SOUTH BELFAST QUAKERS

That of God in everyone

The South Belfast Quakers Lending Library

We are fortunate to have a small library of Quaker and Quaker adjacent reading materials. These are available for members and regular attenders to borrow and return. You'll find a "signing out and in" book one of the cabinets in the main Meeting House foyer. Below is a list of our current catalogue.


This advice on the conduct of meetings for church affairs was set down at a Quarterly Meeting in Wiltshire in 1678:


For the preservation of love, concord and a good decorum in this meeting, 'tis earnestly desired that all business that comes before it be managed with gravity and moderation, in much love and Amity, without reflections or retorting, which is but reasonable as well as comely, since we have no other obligation upon each other but love, which is the very bond of our society: and therein to serve the Truth and one another; having an eye single to it, ready to sacrifice every private interest to that of Truth, and the good of the whole community.
Wherefore let whatsoever is offered, be mildly proposed, and so left with some pause, that the meeting may have opportunity to weigh the matter, and have a right sense of it, that there may be a unanimity and joint concurrence of the whole. And if anything be controverted that it be in coolness of Spirit calmly debated, each offering their reasons and sense, their assent, or dissent, and so leave it without striving. And also that but one speak at once, and the rest hear. And that private debates and discourses be avoided, and all attend the present business of the Meeting. So will things be carried on sweetly as becomes us, to our comfort: and love and unity be increased: and we better serve Truth and our Society.

Quaker Faith and Practice 19.57



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Ministry and Oversight surveyed the members and attenders of our meeting about a range of issues concerning their experiences and involvement with South Belfast Quaker Meeting. One of these questions related to the reasons why people chose to worship here. The text from their answers was put into a piece of software which looked for regularly used words. Above is the “word cloud” it created. The larger the word, the more frequently it occurred in respondents answers.



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