The Blogging Church

Sharing The Story Of Your Church Through Blogs

BY BRIAN BAILEY
The author is "web director" at Fellowship Church. His book is aimed at pastors, but Friends will also find it useful. It explains blogging and the associated technologies in simple terms and talks about its advantages and pitfalls for outreach and ministry. Bailey gives tips and examples of good blogging practice.

Jossey Bass 2006 199 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Come Worship With Friends

Bumpersticker

BY THE ADVANCEMENT AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
Help make Quakerism more visible in the world. Attractive and easy-to-read bumpersticker with Come Worship with Friends plus www.QuakerFinder.org in large type. The QuakerFinder website helps seekers and Friends find the nearest FGC meeting to any location in the United States or Canada.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 BUMPERSTCKER Blank

$2.00 (in stock)

Letting The Light Shine

A Quaker Guide To Using The Media

BY SIMON RISLEY
This resource focuses on reaching the media to publicize events in your meeting. Risley provides excellent advice on writing press releases, creating photo calls, making contacts, figuring out what's news worthy, handling interviews, evaluating what you've done, and advertising effectively. Though this is focused on a British audience, there is much fine advice for North American Friends here.

Britain Yealry Meeting 1996 57 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

New Light

12 Quaker Voices

EDITED BY JENNIFER KAVANAGH
Jennifer Kavanagh pulls together the writings from the Quaker Quest series "Twelve Quakers and..." on such as pacifism, evil, simplicity and the Quaker understanding of God. "In this book, we are given varied and thought-provoking Quaker views on a series of important topics related both to belief and to practice. ...A valuable resource for those who wish to reflect on their Faith and Practice, whether a newcomer to Quakerism or an experienced member of a Quaker Meeting. Particularly helpful is that they are each short and to the point, with the different viewpoints..." - George Ellis, Quaker Cosmologist, Winner of the Templeton Prize

O Books 2008 240 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Outreach Ideabook

Suggestions For Attracting And Nurturing Newcomers And Enriching Quaker Meetings

BY THE OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
This is a collection of materials for meetings, which offer suggestions on how to be a welcoming community. This manual includes pieces which examine how to make the meeting known locally, practices of other Meetings and common stumbling blocks in developing a considered approach to outreach and responding to new attenders.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986 77 PP. Looseleaf

$18.00 (in stock)

Quakers

That Of God In Every One

BY PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Video from PYM Outreach Committee. Useful as an introduction to Quakerism and as a great discussion-starter.

Philadelphia YM 1993 16 MINUTES Video

$20.00 (in stock)

Quakers!! Where?

Bumpersticker

BY THE ADVANCEMENT AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
Help make Quakerism more visible in the world. Attractive and easy-to-read bumpersticker with "Quakers!! Where?" plus www.QuakerFinder.org in large type. The QuakerFinder website helps seekers and Friends find the nearest unprogrammed meeting to any location in the United States or Canada

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 BUMPERSTKER Blank

$2.00 (in stock)

Turnaround

Growing A Twenty-first Century Religious Society Of Friends - Php 387

BY BENJAMIN LLOYD
Like many Friends, Benjamin Lloyd is deeply concerned about the future of our Religious Society. Why are we diminishing in numbers when we have so much to offer? In this essay, he presents his own creative ideas and encouragement for a reinvigoration of our meeting communities. Which of our traditions and practices should we renew? And where are the places where continuing revelation calls us to be open to the winds of change that will come with the next generation of Quaker leaders?

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Welcome - Poster

BY PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Six paragraphs describe Quakers for welcoming new attenders to unprogrammed Meetings. Has space for Meeting name. Red and black caligraphy. Price includes poster tube.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1990 POSTER Blank

$10.00 (in stock)

When You're The Only Friend In Town

Starting A New Friends Meeting

BY DEBORAH HAINES
If you ever need to start a Friends meeting or worship group, this guide will be invaluable. It covers both the philosophical issues (why do Friends need a meeting?) and the practical concerns (where to start!). A resource list of Friends organizations is included along with stories of how other meetings started up.

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 40 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)