Preparing hearts & minds - preview
The FWCC Triennial, 11-19 August 2007, will bring together Friends from across the world. Coordinator Lee Taylor, of Luton & Leighton MM, outlines the programme and tells non-attending Friends how they can be involved
2007 is an important year for linking Friends around the world The 22nd World Triennial conference is being held in August this year in Dublin, Ireland Ireland Yearly Meeting is hosting the Triennial, which is being organised by the International Planning Committee of the Friends World Committee for Consultation
Many British Friends are interested and involved in international Quaker activity – but many may be unaware of the wider world family World membership is more than 365,000 in some seventy-three countries in the world – which provides a perspective on BYM membership of fewer than 20,000 There are four international sections: Africa – where there are over 130,000 Friends in Kenya alone; the Americas – where Guatemala has over 23,000 members, for example; Asia-West Pacific and Europe and the Middle East AWP and EMES are the two smaller sections, with less than five per cent of world membership each Friends differ not only in language, culture and national allegiance, but also in the emphases they place on different aspects of Quakerism The World Gathering of Young Friends found that this diversity was enriching but often challenging for participants
Lee Taylor
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