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