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Welcome to Young Adult Friends (YAF)
Taz Cooper
YAF have introduced a new reading before meetings to make worship more accessible to newcomers.
Monthly Appeal
The Parasol Project
The Parasol Project is an Oxford based charity committed to disabled and disadvantaged children and young people experiencing, or at risk of, social exclusion.
Recently in the Meeting House Library Catherine Hilliard
Some years ago, I did a cull of unused and largely superseded Biblical criticism which left room to expand the sections on pastoral care and green issues.
Thoughts on Winter and Those with Low Incomes
Sarah Lasenby
When we heard in the summer the news that many people are getting poorer and would find the cost of gas shooting up this winter extremely challenging, we decided to do something in solidarity with them.
Singing Before Meeting
Anne Watson
Bring in the New Year on the 1st of January 2023 at 9:30 in the Meeting House when there will be ‘Singing Before Meeting’.
Spiritual Nurture 1
13:30 – 15:00 Saturday 14 January 2023
Faringdon (in person only) after MfWfB
Harvey Gillman: “Spiritual Hospitality at a Time of Uncertainty”
Harvey was outreach secretary for British Quakers for eighteen years. He is the author of many books, pamphlets, and articles on Quakers and spiritual life — his best-known book is ‘Consider the Blackbird’.
News about the 43 Newsletter
The Newsletter Team
We welcome Luke Young to the editorial team of the Forty-Three Newsletter. Luke replaces Sherry Granum, who has laid down her role after two trienniums.
Do you Book Rooms at 43?
Jacqui Mansfield
PLEASE READ if you book rooms at 43 for Quaker (or other) activities.
Update from Julia Dover, Youth Children and Families Development Worker
I greet you in friendship at the great still point of the year, a time when creatures of the forest, river, and sky are quiet.
Examining the Quaker Peace Testimony Adria Gulizia
QuakerSpeak
‘The peace testimony today is one of the things that binds, I think, all Friends across our very wide theological spectrum.’
From Quaker Faith & Practice 24.49
People matter. In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter.
Meetings for Worship
January 2023
Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 525 • January 2023
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