Welcoming Newcomers
Understanding Newcomers’ Needs
- Advancement Basics, Part One: First Time Visitors and New Attenders* (as PDF)
- Through a Visitor's Eyes (as PDF)
- Hospitality in the Manner of Friends, by Nancy Fennell. Friends Journal, 10/2005. (as PDF)
- Some Thoughts on Identifying and Welcoming Newcomers (as PDF)
- Seeking Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Welcoming People of Color* (as PDF)
- Being a Friend, by Aliyah Meena Shanti, FGConnections, Spring 2006
- Class and Me, by Errol Hess, Friends Journal, 11/1997, p. 7. (as PDF)
- Friends With Hearing Loss, by Barbara Luetke-Stahlman. Friends Journal, 11/1997. (as PDF)
Literature for Newcomers
- For Religious Seekers
- Our Continuing Mission: To Seek Out New Light - A Guide for Young People to the Rhyme and Reason behind Meeting for Worship. (as PDF)
- Inquirers' Packet
- Friends and...
FGC has produced a series of pamphlets about various facets of Quaker faith: - Friends and Children
- Friends and God
- Friends and Other Religions
- Friends and Service
- Friends and the Bible
- Friends and the Seeker
- Friends and Social Change
- Friends and their Spiritual Message
- Friends and Violence
- Friends and Weddings
- Friends and Womenkind
- Friends and Worship
Other Resources for Newcomers
- QuakerFinder.org: Find Friends and Quaker Meetings near you.
- QuakerFinder for Isolated Friends
- Quaker Information Center
- Making Connections
Courses for Newcomers
- Exploring Quakerism
- Quakerism 101
- Quaker Toolbox - introduction to Quaker process and practice.
- Friendly Bible Study
- Friendly Faith & Practice Study Guide
- Conference centers
