). | |
| 19 Citizens UK vs. NRWB | |
| 20 | |
| 21 Support for QPSW to lend our names to the Citizens UK effort to | |
| 22 encourage the government's consideration of a Private Sponsorship | |
| 23 system. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 Concerns were voiced about Citizens UK and the risk of a 'third way' | |
| 26 undermining the existing routes, and about the implication that this | |
| 27 is not a universal obligation which should be funded by the | |
| 28 government. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 ------------- | |
| 31 | |
| 32 YM 2016 -- Living out our Faith -- ordinary as well as heroic. | |
| 33 Preliminary meetings and questions/comments in advance. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Notice deadline for C&YP programmes: 16 March | |
| 36 | |
| 37 Registration requested for all those planning to attend, for planning | |
| 38 purposes. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 ----------- | |
| 41 | |
| 42 What MfS is all about: "general care...;set...priorities [per YM and | |
| 43 concerns of AMs] to guide YM and AMs;visionary and prophetic | |
| 44 | |
| 45 Vision: Our Faith in the Future | |
| 46 | |
| 47 MfWfB -- "A MfW with an agenda" | |
| 48 | |
| 49 "Right Ordering" -- in life as well as in our MfWfB | |
| 50 | |
| 51 Membership (historically) implied accepting the Discipline, does it | |
| 52 still? What obligations does Membership carry with it? | |
| 53 | |
| 54 Concerns need to be 3/4s baked -- AMs are told if they send something | |
| 55 to Sufferings, they have to be clear what they are asking Sufferings | |
| 56 to _do_. Likewise if an LM sends a concern to AM, they should be | |
| 57 clear what endorsing it _means_ in practice. "I don't want AMs just | |
| 58 dropping a dead pigeon on the doorstep of Friends House". | |
| 59 | |
| 60 -------- | |
| 61 | |
| 62 "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans" | |
| 63 | |
| 64 Planning to bridge the gap isn't quite the same as being led. | |
| 65 | |
| 66 Children's meeting: If you build it they will come. | |
| 67 | |
| 68 AMe size is not a goal in itself. | |
| 69 | |
| 70 Chair colour as exercising our discernment muscles | |
| 71 | |
| 72 Confident Quaker voice3 | |
| 73 | |
| 74 ========= | |
| 75 | |
| 76 Sustainability | |
| 77 | |
| 78 Large tabular display of goals and state of progress towards them | |
| 79 | |
| 80 Some good news "snowball" effects | |
| 81 | |
| 82 "Embedding sustainability in all our processes" | |
| 83 | |
| 84 Sustainability Gathering 18--20 March Swanwick | |
| 85 Getting past the "plateau" of having done the Meeting House, needing | |
| 86 to change our individual lives | |
| 87 | |
| 88 New project: Nurturing our Sustainability Ministry |