The World Quaker Day 2022 theme was Becoming the Quakers the World Needs

Video: What to Expect at a Hybrid Quaker Meeting for Worship

For World Quaker Day 2022 QuakerSpeak spoke to several Friends about how meetings for worship that combine in-person and online attendance can foster a connection to Spirit. Watch video here.

What is your experience with virtual worship?

Podcasts

  •  The first series of The Friendly Podcast from Ireland Yearly Meeting launched on World Quaker Day! Hear Quakers of all ages and backgrounds at home and abroad sharing their experiences and views as 21st century Friends/Quakers. Listen online at: www.quakers.ie
  • Pendle Hill released the podcast The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope on 2 October 2022, in celebration of World Quaker Day. Season One will feature host Dwight Dunston in conversation with Pendle Hill community members, teachers, artists, activists, changemakers, and visionaries, including Rev. Rhetta Morgan, Cai Quick, Eileen Flanagan, and Ricardo Levins Morales. In each episode, guests share the experiences, learnings, and seeds that have transformed and shaped their work, their spiritual journeys, and themselves. Find out more and listen here.

Posters

World Quaker Day posters were available to download and display in your church or meeting house:

English: World Quaker Day Poster
English: World Quaker Day Poster (USA print size)
Spanish: World Quaker Day Poster
French: World Quaker Day Poster
German: World Quaker Day Poster
Russian: World Quaker Day Poster
Polish: World Quaker Day Poster
Korean: World Quaker Day Poster
Japanese: World Quaker Day Poster
Cebuano: World Quaker Day Poster
Filipino/Tagalog: World Quaker Day Poster
Mandarin/Cantonese: World Quaker Day Poster
Burmese: World Quaker Day Poster

If you have any problems printing this poster on smaller paper, you may want to check your printer settings to make sure the scale is set to “fit to page” or “fit to paper.”

Bible Quote

Quaker leaders in East Africa chose a Bible quote to support World Quaker Day: “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:14). 

Spiritual Reflection

The Friends World Committee for Consultation also needs resources to continue our vital work. This World Quaker Day, could you hold a collection for FWCC?

Please send contributions by cheque to the Section office for your part of the world (Americas, Europe and the Middle East, Africa or Asia West Pacific, addresses below). Alternatively, it is even easier to donate online.

FWCC Europe and Middle East Section
Woodbrooke
1046 Bristol Road
Birmingham
B29 6LJ
United Kingdom

FWCC Section of the Americas
1506 Race Street,
Philadelphia.
PA 19102
USA
Online donations

FWCC Asia West Pacific Section
35 Clifton Crescent
Mt Lawley
Western Australia 6050
Australia
Online donations

FWCC Africa Section
PO Bok 41946 – 00100
Nairobi
Kenya

For more World Quaker Day activity ideas, based on what people have done in previous years, see below.

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Activity ideas: 

  • 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.
  • Find a new online worship to attend on October 2nd.
  • Explore the World Quaker Day theme and share your reflections with the World Office.
  • Talk to someone who isn’t a Quaker about Quakerism.
  • Invite a meeting member who has worshiped with Friends in different parts of the world to share his or her experiences.
  • Consider how to expand your meeting or church’s connections to the wider world family of Friends.
  • Share a fundraising  meal 
  • Invite a yearly meeting representative of FWCC to come and talk about the work of FWCC and the diverse family of Friends.
  • Make a video on the theme and send it to the FWCC World Office to be uploaded to the WORLD QUAKER DAY website.
  • Watch the share the video invitation to world Quaker Day with Friends.
  • Invite Friends from a meeting that practices a different form of worship and hold a discussion about the WQD theme and find out what you have in common.
  • If it’s safe to do so, hold a sing-along with hymns relating to the theme. 
  • Tell the WQD story to the local media. Issue a press release, offer to give interviews and invite some journalists along on the day.
  • Promote what you are doing on social media. Don’t forget to post on the WQD Facebook page as well.
  • If it’s safe to do so, host an afternoon tea party and invite members of the local community. It’s a great way to do some outreach.
  • Don’t forget to include children in your preparations for WQD. Think about how to engage them with the theme.
  • Create a list of meetings and churches around the world who would be interested in email pals or exchange of letters between meetings telling how their meeting or church operates and asking about the other meetings practices. 
  • Talk to someone about Quakerism who might not know much about the Religious Society of Friends.