SOUTH BELFAST QUAKERS

That of God in everyone

October's Monthly Readings


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Is your meeting one to which all can feel a sense of belonging, taking their full share in its concerns and practical work? Do you as a meeting maintain a loving and watchful care over all who worship with you including those who are unable to attend?

IYM - Queries for Serious Consideration No.9

How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things that are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows of each other’s lives, ready to give help and receive it, our meeting can be a channel for God’s love and forgiveness

BYM - Advices and Queries No.18

Eco Congregation Ireland's Newsletter


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Dear Friends of Eco-Congregation Ireland

Welcome to the September/October 2019 edition of the Eco-Congregation Ireland newsletter! Please find the newsletter attached. Thank you to all who sent articles and photos for this edition. Please re-share this email and circulate the newsletter to anyone you feel may be interested! SPREAD THE WORD!! You can also read the newsletter on the ECI website here.

If you have any information or stories from your congregation, parish, meeting or Eco-Congregation I would love to hear from YOU! Please forward your news to me at info@ecocongregationireland.com. Newsletters will be sent out at the end of November 2019 and January 2020.

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Corrymeela Visit Photos

Bronwen and Margrit carried out a pre-gathering visit to the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle today in advance of our residential gathering there in November. For those of you planning to go, who hadn't seen the venue, they thought they would take a few photos

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UQM Update

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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