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  <title>Meeting for Sufferings 2015-09-05</title>
  <author>Henry S. Thompson</author>
  <date> 5 September 2015</date>
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   <title>Introduction</title>
   <p>Henry Thompson was present, representing SE Scotland on
Sufferings for the first time at a normal working meeting.</p>
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   <title>Selected highlights</title>
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    <title>09 03 "Our faith in the future"</title>
    <p>The draft from the Long Term Framework Working Group was presented and
discussed.  This single-page draft,  which focusses on <emph>how</emph> we go
forward, rather that on <emph>what</emph> we will do, has no <emph>dates</emph>
associated, unlike the existing A Framework for Action, which it replaces.
These changes are worth noting, and is to some extent in my view a recognition
that the very <emph>idea</emph> of Long Term Frameworks has been effectively rethought.</p>
    <p>Some parts of A Framework for Action will continue to be
useful/relevant, but we weren't given sight of an additional document which is
expected to detail these.</p>
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    <title>09 05 Minutes received 1, North Wales: Quaker Credit Union</title>
    <p>A national Quaker initiative to facilitate the creation of AM-level
Credit Unions?  We endorsed in principle, with NWAM encouraged to produce a
detailed/costed proposal.</p>
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    <title>09 05 Minutes received 2, Southern Marches: Memorial to Innocent
Victims of War</title>
    <p>A proposal to add a memorial to the National Memorial Arboretum, close
by the recently erected one for the FAU/FRS one, has been well-received by the
curators there.  Despite some continuing concerns about the phrase "innocent victims", we
encouraged SMAM to take this forward.</p>
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    <title>09 07
The Church: Towards a Common Vision</title>
    <p>Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relationships (QCCIR)
presented a re-draft of our proposed response to the World Council of Churches
consultation paper with the above title.  In the spirit of <link href="http://old.quaker.org.uk/sites/default/files/To-Lima-With-Love.pdf">To Lima with
Love</link> ([Quaker] Committee on Christian Relations, 1987), it is an
excellent statement of our understanding of what it means to be a Church.  It's
accompanied by a study guide.  I'll let Friends know when these are available
in their final form.</p>
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    <title>09 08 Vibrancy</title>
    <p>Woodbrooke and YM Trustees will shortly review and most likely approve
a pilot scheme, involving new staff specifically hired and locally situated in
four or five 'regions', to enable our meetings to become vibrant.</p>
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    <title>09 09a Statement on refugee crisis</title>
    <p>A draft public statement on the refugee crisis was presented, and judged
to be insufficiently robust.  By the time of this report, a revised version
will presumably have been widely circulated.</p>
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   <title>Other business</title>
   <p>Reports from YM Trustees, QPS&amp;W Central Committee were received and
briefly reviewed, and various procedural/structural bits of official business
were taken care of.</p>
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date	Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:17:44 +0100
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