LOCAL GROUPS

SOUTH LONDON & SURREY


This group is called the 'Living Adventurously Group' and it meets on the second Friday of the month, 7.30 - 9.30 pm, but please check ahead if nothing is advertised.

Entry is free. People of all faiths and none are most welcome.
Venue: Sutton Friends Meeting House, 10, Cedar Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5DA (only 30 minutes by train from London Victoria Station)
Contact: Margaret Onians  (phone 020 8404 2271 or Margaret.Onians@blueyonder.co.uk )

Our starting point:

  1. There is that of God in everyone.
  2. Spiritual awareness is accessible to everyone of any religion or none.
  3. No one faith can claim to have the final revelation or monopoly of truth.
  4. A union of hearts between faiths can help prevent misunderstandings.
  5. We do not seek to ‘convert’ one another but to share spiritual insights.
  6. We seek to foster tolerance and mutual understanding between faiths.
  7. We recognise the direct, unmediated communication between an individual and the creative source of love, light and life.
  8. We understand the primacy of the Inward Light over Scripture.
  9. We appreciate peace as a process to engage with one another rather than a goal to be reached.
  10. We search our hearts and are seekers after Truth.
  11. We delight in the diversity of faiths and beliefs and warmly welcome Quakers and non-Quakers to join with us.

 
The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the divers liveries they wear here makes them strangers.
(William Penn, 1693, a Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania)


Here is the latest programme information for 2013:


Things That Help Me Grow…

 

Free on the second Friday of the month?

People of all faiths and none are most welcome.

 

10th May

David Boulton

The Republic of Heaven: Humanism & Quakers

David is a Quaker Humanist, a journalist and broadcaster. Tonight David will be exploring current debates on the historical Jesus and rethinking beliefs of God in different faith traditions. He will draw on his books ‘Who on earth was Jesus’ and ‘The trouble with God’.

14 June

 

Roswitha Jarman

Breakthrough to Unity: Quakers and Mystics

Roswitha has done much work on conflict resolution in Chechnya and Serbia. Tonight she will explore early and contemporary mystics and examine the roles played by surrender, love, authority and priesthood.

12th July

Harvey Gillman

Pilgrimage

After a recent journey to Santiago de Compostella, Harvey hopes to reflect on the nature of pilgrimage exploring the paradoxes and the sense of ‘not-knowingness’ in his life. This is a chance for all of us to explore the sacred and otherness in our lives. Come and join us!

9th August

SUMMER RECESS

 

Meets at Sutton Friends Meeting House

10 Cedar Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5DA

Every second Friday of the Month

between 7.30 – 9.30pm

 

Contact Margaret on 020 8404 2271 or margaret.onians@blueyonder.co.uk for more current details




NORTH-EAST (Darlington Area)

Contact:  Beryl Myers, 59 Rush Park, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham DL14 6NS. (Tel: 01388 661255)


NOTTINGHAM

The group meets twice a year.
Contact:  John Sturt, 19 Dereham Drive, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 6PS. (Tel: 0115 953 7056)