Chosen by our Outreach and Education Committee, O & E
These change on the following monthly schedule:
FIrst Sunday: Meeting house – one hour worship followed by singing. Zoom meeting separate from meeting house – one hour worship followed by discussion of a chosen quote from Chapter One to Five “Faith and Practice” – Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends”. ***Sections from the Introduction explain that – These writings have been collected and published to record our Quaker heritage and also express the Candian Quaker spiritual experience. These should be read in the same way we listen to vocal ministry, even when it does not match our own beliefs. Rather than rejecting a message outright, we can welcome it as a means of testing the strenght and validity of our own convications and as a way of enlarging our vision.
Second Sunday: One hour worship followed by Discussion based on a chosen item from “Advices and Queries”. These are from “Faith and Practice – Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends” Chapter Six. From the Introduction “As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which allows God to teach and transform us. We have found corporately that the Spirit, if rightly followed, will lead us into truth, unity and love: all our testimonies grow from this leading.”
Third Sunday: One hour worship followed by either a) Personal Experience talk – a member or attender of our meeting giving a talk based on their life experiences or b) discussion of a chosen quote from “Faith and Practice” Details see First Sunday ***
Fourth Sunday: Half hour worship followed by Meeting for Worship with attention to Business.
Fifth Sunday: When there is a fifth Sunday we plan to invite an outside speaker to give a short talk about their life and/or work that is relevant to our meeting members, where feasible. Alternate if not available.
Details for month of May, 2024
Sunday March 5th: Zoom attenders; Chapter 1 experiencing the Spirit: Our Faith, spiritual Experiences of Friends 1.13. “The first gleam of light “the first cold light of morning” which gave promise of a new day with it’s noontime glories, dawned on me one day at Meeting, when I had been meditating on my state in great depression. I seemed to hear the words articulated in my spirit, “Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee”.” -Caroline Fox, 1882
Sunday May 12th From CYM “Advices and Queries” #
Sunday May 19th Chapter 1 Experiencing the Spirit: Our Faith, Spiritual Experiences of Friends, 1.28. The uaker understanding of Truth is a complex one…Friends have not traditionally beleived that truth is relative, or that it chages over time or from one person to another. Rather, we have believed in continuing revelation, that God continues to reveal Truth (with a captital T) to each person individually, without intermediary. This leads to many different interpretations of Truth or different personal truths, if you will. However, although Friends beieve no one person xan know the entire Truth, that does not mean that we don’t beieve abslute Truth exists. The Truth we are all seeking, though it may be expressed and lived in any ways, is universal Truth. – Editors of Whipers of Faith, 2005
Sunday May 26th Half hour worship followed by Meeting for Worship with attention to business.
Coldstream Quakers 