Young Quakers

We have two link groups for children and young people in our area. One is for younger children and their families within our Monthly Meeting. This meets about 4 times a year at different Meeting Houses for worship, activities and a shared meal. Please contact Margaret Stenhouse on 01460 234442 for details.

The other link group is for young people of secondary school age within 4 neighbouring Monthly Meetings. We meet 3 times a year for a weekend, staying at different Meeting Houses. Each weekend has a theme, past ones have been, ‘A Balancing Act’, looking at how we juggle our lives between materialism and spirituality, ‘Spirit of Place’, where we looked at those places which had especial meaning for us and why, and constructed our own special place. (See the pictures!) We have also had visits from the Leaveners,(the Quaker performing arts project) and the Rowntree Fellows Simon Best and Paul Levy, who are working on a project about sharing our spiritual journeys.

If you would like more details please contact Georgina Cardew on 01823 665823.

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Pictures from Link Group in March 2008, at Uplyme.

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Minute from Wessex Link Group;Wellington 5-6th July 2008

To All Friends Everywhere;

This weekend we explored the theme of living adventurously together, in the rain!

This is the song that we wrote for the weekend.

 

Where did all the sunshine go?

Will us Quakers ever know?

 

We made a boat and watched it go

Down the river it will flow

 

As we saw it float away

Our troubles left for the day.

 

Our dreams are captured in a tent,

This was where our day was spent.

 

And now we’re smiling

Because it’s raining

And we’re dreaming

Of the sunshine

 

Eventually we’ll all go

From this happiness we now know

 

The wind and rain may come down

The song remains the only sound.

 

When epilogue is gone and spent

We’ll be warm and dry in our tent.

 

Us dreaming in our sleep

Of this happiness we now keep.

 

And now we’re smiling

Because it’s raining

And we’re dreaming

Of the sunshine

 

The next Wessex Link Group will be at Weston-super-Mare in November.

Please phone Georgina on 01823 665823 or Kathy on 01823 601229 for more details.

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