Online conversation, hosted by Western Friend on 10/26
Announcing an online conversation:
Among Western Friends: What a new attender needs to know
October 26, 2025 at 3 pm Pacific/4 pm Mountain Daylight Time.
If you’re new to a Quaker meeting, have you puzzled over Friends subculture, with questions such as:
∙ How is this different from the church where I grew up, or the ones I’ve heard stories about?
∙ What else does a meeting do besides sit in silence?
∙ If I have an idea or a need, whom should I ask?
∙ When do I speak up in worship or a conversation?
∙ What is the Quaker language: Clearness, Unity, Threshing?
∙ Is there some core belief or practice that’s essential?
If you want to involve new attenders with your local meeting, what do they want and need to know? When should you invite them to lunch, or to meeting for business? What’s a good book or pamphlet to offer? If a Friend has experience in some other region, what are the differences for these versions of Quakerism?
Quakers will gather from across the West to hear reflections from a panel of new comers, including Lou Glowacki, Mary Ward, David Westmoreland and Jerilyn Winstead. Lively interchange will continue in small groups and with the larger body.
Register
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