{"id":7226,"date":"2024-09-26T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:05:38","slug":"world-quaker-day-october-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=7226","title":{"rendered":"World Quaker Day, October 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Quaker Day 2024:  October 6 &#8212; from Friends World Committee for Consultation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2024, around 500 Quakers from 53 countries met for the World Plenary Meeting in South Africa and online to tend to FWCC business, surrounded by worship and fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This World Quaker Day, Sunday 6 October 2024, Friends everywhere are invited to find out and share what happened at their local Friends church or meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WPM-2024-epistle_KiSwahili-Espanol-English.pdf\"><strong>epistle&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WPM-2024-tapestry-and-prayer_KiSwahili-Espanol-English.pdf\"><strong>weaving document with a prayer<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;that brings together the different plenary conversations are all available in the conference languages, KiSwahili, Spanish and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod has no hands but ours, no feet but ours, no lips but ours, so we keep imagining a better world. I am because you are. I am because we are. I see you. We belong to each other. We are still here. We are one.\u201d<br><em>\u2014from the World Plenary epistle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod of love and grace, we are a beautiful and broken people, living in a beautiful and broken world\u2026 Grant us the strength to seek each other\u2019s forgiveness, and the love and&nbsp; courage to hold both pain and possibility in our hearts.\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u2014from&nbsp;<\/em><em>the weaving document prayer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WPM-2024-YAF-Epistle-all-languages-1.pdf\">Young Adult Friends epistle<\/a><\/strong>, relating the experience of 46 18-35 year-olds who gathered four days before the World Plenary and who formed a new World Executive Committee of Young Adult Friends, is also available in the conference languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;epistle will be read at a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fwccemes.org\/calendar\/world-quaker-day-2024\">semi-programmed online meeting for worship &nbsp;<\/a>hosted by the Europe and Middle East Section, and an event in Uganda organised by the Africa Section. Both are open to all.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends may also want to take part by singing from the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/new-contents-list-for-world-quaker-songbook-published\/\">World Quaker Songbook.<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;To learn the tunes, listen to Quaker and musician,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLQnET8HvlED88EW8ZMafghoY75UwsJWYQ\">Amy Duckett Wagner sing the songs<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;on our YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Friends who wish to engage more deeply with the themes discussed at the World Plenary can watch the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLQnET8HvlED_xKZuOFhK4AMsapDG37pDW&amp;si=dTZxSXaE3eIZq2yn\">videos of speakers\u2019 prepared ministry<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;also on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WPM453967162_837191751863741_2765545989411701401_n-1100x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77490\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Quaker Day 2024: October 6 &#8212; from Friends World Committee for Consultation In August 2024, around 500 Quakers from 53 countries met for the World Plenary Meeting in South Africa and online to tend to FWCC business, surrounded by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=7226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quaker-organizations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-1Sy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}