A Meeting is Born

[Rosalind Mitchell]

I don't know if anybody is still listening here, but if they are they may have
missed news of the launch of Barrow Meeting on Tuesday evening this week. For
the first time. Quakers gathered in worship just a couple of hundred metres
from the yard where nuclear-powered submarines, some intended to carry nuclear
missiles, are built.

Eleven Seekers were present, being seven seasoned Friends and four new
enquirers. There was lively ministry; the seasoned Friends had previously
agreed not to bring up the subject of Trident renewal but one of the enquirers
did this anyway. This being Barrow, the stillness was punctuated by the cries
of the herring and lesser black-backed gull and of boisterous young people as
well as town-centre traffic. Meeting for Worship segued nicely into
introductions (all being either new to Quakers or visitors to the meeting by
definition) and then into tea, much better than usual coffee (thank you Paul
Milling!) and coffee-and-walnut cake (thank you, er, me!)

A success then. A Meeting for Barrow has been talked about for many years but
it took one determined individual (<cough>) to stir things up enough to do
something about it. One in the eye, I hope, for those who in the past have
written off this individual as incapable of contributing anything worthwhile
(I'm looking at you, Bristol & Frenchay and especially Redland Meeting, and to
an extent Reading Meeting).

Rosalind

[Wim Nusselder]

Of course I am, Rosie!

Great news!

Your revenge at last… ;-)

Keep me (us) posted, please!

 

With f&Friendly greetings,

 

Wim

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[Bill Chadkirk]

I hope the meeting thrives. Regular supplies of coffee and walnut cake are, I have found, most conducive to a spirit of worship. It is important that we worship amid the noise of nature and humanity, amid the crying of the gulls, the sough of the wind, the caterwauling of drunks and the thump, thump of industry. We worship in silent waiting upon God. We do not worship the silence.

Bill

Bill Chadkirk
www.billchadkirk.co.uk

"In order to secure the village we had to destroy it"

Reputed to have been said by a US field commander in the Vietnam war
but could have been said by any commander in any war

[Mary Munro-Hill]

What wonderful news!  May it go from strength to strength!

 

YIF,

 

Mary.

 

______________________________________________

 

Mary Munro-Hill

Chaplaincy Team and Department of Modern Languages

University of Hull

 

M.Munr...@hull.ac.uk

 

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From: Rosalind Mitchell
Sent: Thu 18/04/2013 08:33

To: Quaker-B
Subject: [Quaker-B] A Meeting is Born

I don't know if anybody is still listening here, but if they are they may have 
missed news of the launch of Barrow Meeting on Tuesday evening this week.  For 
the first time. Quakers gathered in worship just a couple of hundred metres 
from the yard where nuclear-powered submarines, some intended to carry nuclear 
missiles, are built.  

Eleven Seekers were present, being seven seasoned Friends and four new 
enquirers.  There was lively ministry; the seasoned Friends had previously 
agreed not to bring up the subject of Trident renewal but one of the enquirers 
did this anyway.  This being Barrow, the stillness was punctuated by the cries 
of the herring and lesser black-backed gull and of boisterous young people as 
well as town-centre traffic.  Meeting for Worship segued nicely into 
introductions (all being either new to Quakers or visitors to the meeting by 
definition) and then into tea, much better than usual coffee (thank you Paul 
Milling!) and coffee-and-walnut cake (thank you, er, me!)

A success then.  A Meeting for Barrow has been talked about for many years but 
it took one determined individual (<cough>) to stir things up enough to do 
something about it.  One in the eye, I hope, for those who in the past have 
written off this individual as incapable of contributing anything worthwhile 
(I'm looking at you, Bristol & Frenchay and especially Redland Meeting, and to 
an extent Reading Meeting).

Rosalind

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[Stuart Burbridge]

Nice one Rosie. Hope your new meeting continues as well as it has begun.

Stuart