CnR

To C’nR liaison Friends or clerks in monthly Meetings and worship Groups:
From the CYM Consultation and Renewal Working Group (C’nR)
August 2005

Dear Friends,

The Consultation and Renewal Working Group is planning a visit to your Meeting or Worship Group sometime between September 2005 and May 2006. We have been asked by Yearly Meeting to listen and consult with Friends and Attenders across the country and to recommend ways forward which will deepen and nurture our spiritual life. Our discussions will encompass how our Yearly Meeting may change in the foreseeable future because of:
   increasing costs,
   the concern to leave as faint an ecological footprint as possible,
    the desire to make our Yearly Meeting a more vital part of the lives of Canadian Friends,
    and difficulties inherent in our current structure.

We hope in these consultations to include Friends and attenders who do not normally attend Yearly Meeting and who usually do not participate in discussions about Yearly Meeting. This is a challenge and we hope that our liaison Friends in the local meetings will assist in reaching all Friends and attenders.

Your visitors will include one member from C’nR who lives in roughly the same part of Canada, plus and “elder” traveling companion who will help with collecting information and ideas. Ideally we would like to meet with your group for more than a couple of hours (perhaps even a full day?), but will leave that for you to decide and arrange.

If your group has not already appointed a liaison person to work on the logistics and help us prepare for this visit, could you please do that as soon as possible and let us know the name and contact information.

Thank you and looking forward to our consultation.

Marilyn Manzer, Clerk
Consultation and Renewal Working Group (C’nR)
Contact Marilyn Manzer

QUERIES
From the Consultation and Renewal Working Group (C’nR)

Primary Queries

1.   Is your Monthly Meeting or Worship Group a central and life transforming commitment,
       or is it one of the activities that competes for your attention, allegiance and money?

2.   How can we openly engage with the diverse Quaker theology within our Yearly Meeting?

3.   What does our Quaker faith ask us to DO?

4.   Where do you experience a “gathering meeting”?
       What would foster it?

Additional Queries

5.   How can our Quaker practice involve everyone in every stage of life, from childhood to old age?

6.   How does the structure of our organization shape your experience of Quakerism?
       For example: bottom-up/top-down, local/regional, national/international.

7.   How can we be faithful to our concern for the environment, live this out with increasing integrity,
       and maintain a Canadian Yearly Meeting?

8.   How do relationships of Canadian Friends with other Quaker, Christian,
       non Christian and interfaith groups enrich the life of your Monthly Meeting or Worship Group?

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