We normally meet every Sunday at 10.30am for Meeting for Worship
However, during the pandemic we have met in our own homes 10.45 – 11.15.
We have also started to meet on Zoom afterwards for conversation and catch-up from 11.30 onward.
Future dates:
Sunday 5 July, Business Meeting after MfW from 11.15 am
Sunday 12 July, Area Meeting at Berkhamsted starting at 2 pm
Panel discussion : Peaceful protest to effect change
Friday 11th October 19:00 for 19:30 start
Harpenden Meeting House, 12 Southdown Road, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 1PD
Harpenden Meeting invite you to our Quaker Week event for 2019, on Friday 11 October, 19.00 for a 19.30 start. A panel of local activists will discuss the role peaceful protest can play in bringing about change. There will also be refreshments afterwards, and an optional half hour-meeting for worship at 9:30pm.
It would be wonderful to see you at our event.
Quaker News issue 103
Quaker-News-103Here’s the current edition of Quaker News…
Quaker-News-102Here’s a document by the Network of Christian Peace Organisations which includes Quaker Peace and Social Witness concerning the continuing efforts to oppose nuclear weapons.
nuclear-weapon-ban-briefing-2019Luton Friends hosted Area Meeting on Sunday last. It was inspiring to be with Quakers from other local meetings, and we tried to give them a very warm welcome over lunch and at teatime. Many thanks to our caretakers for making sure that the Meeting House was looking its very best.
At the meeting itself, a Luton Friend read from Quaker faith and practice 10.20:
“One of the unexpected things I have learnt in my life as a Quaker is that religion is basically about relationships between people. This was an unexpected discovery, because I had been brought up to believe that religion was essentially about our relationship with God…
… I do not think I am alone in my certainty that it’s in my relationships with people that the deepest religious truths are most vividly disclosed.” (George Gorman)Another Luton Friend gave a short talk about the transformative work of the Quaker Office at the United Nations (QUNO). QUNO addresses some of the greatest and most difficult issues: human rights and refuges, peace and disarmament, food and sustainability, and climate change. Diplomats, UN officials, staff of NGOs, come together for off-the-record meals in the Geneva House, in a Quaker atmosphere of trust, a meeting of hearts and perhaps then of minds.
-Colin Hall