Quakers Australia Mini-Yearly Meeting & AGM

You are joyfully invited to an innovative weekend of Yearly Meeting activities happening via Zoom from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st January 2024.  Join Friends from around Australia for meaningful discussions, reflection, worship, celebration and communal decision-making. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity to connect, share in our journeys, and collectively envision our future. Your presence will add to the depth and richness of our community’s experience.

Bruce Henry, our Quakers Australia Presiding Clerk, says “The Quakers Australia AGM and other business sessions will be open to all, as is our usual practice for Yearly Meeting sessions. In effect, this is a second, albeit experimental, Yearly Meeting gathering for 2024! You don’t need to be a representative from your Regional Meeting to attend, as has been the case for past January Standing Committee meetings. In fact, we’re keen to call this a ‘January Yearly Meeting’ weekend and not use the term ‘Standing Committee’ at all. Decisions requiring our spiritually grounded, corporate discernment can be made in January without having to wait for July.”

“Apart from any necessary business, the January Yearly Meeting 2024 weekend will offer times for gathering in worship with one another and opportunities for inspiration and reflection. There will be a Friendly School (or two—one on Friday evening, the other on Sunday), Preparatory and Information Sessions, and community time (on Saturday) for social connection and having fun together. We hope to include ways for children, families and isolated Friends to be involved. We encourage Friends to gather in pods. There will be plenty of time free from Zoom. We are also inviting Friends from Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting to join us.”

“We encourage you to come and experience the variety and richness of our Quaker life and look forward to seeing you online during this weekend in January.”

Follow updates in the program timetable here:

https://www.keepandshare.com/calendar19/show.php?i=2974167&date=2024-01-19

Here is an A4 outline of the weekend's events.

Agenda items will be available from this page.

CRQ POD WILL BE AT THE TURNER MEETING HOUSE

The 2024 Clerking Team encourage you be part of the pod which will be in the Meeting House in Turner.   Meeting for Worship on Sunday 21 January will be at the Meeting House at 10.15 am, to enable us to join with Quakers around Australia for worship.