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Standing Committee on Support and Outreach
Making New Friends Working Group

Making New Friends

A Presentation to Annual Sessions
of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

We offer two ways by which you can see the Making New Friends presentation to the March 2002 Annual Sessions:

Download the source file

You will need Microsoft PowerPoint or compatible software to view the file.

View the Web version

This provides an HTML version of the PowerPoint presentation. The following table of contents offers links to specific slides.

  1. Making New Friends
  2. Overall Agenda
  3. Main Sources of Information
  4. Who Are We?
  5. A third were raised Quaker; a fifth are birthright; a fifth are attenders
  6. We are aging; our median age is nearly 60!
  7. Low on Blacks/Hispanics; Average on Gay/Lesbian/Transsexual
  8. Much better educated, and higher income than USA Population
  9. We have Left/Liberal Politics
  10. Our Religious Beliefs
  11. Belief in a traditional God
  12. 4 in 10 of us believe in a traditional God
  13. We pray far less than the US average
  14. There is that of God in everyone
  15. Although everyone has the Light within, different people have it in different amounts
  16. If you turn your back on the Light within, you will be condemned by it
  17. I have had a transcendent experience where I felt myself in the presence of God
  18. I very much want a deeper spiritual relationship with God
  19. Meeting for Worship is:
  20. The Meeting Community
  21. Average Age of 34 when started attending
  22. Personal ties are how persons first visit
  1. Good News! Friends do invite others
  2. We are weak in face-to-face groups
  3. Friends and Acquaintances in Meeting
  4. I still sometimes feel like an outsider in my Meeting
  5. Reasons to attend Meeting as an adult
  6. How they rate their Meeting
  7. What correlates with satisfaction?
  8. How they rate their Meeting
  9. Summary of Regional staff observations
  10. Correlates of Growth (Hartford Seminary Study)
  11. I believe Friends should actively seek new members
  12. Implications for Outreach
  13. Summary
  14. Summary
  15. Implications for Outreach
  16. Queries
  17. PPT Slide
  18. The “Making New Friends” Program
  19. The “Making New Friends” Program
  20. The “Making New Friends” Program
  21. The “Making New Friends” Program
  22. The “Making New Friends” Program

 

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