Matt Rosen
On the evening of 17 November, Young Adult Friends gathered in the meeting house to celebrate ‘Friendsgiving’, our Quaker take on the North American tradition of Thanksgiving.
Seventeen of us joined together in gratitude for things great and small, eternal and temporal. For friendships and Friendships. Not least, for the potluck feast which rendered the love in our community visible. We enjoyed many Thanksgiving classics like pumpkin pie and stuffing, alongside other autumnal treats. Most importantly, this was a chance for our community to reflect on how the grace of God has been moving among us over the past year. We felt blessed to have this opportunity to appreciate our mutual care, and to continue building a community that seeks to be a little
‘colony of heaven’.
This celebration was only possible because of the hard work of many young Friends, who helped to plan and pull this off, and who have helped over many months to support our community week to week. This is a testament to the gifts of our meeting. We hope that Friendsgiving will become an annual tradition for Young Adult Friends: a chance to give thanks and share in the work and goods of our togetherness.
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 524 • December 2022
Oxford Friends Meeting
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