QUAKERS
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QUAKER WEEKLY PUBLICATION
"The Friend"

Financial information for Trustees (03/09):
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New Address Book 2010:
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Completed forms should be returned to your Meeting Overseer (ask if not sure)

Rooms for hire at:

Derby, Bakewell,Chesterfield, Nottingham, Mansfield, Fritchley Meeting Houses

ABOUT THE QUAKERS

Meetings for Worship - every Sunday and other times
Some special events are listed below

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 aims to be a religious sharing community governed by our growing awareness of the right ordering of our lives.

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 any individual present. We accept all contributions to our work, with tenderness. We seek to find and express the "right ordering" of our affairs beyond our own personal views.

Quaker Approaches to Religious Life

• Religious Practice & Celebrations Quakers tend to emphasise the unity of life expressed as "the hidden church" via shared community responsibility and beyond outward forms of priesthood, baptism and eucharist. This unity may be expressed via our testimonies, gatherings, formal membership of the Society of Friends, weddings, and funerals.
• Our Sense of Responsibility: Our testimonies may express our approach to stewardship of our environment, the right use of wealth, poverty and charity, promotion of world peace and concerns such as misuse of alcohol and drugs or animal welfare.
• That of God in Everyone We try to find the worth of each individual via love and friendship, whatever their state. We seek to share each other's life stories as we search to know that of God.
• Close Relationships  We value close relationships via marriage and family life. We value the elderly. We seek to support those with different lifestyles. We try to live our lives under the guidance of God.
• Some Quakers: 
  George Fox (1624-1691),  Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), Lewis Richardson (1881-1953),  
  Kathleen Lonsdale(1903-1971), Jocelyn Burnell (1943- )

More information on the lives of past Quakers can be found in " "Quaker Faith and Practice" , published by Britain Yearly Meeting. This is an anthology of Quaker writing and the most authoritative guide to Quakerism today in Britain. The first chapter is available separately as a small booklet ; "Advices and Queries" which seeks to provide a simlpe guide to our religious life

© Notts and Derby Monthly Meeting of  Britain Yearly Meeting  

SPECIAL LOCAL EVENTS

Saturday 25 July to Saturday 1 August 2009, University of York, Yearly Meeting Gathering

 25 to 27 September 2009, Coalport Youth Hostel, Nottingham Meeting Residential Weekend

 AM Residential Weekend, New venue in 2010 at Great Hucklow

Notts & Derby AM Link Group (for young people)

Contact Helen
Work Phone/fax 01629 760791
Home Phone 01629 582122

Nottingham Quaker Meeting events

Nottingham Quaker Meeting have their own web site. You might like to use the links to the left to click through to their web pages. They have a current series of "Quaker Quest Events".

 Contact / email the web organiser with information updates to: me