{"id":258,"date":"2021-04-28T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/demo-43\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:31:41","slug":"news-from-our-childrens-meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2021\/news-from-our-childrens-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Our Children\u2019s Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Gee<\/b><\/p>\n

Both the Beansprouts and Sunflowers children\u2019s meetings continue via Zoom. We have sadly said goodbye to three children who have moved away from Oxford earlier in the year, and have also welcomed a new child to the meeting. <\/span><\/p>\n

In March, our Beansprouts <\/b>children\u2019s meeting (for toddlers) had a theme of animal homes, using this to think about what we all need to feel safe and secure, using resources from the child mental health charity Place2Be. Some of the stories we shared are: The Home Builders <\/i>by Varsha Bajaj; Over and Under the Snow <\/i>by Kate Messner; and Little Home Bird <\/i>by Jo Empson. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Over successive weeks we each made an animal out of a toilet roll inner; then made a home for our animal, then drew\/stuck what we thought our animal needed in its home. <\/span><\/p>\n

In April we explored the theme of identity and colour. Some of the stories we shared included: Black all Around! <\/i>by Patricia Hubbell; My Many Coloured Days <\/i>by Dr Seuss; The Song of Francis <\/i>by Tomie dePaola; and Sky Color <\/i>by Peter H. Reynolds, as well as some stories from the Children of God Storybook Bible <\/i>by Desmond Tutu. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the Sunflowers <\/b>children\u2019s meeting, for Friends age 4-12 years, we have been reading a chapter a week of Benjamin the Meetinghouse Mouse <\/i>by Clifford Pfeil. <\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin has joined us each week via Zoom to tell us his story. Along the way we all made mouse finger puppets; thought about inclusion and accessibility in our meetings; and tried writing our own queries. <\/span>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We also read George\u2019s Journey <\/i><\/span>by Marcela Teran and Tim Gee: a rhyming story about George Fox. We then each drew around our feet, decorating our foot-shapes with words and pictures about a big step we have taken in our own lives. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each Sunflowers children\u2019s meeting includes several periods of silent worship, with each of the children rotating the role of elder: a role which continues to be very popular. Our practice of the children holding the silence and bringing it to an end themselves is spreading to other children\u2019s meetings, and was featured in the March Quake! <\/i>newsletter <\/span>from Britain Yearly Meeting. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 505 \u2022 May 2021
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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