Focus: Resources for Ministry & Counsel/Ministry & Worship Committees

Penny (Penelope) Wright is a member of Hanover MM in Hanover, NH, but came to Friends in Nashville, TN where she was a member for 30 years, serving in many capacities. She came to serve at FGC through her appointment as clerk of Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association (SAYMA) and subsequently as an appointed FGC representative. She served as clerk of FGC’s Ministry and Nurture committee from 2001 to 2007.

Resources for Ministry and Counsel/Ministry/Worship Committees

Selection of Books and Pendle Hill Pamphlets recommended by FGC Ministry and Nurture Committee

Advices And Queries, by Britain Yearly Meeting
“I find this set of advices and queries to be a helpful framework for
approaching most any topic facing a meeting.”

Conflict In Meetings: 2nd, Revised Edition, by The Committee on Eldership and Oversight of Britain Yearly Meeting
“One of series from this committee—more process oriented than
experiential.”

Dealing With Difficult Behavior In Meeting For Worship: Meeting The Needs Of The Many While Responding To The Needs Of The Few, by the Ministry and Nurture Committee of FGC
“Specific examples of difficult behavior and how some meetings have
dealt with it.”

Deepening the Spiritual Life of the Meeting, by Edward Hoare
“A brief but rich pamphlet from a British Friend who has long experience
with deepening the spiritual life of Quakers.”

Essays On The Quaker Vision Of Gospel Order, by Lloyd Lee Wilson
“A collection of presentations and articles from a Conservative Friend
recorded by his North Carolina meeting as a gospel minister.”

Fostering Vital Friends Meetings: A Handbook for Working with Quaker Meetings, by Jan Greene and Marty Walton
“If a Ministry and Nurture Committee had only one book as a resource for minding the spiritual life of a meeting, this would be the one I would recommend.”

Grounded in God: Care And Nurture In Friends Meetings
edited by Pat McBee
“Real life experiences of how meetings have dealt with a wide variety
of situations.”

Quality And Depth Of Worship And Ministry, by the Committee on Eldership and Oversight of Britain Yearly Meeting
“Formatted as queries for numerous details of assessing a meeting’s
condition.”

Spiritual Hospitality: A Quaker’s Understanding Of Outreach, by Harvey Gillman
“Discussion of what spiritual hospitality is to both newcomers and the membership of a meeting.”

Faith and Practice: Your Own Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice (or any of the other
yearly meetings).

Pendle Hill Pamphlets

Beyond Consensus (PHP#307), by Barry Morley
“Gets to the essential components of discerning the sense of the Meeting, grounded in worship.”

Four Doors To Meeting For Worship (PHP#306), by William Taber
“Helpful discussion of ways to come prepared and how to enter fully into worship.”

Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community (PHP#297), by Sandra Cronk
“What it means to live into being a faith community.”

Group Spiritual Nurture: The Wisdom of Spiritual Listening (PHP#373), by Daphne Clement
“One meeting’s experiences with group spiritual nurture - informative for meetings seeking a similar spiritual deepening.”

Members One Of Another: The Dynamics Of Membership In Quaker Meeting (PHP#371), by Tom Gates
“A thoughtful and rich consideration of what it is to be a member of a meeting and the relationship between individuals and the body of the meeting.”

Spirit-led Eldering: Integral to Our Faith And Practice (PHP#392), by Margery Mears Larrabee
“A welcome discussion of how eldering is a loving act of Friends who have each others spiritual well-being at heart.”

Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees (PHP#305), by Patricia Loring
“How spiritual discernment is the root of Quaker spirituality and practice and forms the process and work of clearness committees.”

Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting (PHP#347), by Martha Paxson Grundy
“Written to assist a meeting which is faced with emerging gifts of ministry in its midst; ways to nurture, support and oversee the ministry and the minister.”

The Authority Of Our Meetings Is The Power Of God (PHP#365), by Paul Lacey
“Addresses the thread of continuity from early Friends to current Friends in terms of power and authority, in particular that of God.”

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