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Institutional Meetings??????????
I was doing some research and came across a great idea when you dont have a meeting close why isn't it possible to create one in say a hospital, or county jail, or even prison!! this i believe would not only start a new meeting that could become part of the yearly meeting but it also services a community that might be interested in the quaker way that can not come to meeting!!!!
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Comment by Forrest Curo on 4th mo. 28, 2010 at 1:07am
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We are not the people to do this, not as we are now. I have been very disappointed, over the years, in learning how and why we fall short of the power/intention of doing anything of the sort.
There is a very short book, the size of two pamphlets, published by Australia Yearly Meeting, googling... Ah:
Quakers Australia: Publications - For sale
Living the Way: Quaker Spirituality and Community by Ursula Jane (Janie) O'Shea. Twenty-eighth Backhouse Lecture1993. To order write to Friends Booksales, ...
Or you might just try it, surprise all of us (and yourself!) I think this is very much the sort of people we were Called to be...
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Comment by Alice M Yaxley on 4th mo. 29, 2010 at 3:00am -
That's good thinking Elzie. Something like that has happened in a Young Offender's Prison in the neighbouring area to the where I go to worship. It hasn't become a full meeting because the prisoners there don't stay long, but it's supported by local Quakers who go in to hold Meeting on a weekday evening with about a dozen of the prisoners.
Do you have an institution in mind Elzie? Is there another Friend nearby who could start Meeting with you there?
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Comment by Sloane on 7th mo. 10, 2010 at 9:53am -
I think its a great idea. Im reading a call to service Elzie....lol
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