Category: Community
Community building and deepening ideas and posts.
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AdventWord 2024: Love
Love is a Verb The word LOVE is quite odd. People often treat it as if it is a noun, or a pronoun if they’re in the habit of calling you ‘love’. But of course in English we use the word love for many many things. You may have heard that the Ancient Greeks have
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AdventWord 2024: Gather
Gather for Good: How Charities Can Strengthen Community and Boost Impact Through Connection For charities, to gather people together – whether in person or online – is more than just an event or meeting. It’s an opportunity to create a deeper sense of connection, inspire support, and foster lasting community relationships. By gathering supporters, beneficiaries,
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AdventWord 2024: Righteousness
The Light of Righteousness: A Guiding Star for the Holiday Season As the holiday season surrounds us with twinkling lights, warm gatherings, and reflections on the year gone by, it’s a perfect time to consider what it means to walk in righteousness. Often misunderstood as unattainable perfection, righteousness is, at its heart, about aligning our
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AdventWord 2024: Safety
Supporting Mental Health This Festive Season The word safety often brings to mind physical protection – keeping ourselves safe from harm, accidents, or danger. As we approach the festive season, it’s also essential to think about mental safety – the emotional and psychological security that helps us navigate life’s challenges, particularly during times of increased
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Affording our Meeting Houses
This could be taken two ways – how do we ensure that the Meeting House is affordable for both the local community and the worshipping community that uses it. Not only financially, but also with reference back to an earlier post: Beacon or Burden. Hopefully, all Quaker Meetings are a spirit-led, all-age faith community trying
