posted by k
Every year, Quakers in Britain have a sort of annual general meeting called, quite sensibly, "Yearly Meeting." It lasts for several days and all members are invited to attend. This weekend, Yearly Meeting is at Friends House in London and there may be as many as 1,000 Quakers there.
Decisions are reached by all the people present - by agreement of everyone and not by voting. It's a matter of listening to what other people say with openness - it might be expressed as waiting on the Spirit or in some other way.
So far as I know, only one person from Beeston Meeting will be attending - he's 16 and will be taking part in the Young People's programme.
I'll be following the BYM blog - if anything gets posted there. This year BYM will be twittering - see twitter.com/quakers.
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