Annual Monthly Meeting Advancement /or Outreach Checklist
Adapted from a list originating at an Outreach Conference in 1977
• Does the Meeting have an Advancement &/or Outreach Committee?
• Does it have an outreach contact person for better networking?
• Are First day School and Meeting attendance actively nurtured?
• Are all the young people and associate members encouraged to be active members of the Meeting?
• When members are away at school, does the Meeting notify nearby meetings and arrange to send Quaker journals at its expense?
• Does the Meeting have a newsletter? If so, is it sent not only to those away at school but to all others who are unable to attend the Meeting regularly?
• Is someone appointed by the Meeting to greet visitors and ask if they wish to note their name in the Guest Book?
• Is literature attractively displayed and easily available?
• Are visitors regularly invited to introduce themselves at the close of meeting?
• Are recently-joined Friends given opportunities and assignments which will encourage them as they apply their new-found faith?
• Is there a Meeting plan to encourage its members to visit other Meetings and/or invite other Meetings to visit you?
• Is the Meeting fully and widely known in the area it serves? (Road signs, Yellow Pages, newspaper church listings, regular news items, Welcome Wagon, hotel and motel directories, posters etc.)
• Are there nearby colleges and, if so, is there a plan to communicate with both the faculty and the students?
• Does the Meeting cooperate with and help sponsor local events which could help to carry the message of Quakerism in that local community?
• Has the Meeting or any of its members and committees made use of the Yearly Meeting's Outreach Committee? (Speakers, workshops, literature, ideas, cooperation in arranging an outreach program etc.).
• Does the Meeting keep the Yearly Meeting Outreach Committee's clerk up to date on:
• its outreach contact person?
• its outreach activities and visitations?
• its needs?
This article is from Resources for Fostering Vital Friends Meeting
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