Fresh Streams of Living Water

One-Day Hybrid Gathering of Friends Center, 2/7/26

Matt Rosen and David Male, with the help of the Friends Center of Ohio Yearly Meeting, invite
you to participate in a daylong gathering of Friends who are interested in sharing, here and now,
a Living Faith in the Way of Jesus.

This gathering will offer an opportunity to explore our relationship with the Divine Guide and
Companion at the heart of all, who helps and transforms us in our daily lives. Together we will
seek to share the vital treasure at the center of our Friends way – the love and power of God –
and to help one another open more fully to this.

Turning to this always fresh and life-changing power, what can we say? To testify is to tell the
truth of what we are finding, as we follow the streams of living water. What have you seen, what
have you tasted of the Word of Life?

This gathering is not about what’s written in books, what happened long ago, or what might
happen someday. It’s about what’s happening now, as Christ works among us. Is there a Living
Presence in your life that feeds and guides you? How might we enter the stream of this Presence
more deeply together, ready, in God’s wisdom and care, to be lights in the world?

We hope to remain open to God’s leading, to see, after this gathering, whether we might
continue meeting and walking together in the company of our Guide. All are welcome, whatever
words you are given for your experience of this Guide, whatever questions or longings you carry.
We invite you to bring your whole self, as a beloved child of God.

Bios
Matt Rosen is a convinced Friend and member of Stillwater Meeting, Ohio Yearly Meeting. He
lives in England and has been part of the Oxford young adult Friends worship group. He has
traveled in gospel love throughout Britain, to learn together with Friends from the Living Christ,
and has been part of the planning group for several international gatherings of young adult
Friends in Jordans, UK. He is the author of the Pendle Hill pamphlet Awakening the Witness:
Convincement and Belonging in Quaker Community.

David Male is Caretaker of the Morlan, the physical headquarters of Friends Center, and has
attended and/or hosted a number of Friends Center events over the years. He is a recorded
Minister of Stillwater Monthly Meeting and hosts a pre-meeting bible sharing time there most 1st
Days. For a while he taught Quakerism at Olney Friends School. More often he earns his
livelihood detailing cars.