September 2022

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Just Ask
Ellen Bassani

 In this piece I hope to share my experience of feeling included within my spiritual community, where I’ve been a member for over forty years. 


The Communicating Group – What’s This? and What’s Going On?!
The Office

Trying to help with communication in a fragmented time, a couple of years ago we organised a monthly Zoom meeting for a representative of each group in the Meeting to attend and share what their concerns, joys, and issues might be.


Rewilding Meetings
Yvonne Dixon

I do enjoy the ‘incidental fellowship’ of walking alongside people on hikes, pilgrimages, and walks such as these, and I wonder if OSAM could envisage something similar: a series of short walks starting from a Meeting House door and visiting a few sites of interest.


Return to the Home Country – Or ‘Look to Lesser Linen’
Karima Brooke

Now you feel at home, deported Red Kite!

 


Reminder
Brighid Schroer 

An Extended Meeting for Worship / Silent Retreat will take place at 43 St Giles on Saturday 3 September, 10:00 for 10:30, finishing about 13:30. 


Musings Upon a 4-Year-Old’s First Encounter with a Meeting for Worship
Juliet Henderson

Last Sunday I took my two grandsons, who were staying with Nana for three days, to the Combined Meeting for Worship: Felix a beansprout (2), and Theo a sunflower (4).


News of Fiona Mullins and Intentional Communities
Eric Roberts

Fiona is now living in a cooperative
community called Old Hall housed in an old friary in Suffolk.


Monthly Appeal September 2022
Jill Green

Oxford Friends Action Against Poverty (OxFAP)

 


The Meeting Garden Party
Juliet Henderson

Many thanks to the organisers, and all who helped with setting up pagodas, welcoming at the door, washing and clearing up.

 


Time for Reflection
Alastair Cameron

Alastair Cameron, clerk of South East Scotland Area Meeting, led the Scottish Parliament in “Time for Reflection”

 


Quaker Faith in Action
Quakers in Britain

Quakers discuss how and why they put their faith into action.

 


How to Become a Member of a Quaker Meeting
QuakerSpeak

Interested in becoming a Quaker? Here’s how to join a Quaker Meeting and become a member.

 


Community Noticeboard Online, September 2022

From the Office

 

 


From Quaker Faith and Practice 21.13

Knowing and Accepting Ourselves

 

 


Meetings for Worship
September 2022

 

 


Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 521 • September 2022
Oxford Friends Meeting
43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

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