1 October 2017
Gathering in Worship Around the Globe
Worship Resources
In the coming months we will be posting further resources to help you plan for World Quaker Day. Please bookmark this page.
If you have resources that you think would be useful
to others, please
send them to us.
Video resources
How many Quakers are There in the World?
A video resource provided by the FWCC Section of the Americas.
Resources for using the How many Quakers are There in the World? video
Listening in Tongues
A video resource provided by the FWCC Section of the Americas.
Resources for using the Listening in Tongues video
Community of Practice Resource Guide
Other films and online resources
A Variety of Quaker Experiences from
Around the World
FWCC map
“Finding Quakers Around the World
Jon Watts, Kabarak Call set to music
Ideas for activities
•
Make a video and send it to the
FWCC World Office to be uploaded to the World Quaker Day website.
•
Invite a meeting member who has
worshiped with Friends in different parts of the
world to share his or her experiences.
•
Ask Friends to share how their
faioth has inspired them to witness in the world.
•
Copy and distribute the Kabarak
Call for Peace and Ecojustice (from the 6th World Conference
of Friends in 2012).
Query: “What is our meeting doing to respond to the
Kabarak Call?” or hold a
discussion using each of the four points in the Kabarak
Call.
•
Show the YouTube version of the
Kabarak
Call with music by
Jon Watts:
• View the
FWCC film on YouTube A
Variety of Quaker Experiences from Around
the World:
•
Share a simple meal and
contribute the savings to a local or national peace
and justice cause.
•
Invite a yearly meeting
representative of FWCC to come and talk about the
work of FWCC and the diverse family of Friends.
•
Hold a sing-along with hymns
relating to the theme.
•
Organise an event in your
meeting or church that shows how you connect with
Friends in another part of the world, such as visits
that have taken place, or consider developing a
sister meeting relationship.
•
Show the video of the World
Conference “Salt and
Light”:
(click on the video and it will take
you to YouTube)
•
Invite Friends from a meeting
that practices a different form of worship and hold
a discussion about what you have in common.
•
Have a meal or other event to
raise funds for FWCC. Have discussion queries on the
tables with resources such as the FWCC map “Finding
Quakers Around the World”:
Point out where Friends are located and
find some answers to questions like these:
° Which
country has the most Quakers? Which country has
the fewest Quakers?
° Which are
the largest and smallest yearly meetings?
° What kinds
of worship do Friends have around the world?
° Do you know
what an Evangelical Friend believes? A
Conservative Friend? A Convergent Friend? A
Liberal Friend?
° How are
programmed and unprogrammed Friends alike and
different?
° Which form
of worship worldwide has more members and
attenders — programmed or unprogrammed?
° What do
Friends around the world have in common?
• Learn more
about Friends and Friends organizations around the
world using websites (or explore Quakers on
Facebook, Quaker Blogs)
° Friends
World Committee for Consultation with
links to FWCC Sections and to Quaker service
organizations
° Friends
World Committee for Consultation Section
of the Americas and Voices
of Friends
° Evangelical
Friends Church International
° Friendly
Water for the World
° Right
Sharing of World Resources
FWCC
Offering or Collection
Send
contributions to the Section office marked WQD, and
it will be shared between the Section and the World
Office. Thank you! Following is a description of the
work of FWCC to be shared with your meeting or
church:
Answering
God’s call to universal love, Friends World
Committee for Consultation (FWCC) brings Friends of
varying traditions and cultural experiences together
in worship, communications, and consultation, to
express our common heritage and our Quaker message
to the world (mission statement). Through various
means, FWCC is connecting Friends, crossing
cultures, and changing lives across our many
differences and within our spiritual unity. FWCC
provides a Quaker voice at the world level through
its global ecumenical participation and its
worldwide representation on the Quaker United
Nations Committees in New York and Geneva. FWCC
works both vertically serving Friends at the world
level and horizontally, supporting Friends through
the four Section offices. FWCC connects us as
Friends in our work, in our worship, and in our
lives.
Please give
generously to support this important
Quaker work. Many thanks!
Thank you for participating in World Quaker Day!