UQM Update

05/10/19 21:26 Filed in: UQM News

Dear Friends

Welcome to the October 2019 edition of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting Central Committee newsletter. Below you will find some events and information that Ulster Friends have shared for circulation around Meetings. This newsletter will be circulated at the beginning of each month. If your Meeting is planning any events that would be of interest to Ulster Quakers and that Friends from other meetings could attend or you have any information to share, please send it to me and I will include it. The deadline for the November 2019 edition is Thursday 31 October 2019.

Frederick Street Meeting
Frederick Street are organising their Christmas Craft Fair on Saturday 23 November 2019 from 10am to 2pm in South Belfast Meeting House. All details on the attached flyer. Frederick Street Friends would welcome any donations of hand-made crafts to sell on the day.

Frederick Street Friends are also holding a mid-week meeting on Wednesday evenings. Join them at Frederick Street Meeting House every week from 5.30pm for tea/coffee. A short meeting for worship is held from 6.00-6.30pm.

EcoQuakers Ireland Event on Saturday 19th October
EcoQuakers Ireland are hosting 3 conferences across the island over the coming year, starting with Ulster on Saturday 19th October at South Belfast Meeting House. The conference, titled "Love and Despair: Actions and Responses to Climate Breakdown", starts at 10am with tea/coffee and runs until about 4pm. It's an opportunity to reflect on where we are at the moment, hear from inspiring speakers, and identify positive ways forward. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion. Lunch will be provided free of charge. Main speakers include Lindsey Fielder-Cook, Quaker United Nations Office Representative for Climate Change; John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queen's University Belfast and Lynn Finnegan Writer for ‘UN Earth Negotiations Bulletin’, Member of EcoQuakers Committee and member of Coleraine Meeting. Everyone is very welcome to this event. There is no charge, but to help EcoQuakers with the arrangements, they ask that you let them know if you hope to attend before Friday 11th October by email to ecoquakersireland@gmail.com Publicity poster attached.

Friendship Lunches at South Belfast
The dates for the upcoming Friendship Lunches at South Belfast Meeting are below. Meeting for Worship starts at 12:15pm with lunch at 12:45pm. Everyone welcome! Please also see the attached flyer.

THU 3 OCT
THU 7 NOV
THU 5 DEC
THU 2 JAN
THU 6 FEB
THU 5 MAR
THU 2 APR
THU 7 MAY
THU 4 JUN

Kind regards

Karen
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Karen Nicholson
Administrator
Ulster Quarterly Meeting
admin@ulsterquakers.com

SOUTH BELFAST QUAKERS

Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends as they are also known), have held Meetings for Worship in Ireland since 1654. After a previous failed attempt to establish a lasting Belfast Meeting around 1665, the first permanent Belfast Quaker Meeting was established in 1799, and in 1810 it moved to Brewery Lane, now known as Frederick Street. It wasn’t until 1956 that a second Meeting was approved for Friends who lived in Belfast, this time based in the south of the city. South Belfast Meeting House is an active Meeting with approximately 45 adult members and attenders who worship together each Sunday. Children & Young People also play a large part in our meeting, and we have on average 22, 1-18 year olds joining us for the last 10 mins of our worship, after their own activities.

Meeting for Worship takes place at 10.45am each Sunday at our meeting house ( see address and directions on the contact page )

Alternatively you can join us on Zoom with the following details:

Meeting iD: 4613195026
Pass: 143412

South Belfast Meeting is part of the larger Ireland Yearly Meeting (see details of Quakers in Ireland below)