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Balance bird activity

When you have completed your bird, sit with it quietly, balancing on a finger.

Imagine your bird has flown into the future and has attended a meeting of Quakers in the Bristol area.

What do you hope your bird has seen?  What are your hopes and wishes for the future?

Write/draw any key ideas or words on your bird.

We want to bring all the birds together at the conference.

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1. What inspires us to come together; do we expect to be transformed into a radical, simple, spiritual community?

2. How do we put our faith into action, and how do Quakers engage with institutions?

3. How do we grow a compassionate spiritual community?

4. How can Quakers be more known and understood?

5. What is the gap which Quakerism fills, which nothing else can?, How can we change the word worship to be a word that is more acceptable for people who do not believe in god?

6. How can we create a community and environment where all ages and stages of our lives are celebrated and supported?

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What our balancing birds have brought back...

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What our balancing birds have brought back...

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Responses from local meetings:

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What is the light that is at the heart of our Bristol Quaker Community?

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What is the light that is at the heart of our Bristol Quaker Community?

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The Friend of the future will not find worship complete without expression of the hidden life of the spirit. The existing love and unity must be made vocal to enable the meeting to enter into the fullness. The more diverse the membership, the greater the need for outward expression. We cannot feel that our way of worship is truly democratic, unless there is a duty for everyone, and opportunity for each to express what is given them.

“The Quaker of the Future Time”

Delivered at the William Penn Lecture, Arch Street Meeting, Philadelphia 1916.

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Imagine you are in meeting in Bristol in 2034...

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10.30 - Soft start and welcome with juice and biscuits

11.00 - Start with introductions, games, and a warm up

12.15 - Lunch (provided)

Blended for the afternoon + 12.40-1pm online community building

*Please arrive for 12:30 if you can only manage the afternoon session*

13:00 - Philosophy 4 Communities style enquiry into Bristol Quaker community vision

14:45 - Cake break (bring and share cake)

15:00 - Worship sharing and creating a minute

15.30 - Finish