World Quaker Day

Join Friends after daily worship, as our Friend in Residence Jennifer Kavanagh shares on the theme of “being now,” reflecting on everyday life as worship, slowing down, and taking time out. You can also check out her lecture on No Other: a journey into oneness, which she gave in South Africa in 2016. The last word of the lecture is the theme of this year’s World Quaker Day: ubuntu.

The Friends World Committee for Consultation – Section of the Americas has some additional resources for Friends wishing to celebrate!

We are inviting Friends to read and share the epistle and the tapestry from the World Plenary with your local Friends community.

You may also visit a Quaker meeting or church that is different from yours and read and discuss the epistle, and/or the tapestry document with that community.

If you need help finding a Quaker meeting, please use our new map of all meetings in the Americas available at fwccdirectory.org.

Leader

Jennifer Kavanagh will be Pendle Hill’s Friend in Residence beginning in fall 2024. Jennifer became a Quaker in 1995. She gave up a career in publishing to work with those on the margins: people in poverty, homeless, or in prison. Jennifer is an associate tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and now spends most of her time writing, speaking, and running retreats on the Spirit-led life. She has published twelve non-fiction books and three novels.

Jennifer finds balancing an active life with a pull towards contemplation a continuing and fruitful challenge. As she writes, “Life in the world is about a series of balances: of the life within and the outside world; inner experience and outward witness, plenitude and the void.”

You can learn more about Jennifer at https://www.jenniferkavanagh.co.uk/.