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author | ht |
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date | Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:07:25 -0400 |
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files | Sufferings/2016-02/notes.txt Sufferings/2016-02/sesame.txt |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/2016-02/notes.txt Sat Mar 26 12:07:25 2016 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +http://fwcc.world/plenary-2016/epistle-from-2016-friends-world-committee-for-consultation-world-plenary-international-representatives-meeting + + Although God can fill our hearts, God has no hands but ours to heal + this broken world. + +---------- + +CGAG declined to suggest any changes to QF&P as regards how are annual +budget is determined, as QF&P is about general principles, rather than +detailed specifications which would require too-frequent updates. We +agreed with this, and heard wrt documenting the current budget +process: Operational plan is the current core of the process, but it +changes too often to be usefully documented, even informally. + +---------- + +Refugee sponsorship: Not just Syrian? Only in the first instance, +probably (this is still all in anticipation, waiting on HMG). + Citizens UK vs. NRWB + +Support for QPSW to lend our names to the Citizens UK effort to +encourage the government's consideration of a Private Sponsorship +system. + +Concerns were voiced about Citizens UK and the risk of a 'third way' +undermining the existing routes, and about the implication that this +is not a universal obligation which should be funded by the +government. + +------------- + +YM 2016 -- Living out our Faith -- ordinary as well as heroic. +Preliminary meetings and questions/comments in advance. + +Notice deadline for C&YP programmes: 16 March + +Registration requested for all those planning to attend, for planning +purposes. + +----------- + +What MfS is all about: "general care...;set...priorities [per YM and +concerns of AMs] to guide YM and AMs;visionary and prophetic + +Vision: Our Faith in the Future + +MfWfB -- "A MfW with an agenda" + +"Right Ordering" -- in life as well as in our MfWfB + +Membership (historically) implied accepting the Discipline, does it +still? What obligations does Membership carry with it? + +Concerns need to be 3/4s baked -- AMs are told if they send something +to Sufferings, they have to be clear what they are asking Sufferings +to _do_. Likewise if an LM sends a concern to AM, they should be +clear what endorsing it _means_ in practice. "I don't want AMs just +dropping a dead pigeon on the doorstep of Friends House". + +-------- + +"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans" + +Planning to bridge the gap isn't quite the same as being led. + +Children's meeting: If you build it they will come. + +AMe size is not a goal in itself. + +Chair colour as exercising our discernment muscles + +Confident Quaker voice3 + +========= + +Sustainability + +Large tabular display of goals and state of progress towards them + +Some good news "snowball" effects + +"Embedding sustainability in all our processes" + +Sustainability Gathering 18--20 March Swanwick + Getting past the "plateau" of having done the Meeting House, needing + to change our individual lives + +New project: Nurturing our Sustainability Ministry
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sufferings/2016-02/sesame.txt Sat Mar 26 12:07:25 2016 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Report of Meeting for Sufferings, held in London 2016-02-06 + +*Introduction* + +During our opening worship, extracts from the Epistle [1] of the Friends +World Committee for Consultation World Plenary meeting held in Pisac, +Peru, 19-27 January 2016, includng these words: + + Although God can fill our hearts, God has no hands but ours to heal + this broken world. [2] + +*Annual budget* + +Church Government Advisory Group declined to suggest any changes to +Quaker Faith and Practice as regards how our annual budget is +determined, as QF&P is about general principles, rather than detailed +specifications which would require too-frequent updates. We agreed +with this, and heard, with respect to documenting the current budget +process, that the "Operational Plan" is the current core of the +process, but this changes too often to be usefully documented, even +informally. + +*Refugee sponsorship* + +At first several statements of support were made for asking Quaker +Peace and Social Witness to lend our names to the Citizens UK effort +to encourage the government's consideration of a Private Sponsorship +system. However, "serious reservations [were also] expressed both +about the scheme itself and the impact this could have on existing +work with and services for refugees." [3] QPS&W are initiating efforts +to clarify both the status of the organisation so far taking the lead +in this, Citizens UK, and the position of the main charities already +envolved in supporting refugees and asylum seekers. + +Our representatives are aware of considerable interest within the Area +Meeting in participating in such a scheme, and will actively monitor +QPS&W's progress in this area. + +*Yearly Meeting 2016* + +Yearly Meeting will be in London, 27--30 May 2016. We are requested +to register [4] and to make use of the Spiritual Preparation for +Yearly Meeting guide [5]. Area Meeting Elders will shortly be +publicising two local sessions for those considering attending Yearly +Meeting, to provide an introduction and support for those considering +doing so for the first time, and to work with the two parts of the +preparation guide. + +*Vision: Our Faith in the Future* + +Scottish and Welsh representatives met in a 'house group' to return to +the new Vision document [6] and our consideration of the state of our +Area Meetings. A few of the comments that stayed with me: + + * Meeting for Worship for Business -- "A Meeting for Worship with an agenda" + + * "Right Ordering" -- in life as well as in our Meeting for Worship for Business + + * Membership (historically) implied accepting the Discipline, does + it still? What obligations does Membership carry with it? + + * Concerns need to be at least 3/4s baked -- AMs are told if they + send something to Sufferings, they have to be clear what they are + asking Sufferings to _do_. Likewise if an LM sends a concern to + AM, they should be clear what endorsing it _means_ in + practice. "I don't want AMs just dropping a dead pigeon on the + doorstep of Friends House". + +Henry S. Thompson, Area Meeting representative on Meeting for Sufferings + +[1] http://fwcc.world/plenary-2016/epistle-from-2016-friends-world-committee-for-consultation-world-plenary-international-representatives-meeting +[2] A paraphrase of part of a poem attributed, controversially, to +St. Teresa of Avila, _Christ Has No Body_ +[3] http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-feb-2016-agenda-papers-final-minutes-package.pdf +[4] https://forms.quaker.org.uk/bym/ +[5] https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/ym-2016-spiritual-preparation.pdf +[6] http://old.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/meeting-for-sufferings/our-faith-in-the-future