Response to the Pandemic

18/03/20 12:37 Filed in: SBQM Update

South Belfast Meeting has considered the current pandemic and made a decision to cease all Sunday Morning Meetings for Worship with immediate affect. This has not been an easy decision, but one which keeps us all as safe a possible in the current situation.

It is important that we continue to support and uphold each other as a worshipping community during this time.

We will keep you all posted when this changes either through this site, our facebook page or the email group.

We have also decided to cancel the remaining mid-week Meetings for Worship on the first Thursdays of each month. Hopefully we will be able to restart these again in September.

ONLINE MEETING FOR WORSHIP

If you are self-isolating or social-distancing, why not join an online 30 minute Meeting for Worship through Woodbrooke:
* Sundays at 10:30 (1 hour long)
* Sundays at 19:30
* Wednesdays at 09:30
* Thursdays at 11:00 (1 hour long)
* Thursdays at 19:30
* Fridays at 13:00
They offer 30-minute worship on Wednesdays and Fridays via Adobe Connect, and use Zoom for their other meetings throughout the week.

https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/about/online-mfw/

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)