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This is the home page of Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire Area Quaker Meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends
Click
here
for Area
Business Meeting dates
2008
The administrative unit, known as the
Area
Quaker Meeting is made up of the following local
(preparative)
Quaker meetings:
Bakewell
Beeston(in
Nottingham)
Bingham
Chesterfield
Derby
Fritchley
Mansfield
Nottingham ( main
meeting)
Worksop
Click on the blue links above for further
information on the specific Quaker
Meeting.
Email contacts: click on the meeting names
below
BAKEWELL
Friends' Meeting House,
Chapel Row, Matlock St.,
Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1EL
10.30am
01629 822 105
BEESTON
Beeston Day Centre, Middle St. (next to Three
Horseshoes pub) Nottingham, NG9
10.30am
0115 922 4693
BINGHAM
Meeting in Friends' homes.
10.30am on 3rd Sunday. Please telephone for
details.
01949 875 766
CHESTERFIELD
Friends' Meeting House, 27 Ashgate Rd.,
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 4AG
10.30am
01246 274 465
DERBY
Friends' Meeting House, St. Helen's St.,
Derby, DE1 3GY
10.45am
01283 702902
FRITCHLEY
Friends' Meeting House, Chapel St., Fritchley,
Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 2FR.
11am
01159 609098 or 01773 856072
MANSFIELD
Friends' Meeting House,
Rosemary St.,Mansfield, NG19 6AB
10.30am Sundays.
01623 646997
NOTTINGHAM
Friends' Meeting House,
25 Clarendon St.,
Nottingham, NG1 5JD
10.30am
0115 947 3482
WORKSOP
2nd & 4th Sunday, 10.15 am; also 2nd Thursday
at 7.30pm.
01909 475299
www.NottsAndDerbyQuakers.org
© Notts and Derby
Area Quaker Meeting of Britain Yearly
Meeting
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ABOUT THE QUAKERS
Meetings for worship
Quakers believe that we all can have
direct experience of God. In our
Meetings for Worship, we meet God in
an un-programmed quiet silent time but
which may also include the vocal
contributions of gathered Friends. No
two Quaker Meetings for worship are
the same, in time or geographical
location, reflecting the concerns and
inspirations of individual Friends in
that time and place. Our Quaker
Meetings are open to all who wish to
share and participate openly in
our approach to God and the
religious life. Each Meeting is a
religious
sharing community.
We aim that worship should be part of
our daily lives.
We make no distinction between the
sacred and the secular as we try to
live our convictions in the every
day.
A Meeting for Business is also held in
the context of worship in which we
seek the will of God which may not be
the will of the individual present. We
accept all contributions to our work,
with tenderness.
Quaker Views
Introduction: Making Decisions and
Glossary of
QuakerTerms
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Celebrations
Sacraments,
priesthood, baptism, eucharist,
testimonies, festivals, rites of
passage, membership, weddings,
funerals.
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Close Relationships
Marriage, divorce, family
planning, children & young
people, elderly people,
homosexuality, different
lifestyles.
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Elizabeth
Fry (1780-1845)
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Life
and Death - Questions of Medical
Ethics
Contraception, abortion,
euthanasia, suicide, organ
donation, genetic engineering,
life after death.
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Our
Sense of
Responsibility
Stewardship,
testimonies, wealth, poverty and
charity, alcohol and drugs, animal
welfare.
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Sexual
Morality
Pornography,
AIDS, sex outside marriage,
violence and abuse.
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That
of God in
Everyone
The
worth of an individual, love,
friendship, racism, the role of
women, disability.
Two further leaflets are in use to
help enquirers understand the idea of
testimonies, one of them dealing
specifically with the Quaker witness
to peace:
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Quakers
and Testimonies
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Quaker
Peace Testimony
Extensive reference is made throughout
the text of these leaflets
to
Quaker
Faith and
Practice
,
published by Britain Yearly Meeting
1995. This is an anthology of Quaker
writing, the most authoritative guide
to Quakerism today in Britain. The
first chapter is available separately
on this site as
Advices
and
Queries
.
© Notts
and Derby Monthly Meeting of
Britain Yearly
Meeting
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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FRITCHLEY QUAKER
MEETING
Sunday October 5th 2008
Bring and
Share lunch after meeting, then
Come and talk about being a
Quaker
- Come to any combination of
Sunday Meeting for
Worship at 11 am
Bring and Share lunch from about
12.30pm
Discussion afterwards, focussed on what we value about Quakerism and why we come to Meeting:
starting about 1.30pm.
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