Author: Wendrie Heywood
-
Marketing or Outreach?
All businesses, if they are to thrive, need some form of marketing. All Quaker meetings, if they are to thrive, need some form of Outreach. Are they the same thing? What can you do to encourage Outreach? What can you do to encourage marketing? Why might you hesitate before doing anything? The word marketing can
-
Quakerly Business
Is a Meeting House… a place of worship? a business? a social enterprise? a community resource? Or some combination of the above? Historically Quakers have been very good at running businesses (including banks). In current years this has been viewed with more suspicion. Quakers In Business have a set of principles on their website which
-
Meeting Houses – Beacons or Burdens?
As mentioned in my last post “Why have a Meeting House“, Quaker meetings are often supporting meeting houses with fewer members, as the number of Quakers donating money and time has reduced. Just over a year ago I helped organise an event in London called “Creating a Vision of Our Future“. During this, Alec Davison
-
Why have a Meeting House?
This is a question often asked when I say “I manage a Meeting House”, or talk about making profits and covering costs. Why do we maintain places of worship? 1) Primarily a meeting house exists to enable Quaker worship to happen at a set time and place. Any premises will need some maintenance, investment and,
-
On Being a Quaker Warden: Wardenship as a Spiritual Matter
I’m often asked why I chose to become a Quaker warden. As well as “what IS a Warden?”. Quaker Life have a page that gives the current understanding, plus supplies questions and answers to anyone looking at appointing or managing wardens with Britain Yearly Meeting. Wardens are mentioned several times in Quaker Faith & Practice:
