We’re sending out the Reflections email for 10th Month a little early in case you’d like to participate in the Atlanta Friends World Quaker Day celebration.
Details are shown below.
Atlanta Friends Meeting is at 701 West Howard Avenue in Decatur.
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From: Bill Hooson
Subject: World Quaker Day 2023 Sunday 1 October
Dear Friends:
On Sunday, October 1, Atlanta Friends Meeting will join other Friends around the world to celebrate our roots and common concerns as well as our diversity. Ministry and Worship invites you to test your knowledge of Quakers worldwide with questions about the locations and diversity while sampling a celebration cake at potluck. A map will show the extent of meeting locations and may surprise you.
We invite you to join us for worship at 10:00am and/or our potluck gathering at the rise of worship around 11:30am.
What is World Quaker Day? Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) began this annual event in 2014 to help raise awareness of the diverse family of Friends around the world. It is a chance for Quakers to remember that we are worshiping through every time zone, celebrating our deep connections across cultures and Quaker traditions. We are united in love and can accompany each other on this special day that draws us together. It is a chance to celebrate our wonderful diversity of expression, whilst at the same time offering an important opportunity to learn about Friends’ experiences in other parts of the world.
World Quaker Day – 1 October 2023 – will be an opportunity to learn, reflect and act, as we prepare to come together as a global family of Friends at next year’s World Plenary Meeting in South Africa and online, themed Living the Spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with Hope to God’s Call to Cherish Creation and One Another.
Grace & Peace,
Bill Hooson
Clerk
Ministry and Worship Committee
Atlanta Friends Meeting
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