Explore Quaker Faith & Practice (The Red Book)
We are running a group to explore Quaker faith & practice on the last Sunday of each month except August from January 2016 – October 2017 at Forest Hill Meeting House from 7.00 – 9.00 p.m.
This will consist of a programme of monthly readings (see timetable below) and reflection sessions involving exercises, worship sharing, etc based on materials written by Quaker Life.
We are doing this because “The Book of Discipline Revision Preparation Group” (a National Committee set up to look at reviewing the Red Book) invited us to join with them, and other Quakers across the country, in reading and getting to know our current Quaker Faith and Practice.
It would be very helpful if you would email Sarah Fox (who is co-ordinating this with Jenny Brand) to let us know that you want to be part of this group. We are happy for you to come even if you have not managed to complete the readings which have been allocated. Although it would be wonderful (and helpful!) if you are able to attend all the sessions we understand that this may not be possible.
There will be other ways which those from Forest Hill can join in this project:-
Quaker Life is also ensuring that there is support; publishing columns in The Friend, maintaining an online presence, providing study materials etc.
The calendar of sessions includes every chapter in the book and some of the extra material. It puts more technical church government material alongside more personal and experiential material, and tries to give a manageable, varied, and sometimes surprising mixture of reading. It tries to balance the need to read the whole book in a reasonable period of time with an awareness of the other demands which communal and secular life places on Friends.
We are running a group to explore Quaker faith & practice on the last Sunday of each month except August from January 2016 – October 2017 at Forest Hill Meeting House from 7.00 – 9.00 p.m.
This will consist of a programme of monthly readings (see timetable below) and reflection sessions involving exercises, worship sharing, etc based on materials written by Quaker Life.
We are doing this because “The Book of Discipline Revision Preparation Group” (a National Committee set up to look at reviewing the Red Book) invited us to join with them, and other Quakers across the country, in reading and getting to know our current Quaker Faith and Practice.
It would be very helpful if you would email Sarah Fox (who is co-ordinating this with Jenny Brand) to let us know that you want to be part of this group. We are happy for you to come even if you have not managed to complete the readings which have been allocated. Although it would be wonderful (and helpful!) if you are able to attend all the sessions we understand that this may not be possible.
There will be other ways which those from Forest Hill can join in this project:-
- Self-study materials for those working through the programme as individuals which can be found athttp://qfp.quaker.org.uk/reading/
- Facebook Group – being set up by Jenny
Quaker Life is also ensuring that there is support; publishing columns in The Friend, maintaining an online presence, providing study materials etc.
The calendar of sessions includes every chapter in the book and some of the extra material. It puts more technical church government material alongside more personal and experiential material, and tries to give a manageable, varied, and sometimes surprising mixture of reading. It tries to balance the need to read the whole book in a reasonable period of time with an awareness of the other demands which communal and secular life places on Friends.