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| 48 <h1>Diana Horne: Report on a meeting</h1> | |
| 49 <div class="byline">Henry S. Thompson</div> | |
| 50 <div class="byline">Mary Woodward</div> | |
| 51 <div class="byline"> 4 Sep 2010</div> | |
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| 54 <div> | |
| 55 <h2>1. Diana Horne: Report on a meeting in conjunction with her application | |
| 56 for membership</h2> | |
| 57 <p>At the request of SE Scotland Area Meeting, Diana, Henry and Mary met over supper at Mary's flat on 1 September 2010. | |
| 58 After a pleasant supper and some quiet worship, we moved into a conversation | |
| 59 about Diana's experience with Friends and her desire to become a member.</p> | |
| 60 <p>An Anglican by birth (although her father would subsequently spend some | |
| 61 time calling himself a Quaker), church has always had a place in Diana's life, | |
| 62 but as an adult she spent many years looking for one in which she could feel | |
| 63 comfortable. She had been aware of Quakers as a result of their public | |
| 64 witness, but had never met one until coming to a show at Venue 40 in 1995, and | |
| 65 she has been a regular attender since 1997.</p> | |
| 66 <p>She found Quakers and Quaker worship a welcome change from other churches | |
| 67 in the way that she felt that she remained in control, and the way in which | |
| 68 Faith and Practice, particularly Advices and Queries, offered clear and helpful | |
| 69 guidance, without the obscurity and negative emphases she had found in other | |
| 70 churches' use of the Bible.</p> | |
| 71 <p>Recently she has been involved with Jasmine Perinpanayagam's testimonies | |
| 72 study group, where she helped organise the recent meeting with representatives | |
| 73 of the Army. This experience gave her a strong sense of the value of the Peace | |
| 74 Testimony, seeing its common sense and emphasis on equal rights, its lack of | |
| 75 sectarianism, as pointing towards a better way of living for us all in a really | |
| 76 usable way. The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 had made a very strong impact on | |
| 77 her as a child, so finding this kind of helpful response to the violence in the | |
| 78 world has been particularly important to her.</p> | |
| 79 <p>She would probably have moved towards membership sooner, but the demands | |
| 80 of caring for her brother Stuart, and a feeling that she didn't want to join | |
| 81 without him doing so also, intervened until recently.</p> | |
| 82 <p>Another aspect of Friends that is important to her is our | |
| 83 egalitarian stance on Gay and Lesbian rights. She experiences Meeting for | |
| 84 Worship as a valuable shared quiet time, a time to think and benefit from both | |
| 85 the silence and the spoken ministry of the group. She has not yet ministered | |
| 86 herself, but is comfortable with the expectation that she will do so when the | |
| 87 time is right.</p> | |
| 88 <p>She is comfortable with the Christian origins of the Society, without | |
| 89 being uncritical of some aspects of the established Church, in particular its | |
| 90 emphasis on sin and unworthiness. She very much values being part of a more | |
| 91 open, like-minded, group. Quaker guidance towards a good and useful life | |
| 92 represents a much more positive kind of Christianity for her.</p> | |
| 93 <p>She has a lot of experience in various forms of group work from earlier | |
| 94 jobs, and hopes to find ways of bringing that into service to the Meeting. We | |
| 95 agreed that she already feels and demonstrates a key aspect of membership, | |
| 96 which is taking responsibility for the Meeting in a practical way, taking a | |
| 97 share in the running of the place. One way in which she hopes to see the | |
| 98 Meeting grow is in providing more opportunities to talk with Friends about our | |
| 99 insights, experience and concerns, building on the experience of Hearts and | |
| 100 Minds and similar organised study groups.</p> | |
| 101 <p>In conclusion, it is clear to us that Diana is already a Member in all | |
| 102 but name, and we hope Area Meeting can ratify this.</p> | |
| 103 <p>[Not true yet, but hope it will be]: Diana has read this report and is happy for it to go forward to Area Meeting.</p> | |
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