Concerns of Ministry and Counsel

• Strengthening Our Meetings as Caring Communities, by Arlene Kelly
• Inner Work, by Marty Grundy
• Spiritual Friendships, by Liz Yeats
• Covenant Groups, by Carole Treadway and Liz Yeats
• Processing Leading Through Friends' Community Structures, by Rosa Packard
• What Monthly Meetings Can Do and Teach Friends to Do in Support of Leadings and Peacemaking Efforts, by Rosa Packard
• Clearness Committees, Committees of Care, and Committees of Oversight, by Canadian YM
• Clearness Committees and Their Use in Personal Discernment, by Jan Hoffman
• Responding to Calls to Ministry, by Central Philadelphia MM
• Support Groups, by Mary Lou Leavitt
• What is Ministry?, by Virginia Schurman
• The Ministry of Pastoral Care, by Arlene Kelly
• Tips on Eldering, by Leanna Goerlich and Carol Holmes
• Setting Limits, by Gospel Order Sub-Committee, NYYM
• Signals and Actions, by Gospel Order Sub-Committee, NYYM
• Friends and Conflict, by Jan Greene
• Sense of the Meeting, Sense of the Parking Lot, by Jan Greene
• Compassionate Use of Information, by Portland (ME) Meeting, NEYM
• Addressing Conflict, by Ad Hoc Committee to Address Conflict, NYYM
• The Steps Involved in Following Gospel Order, by Steven Davidson
• Strife in the Meeting, by Outreach Committee, NPYM
• Confrontation, by Bruce Bishop
• Workshop: Meeting Problem-Solving Process, by Jan Greene
• Workshop: Identifying Your Meeting's Conflict Norms and Sanctions, by Jan Greene
• Meeting for Reconciliation, by Steven Davidson
• A Guide for Conducting the Meeting for Reconciliation, by Steven Davidson
• Suggestions for Leading a Worship Sharing Group, by Shirley Dodson
• Spiritual Assessment Guidelines, by Marcia A. Schnorr
• Towards a Gathered Friends Community, by Leanna Goerlich

What Monthly Meetings Can Do and Teach Friends To Do In Support of Leadings and Peacemaking Efforts

By Rosa Covington Packard, 1966

meeting for worship, prayer, worship sharing

providing clearness, oversight, support;

clerking meetings to seek unity in the Spirit;

taking minutes to record decisions, sufferings, reports;

accounting for contributions and expenses

naming and nurturing gifts of the Spirit and leadings;

providing letters of travel and minutes of service;

providing spiritual companionship;

releasing Friends to follow leadings and ministry

relationship with the media; relationship with authorities;

hospitality to traveling Friends and Friends groups;

computer check-in and networking for traveling Friends

organizing workshops, conferences; organizing vigils;

organizing offices and peace centers; organizing delegations;

organizing study groups; organizing coalitions

prison visits, material aid programs;

unarmed visible presence, patrols, and accompaniment;

mediation, negotiation, off the record meetings;

listening and dialogue in times of grief and conflict;

alternatives to violence programs (AVP, CCRC, HIPP);

counseling those troubled in conscience by participation in war;

listening project community surveys;

education and service programs, including specific skills training.