FGConnections:
A Meeting to Meeting Newsletter published by Friends General Conference

Spring 1997

In This Issue:

  • Cleveland Meeting Nurtures Ministry
  • Ministry and Eldership: Some Definitions
  • FGC Proposes Supporting Travel in the Ministry
  • Responding to Calls to Ministry
  • Yearly Meeting Supports and is Supported by Ministry
  • Resources on Supporting Ministry and Eldership
  • FGConnections Home: Masthead, Next Issue and Coming Events
  • Resources on Supporting Ministry and Eldership

    available from the FGC Bookstore


    Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas
    Friends seeking to nurture and deepen ministry in their meetings for worship will find remarkably clear, specific, and relevant. PH & Tract, 1989, 104 pp. $8.50

    Gifts and Ministries
    An essay about eldership intended to stimulate discussion on matters of pastoral care and spiritual leadership. QHS, 1993, 23 pp. $5.00

    Deepening the Spiritual Life of the Meeting by Edward Hoare
    "How do we deepen the spiritual life of the meeting?" FGC, 10 pp., 1995 $1.00

    Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees
    by Patricia Loring
    Articulates the use of clearness committees as instruments of discernment. PHP 305, 1992, 32 pp. $3.00

    Clearness Committees and Their Use in Personal Discernment by Jan Hoffman
    A clearness committee meets with a person who is unclear on how to proceed in a keenly felt concern or dilemma, hoping that it can help this person reach clarity. Pamphlet describes practical steps. newly revised, 1996 $.25

    Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community
    by Sandra L. Cronk
    This essay concentrates on the communal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of meeting community life. PHP 297, 1991, 48 pp. $3.00

    Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order by Lloyd Lee Wilson
    Essays addressing facets of faith and practice. PH, 1996, reprint, 200 pp. $10.50

    Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman Phillips Moulton, ed.
    Definitive edition of the journal of this Quaker minister. FUP, 1989, 336 pp. $10.95

    The Prophetic Stream by William P. Taber
    A call to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity. PHP 256, 1984 $10.50


    Last updated: May 22, 1997
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