How do we offer hospitality and welcome to those who are finding us and our Meetings across the miles in this age of Zoom? How do we grow together as a worshiping community? In this in-person and online gathering, Ohio Yearly Meeting Friends will join with others in Quaker circles and beyond to explore what unites us, as seekers and sharers of the new creation that Christ has promised us.
This retreat is an opportunity to gather with Jesus and his teachings as we explore these queries in worship and Scripture, in journaling and prayer, and within our personal and collective experience.
How does waiting worship give life to us and to our Quaker Meetings? In this weekend we will draw on Bill Taber’s much-read Pendle Hill pamphlet, Four Doors to Meeting for Worship, with its rich description of our personal and corporate experience of meeting for worship.
Even those of us who have it pretty good have had a rough time the past couple of years, even if only in feeling helpless to do more for those who are truly in need. How do we continue to trust, to have faith, to be encouraging when so much about the world as we ... Read more