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Sun6

6 Aug 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun6

6 Aug 2023 @ 20:00Peace & Social Witness

Hiroshima Memorial Day: Shinnyo Lantern Floating

Venue: Haverhub, Haverfordwest then the river by the nearest footbridge

There will be a gathering at Haverbub first, at 8pm, on Quay Street, Hwlffordd ~ Haverforwest. There will be an exhibition about Hiroshima. Also tea and coffee will be on sale.
The lanterns for Shinyou Lantern Floating the will be prepared in the big room at the back and at sunset they will be taken across the river by the foot bridge between Quay Street and County Hall, to be launched  from by the bridge, which can also be accessed from the County Hall side if you can't get to Haverhub first. 
Link to screenshot of google maps showing Haverhub on left and bridge or see What3Words link
‘Paddle West’ will collect the lanterns afterwards from their canoes.

Link to a photo from 2019

Organised by Pembrokeshire Peace Group and Quakers from Milford Haven Quaker Meeting

Sun13

13 Aug 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Wed16

16 Aug 2023 @ 14:00-15:00Environment

Silent vigil

Venue: Senedd

Quakers from South Wales organise an Inter-Faith Silent Vigil to encourage the Members of the Senedd (and of other governments) to mitigate climate change. The vigils take place from 14:00 and 15:00 monthly on the terraces of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.

This is a Quakerly way of both expressing our concern over the need for action, not simply words, over climate change, and to raise public awareness through our visual but non-violent presence.

All are welcome to join. Those participating may wish to bring a cushion or folding chair.

(in December 2023 the vigil will take place on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, the 13th)

Sun20

20 Aug 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun27

27 Aug 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun3

3 Sep 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun10

10 Sep 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun17

17 Sep 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Wed20

20 Sep 2023 @ 14:00-15:00Environment

Silent vigil

Venue: Senedd

Quakers from South Wales organise an Inter-Faith Silent Vigil to encourage the Members of the Senedd (and of other governments) to mitigate climate change. The vigils take place from 14:00 and 15:00 monthly on the terraces of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.

This is a Quakerly way of both expressing our concern over the need for action, not simply words, over climate change, and to raise public awareness through our visual but non-violent presence.

All are welcome to join. Those participating may wish to bring a cushion or folding chair.

(in December 2023 the vigil will take place on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, the 13th)

Sun24

24 Sep 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun1

1 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun8

8 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Wed11

11 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Environment

Why Isn’t Ecocide Illegal? Paham Nid Yw Ecoladdiad Yn Anghryfeithiol? 

Venue: Zoom

United Nations Association, Cardiff & District Joint meeting with South Wales Quakers and Cardiff Unitarians 

Hilary Saunders & David George 

Wednesday 11th October 2023, 19.00 – All Welcome 

Hilary Saunders is a member of Bristol Quakers and a long-term supporter of Stop Ecocide International. David George is a member of Hampshire and Islands Quakers and a documentary filmmaker. 

go to https://us04web.zoom.us/join add Zoom id: 881 6998 7156 Password: 044941 

Cymdeithas y Cenhedloedd Unedig, Caerdydd a’r Cylch Cyfarfod ar y cyd gyda Chrynwyr De Cymru & Undodiaid Caerdydd 

Hilary Saunders & David George 

Dydd Mercher Hydref 11eg, 2023 19.00 – Croeso cynnes i bawb 

Y mae Hilary Saunders yn aelod o Grynwyr Bryste ac yn gefnogwr ers meitin dros y mudiad ryngwladol Stopiwch Ecoladdiad. Y mae David George yn aelod o Grynwyr Swydd Hants a’r Ynysoedd ac yn wneuthurwr ffilmiau dogfennol. 

Stop Ecocide International defines ecocide as ‘wanton acts committed in the knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by these acts. (Here ‘wanton’ means ‘with reckless disregard’.)

Their proposal is that ecocide be made an international crime alongside crimes like aggression and genocide. The criminalisation of ecocide would be likely to have instant deterrent effects on companies and governments considering destructive projects, even in advance of its enactment, and even if no one is ever arraigned before the International Court at the Hague for committing ecocide.

Several Quaker AMs across the country support this plan and have set up an informal series of meetings with officers of Meeting for Sufferings.

David George (Hampshire and Isle of Wight AM) is the organiser of these meetings, and Hilary Saunders is a knowledgeable Quaker activist; and they have both kindly agreed to address us.

Sun15

15 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Wed18

18 Oct 2023 @ 14:00-15:00Environment

Silent vigil

Venue: Senedd

Quakers from South Wales organise an Inter-Faith Silent Vigil to encourage the Members of the Senedd (and of other governments) to mitigate climate change. The vigils take place from 14:00 and 15:00 monthly on the terraces of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.

This is a Quakerly way of both expressing our concern over the need for action, not simply words, over climate change, and to raise public awareness through our visual but non-violent presence.

All are welcome to join. Those participating may wish to bring a cushion or folding chair.

(in December 2023 the vigil will take place on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, the 13th)

Sun22

22 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun29

29 Oct 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sat4

4 Nov 2023 @ 10:00-16:30

‘The Life Stirring Within’: a Quaker retreat day

Venue: Swansea Quaker Meeting House, Pagefield House, Page Street, Swansea, SA1 4EZ

A Woodbrooke Places retreat/course.

A retreat is a time for refreshment and renewal. By deliberately pulling back from our everyday busyness, we aim to connect with the source of what is most important in our lives. Here we refresh our sense of direction and renew our commitment.

In order to nourish our own reflections, we will draw on the writings of Isaac Penington, perhaps the most eloquent of the first Quakers. Much of his writing is in the form of letters of encouragement and ‘spiritual counsel’ and we will find that he can still speak to us about the reality of our own spiritual lives today.

So that we can enter quickly into the spirit of the retreat on Saturday, there will be an introductory recorded talk made available for you to watch at your convenience in the week leading up to the retreat. The Saturday itself will offer times of quiet as well as short talks dotted through the day. Ways of using the quiet time will be offered.

Standard booking: £35 Lunch included

Young person booking (aged 18-35) £17.50 Lunch included

Please note that bookings will close 15 days in advance.

Please book via Woodbrooke's website: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/the-life-stirring-within-a-quaker-retreat-day/

 

Sun5

5 Nov 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun12

12 Nov 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Wed15

15 Nov 2023 @ 14:00-15:00Environment

Silent vigil

Venue: Senedd

Quakers from South Wales organise an Inter-Faith Silent Vigil to encourage the Members of the Senedd (and of other governments) to mitigate climate change. The vigils take place from 14:00 and 15:00 monthly on the terraces of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.

This is a Quakerly way of both expressing our concern over the need for action, not simply words, over climate change, and to raise public awareness through our visual but non-violent presence.

All are welcome to join. Those participating may wish to bring a cushion or folding chair.

(in December 2023 the vigil will take place on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, the 13th)

Sun19

19 Nov 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship

Sun26

26 Nov 2023 @ 19:00Meeting for Worship

Sunday evening MfW

Venue: Online via Zoom

Dear Friend,

As usual, you are warmly invited to the half-hour meeting for worship held on Sunday evenings at 7pm. If you haven’t attended before, we’ve included a message about the meeting below the joining details (the same link and passcode each Sunday)

Please ask for the link via our contact form.

About this online meeting for worship:

Some Friends attend this evening meeting often or occasionally in addition to their own local worship held at another time, while for others this is their only opportunity to worship in community. It's therefore a unique and well-attended occasion when Friends across South Wales join together in worship. Everyone is welcome.


The meeting is open to join after 6:45. We settle into silence just before 7 to enable worship to begin in stillness. During the first 10-15 minutes or so a Friend will offer as ministry a short reading they have chosen, which might be a passage from Quaker faith & practice, or it could be something else. Anyone can offer to bring the reading for a particular Sunday: email to agree a date. What you read is up to you – to choose in advance or decide in the moment.

We share the eldership between us, members and attenders alike, with one Friend each week serving as the elder for that meeting. At 7.30 the elder draws worship to a close and invites us to move into a period of ‘Afterword’, when we hold the stillness – for as long as feels right – for anyone to offer a thought that arose for them in worship, or to respond to the reading or other ministry. Afterword tends to develop naturally into conversation after 15 minutes or so, and the meeting usually closes at around 8pm, but people leave when they are ready.

We look forward to seeing you at meeting for worship. 


In friendship