On Monday 4th May 2020, we would like to invite students, their parents and the wider community to join us for our first online Quaker Meeting for Worship.
This meeting will take place at 6.30pm and will last around 30 minutes. We hope that this will be convenient time for you all. In order to join the meeting, we would kindly ask you to click on the link below and ensure that your microphone is muted.
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For those of you who have never attended a Meeting for Worship before, it will give you an opportunity to experience something that is dear to all of us here at Sidcot and a fundamental part of our week as a Quaker School.
The meeting will include a short introduction from Jo Leite our Deputy Head (Pastoral) and this will be followed by one of our Quaker Elders who will share with you a quote to think about during the period of silence and reflection. If you wish to minister at any point throughout the meeting, please unmute your microphone so that all participants can hear you speak. If nobody wishes to speak, the meeting will continue in silence and reflection. One of the Quaker Elders will inform you when the meeting ends.
Please see below a quote taken from the Quaker Faith and Practice book (fifth edition). During the Covid 19 crisis, I am sure that we can all benefit from a time of reflection and from being part of a loving, supportive and caring community.
I look forward to joining you at the Meeting for Worship on Monday.
Jo Leite
(Deputy Head Pastoral)
Taken from the Quaker Faith and Practice (fifth edition)
Chapter 10 Belonging to a Quaker Meeting
10:03
The Religious Society of Friends is organised into local meetings, each of which should be a community. It is our search for God’s way that has drawn us together. In our meeting we can each hope to find love, support, challenge, practical help and a sense of belonging. We should bring ourselves as we are, whatever our age, our strength, our weakness; and be able to share friendship and warmth.
Some of us now live away from our families; some of us move house quite often. Although surrounded by others we may be leading isolated and lonely lives. It is important that our meetings welcome newcomers warmly and that we include them in invitations to our homes.
Our sense of community does not depend on all professing identical beliefs, for it grows from worshipping together, knowing one another, loving one another, accepting responsibilities, sharing and working together. We will be helped by tried and tested Quaker methods and procedures, but the meeting will only live if we develop a sense of community, which includes children and adults alike. If all those who belong to our meeting are lovingly cared for, the guidance of the spirit will be a reality. The celebration and commemoration of life’s great events draw us together as we share the occasion and rejoice or mourn with one another.