Dates | Venue | Time |
---|---|---|
Sunday 15th January | Nether Edge | Afternoon |
Sunday 12th March | Sheffield Central | All day including All age MfW |
Sunday 14th May | Balby Doncaster | Afternoon |
Saturday 8th July | Hope Valley | All day |
Sunday 10th September | Sheffield Central | Afternoon |
Saturday 11th November | Balby Doncaster | All day |
Sunday 15th January 2023
From 1.30 to around 3.30, face-to-face at Shirley House, Nether Edge, 31 Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8YL. There will be lunch from 12.30. Please bring food to share. And there will be tea after the meeting.
Everyone is welcome, including anyone who hasn’t been to an Area Meeting before. Papers for the meeting and a draft agenda are here below in Googledrive using this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AxGOa5D6Uj7KYijk0KIgXcrzRw-WbZo2?usp=sharing
After the business our Friend Rosie Carnall will tell us about the revision of our Book of Discipline (Quaker Faith and Practice). Rosie is part of the committee tasked with the revision process, which has recently circulated two draft texts. She'll explain how we can get involved with reading and responding to the drafts, which are also available in audio formats. You can access the texts and audio versions here: www.quaker.org.uk/rqfp
Sunday 12th March
From 11.15 to 3.30, face-to-face and online, Sheffield Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St S1 2EW and on Zoom. Everyone is welcome, including anyone who hasn’t been to an Area Meeting before.
The business meeting will start at 11.15, i.e. before the end of the usual Meeting for Worship. We break for coffee and lunch at 12.15. The Children’s session will be extended so that parents can remain in the Meeting for the first agenda item if they choose to.
In the afternoon Rosie Carnall will lead a session looking at two draft texts for our Book of Discipline (currently called Quaker Faith and Practice). Please try to read the drafts in advance and bring a copy. These can be found together with audio versions at www.quaker.org.uk/rqfp .
Please bring vegetarian (ideally plant based) food to share. The meeting will resume at 1.15 and finish by 3.30 with tea and cake.