Within the next few days, you will receive a phone call inviting you to join Friends in your area of town for a Friendly Eight Plus get-together. The purpose of the event is to learn more about and discuss Quaker process for Meeting for Business, Meeting for Worship, and committee work.
Organized by an adhoc committee from Outreach and Planning, the hope is through this discussion and hospitality to deepen our faith understanding and our spiritual relationship within Live Oak Friends.
We strongly encourage your participation.
The way this will work is as follows:
1. One of the following hosts will contact you. (If you are not in the current directory or your information is incorrect, please call Barbara Cowan so she can make sure you are included. The guest list of each host has been arranged by zip code to the best of the committee’s ability.)
The Hosts are:
Victoria Albright & David Wilcox, Hiram Butler, Ally Copony, Barbara Cowan, Joe LoCicero, Peggy and Alex MacDonald, Eileen Penland, Bob Stecker, and Kathryn van der Pol.
2.Each host will have Friends to his home for dessert or potluck, whatever the host decides, sometime before Thanksgiving.
3.If parents wish for their children to participate, they may.
4.Each Friendly Eight Plus group will meet one time unless the sense of that group is that they would like to meet again. Please let us know how we can assist. See our names below.
5.Each group will have an Elder (wise) person to serve as a resource during the meeting.
6.The topic of discussion will be Quaker process. In other words, how do Friends make decisions in Meeting for Business? How do Friends make decisions in Committee work? How do we conduct these meetings in a Friendly way? How do we prepare ourselves to attend Meeting for Worship? Meeting for Business? Our Committees? What about verbal ministry? How do we know when to get up and speak?
It’s a lot to cover and very important that each of us make an effort to participate. Whether you are a seasoned Quaker or just recently began attending, we want everyone’s insight and involvement.
“Speak in the hope of serving the Meeting’s search for Truth. Your personal opinion or your feelings on an issue are relevant insofar as they help in that search.” Illinois Yearly Meeting F&P
Committee members:
Bob Stecker (clerk), Barbara Cowan, Eileen Penland, Kathryn van der Pol
PS: If you have not been contacted by October 30, please contact Barbara Cowan.
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