The work of cultivating welcoming community, integrating newcomers, and inviting seekers to join us in ways that account for social media and technology.
Virtual Gatherings
- Guidance for Meetings by Emily Provance, New York YM
Addressing the many parts of being a meeting community — worship, fellowship, business, youth — with thoughts on hybrid community and queries for discernment. - Hybrid Meetings – handbook, resources, and videos curated by Richmond Shreve (Newtown Meeting)
- Friendly Zoom Security Tutorial by Mary Klein, Western Friend
- [PDF] Retreating in Place: How I Made a Virtual Retreat a Real Retreat by Barbara “Shulamith” Clearbridge (Swarthmore Meeting)
Welcoming
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All Together Now: Welcoming Families, Children, and Youth
Nurturing all-ages spiritual community is vital to the future of our Religious Society. This presentation explores invitation, welcome, and inclusion of families and children in the life of local meetings. How can we prepare spaces and programs to welcome newcomers? How are we called to rethink practices and structures that are barriers to family and youth participation? A presentation by Melinda Wenner Bradley, PYM Director of Programs - Welcoming Friends: Encourage the Whole Meeting to Practice Authentic Welcoming from Friends General Conference
- Transforming Quaker Welcoming: Greeting Diverse Newcomers by Friends General Conference, adapted from the Unitarian Universalist Association
Welcoming Families
- Families at the Threshold – welcome for families
- Friendly Spaces for Families
- Welcoming Children and Families into Quaker Meeting – A series of 6 videos recorded by Melinda Wenner Bradley
Other Online Resources
- Eight Changes Your Meeting Can Make Right Now by Emily Provance
- Inclusive Language to Use in Inreach, Outreach, and Communication by New England Yearly Meeting
- How Do Quaker Meetings Do Outreach and Welcome Newcomers? by New England Yearly Meeting
- Why I Cried the First Time I Went to a Quaker Meeting by QuakerSpeak
- How to Become a Member of a Quaker Meeting by QuakerSpeak
- Faith and Practice by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
- Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries – documentary