Resources

-Visibility and Outreach

Helpful hints on how to increase your meeting's visibility and attract visitors

-Inreach/Outreach Review

Helpful questions for meeting's to consider when considering community.

-Website

A website is often the first stop a newcomer makes.  It is important to have up-to-date and accurate information available, especially when a newcomer is seeking your meeting out for the first time.

Make sure your information is correct on www.quakerfinder.org.  If you need to make corrections, let us know through our online form Quaker Finder Corrections.

Examples: Putney Friends Meeting, Albany Friends Meeting, Newtown Friends Meeting

-Newcomers Cards

• You are Welcome Here

• How Quaker Meetings Work

• Quaker Testimonies

• Quakers and Prayer

*Please use the instructions for printing, found HERE.

-First Time Visitors and Attenders

Helpful insights into what attracts newcomers and what makes them stay. 

-Seeker's Booklist

Great reads for newcomers to Quakerism 

-Welcoming Newcomers

Fairly comprehensive list of resources for welcoming newcomers.

-Informational Leaflets about families, traditions, and intergnerational activities for meetings.  Free to print from Friends General Conference.

• Families and Traditions

• Intergenerational

• Young Adults

-Seeking Racial and Ethnic Diversity

-Religious Education

Helpful resources for meetings and educators

-Forming a Core Group

Information about the creation and function of a core group.

-Informational Classes

Advice on setting up informational classes as a means of preparing your meeting for Public Sessions.

-Request Exercises and Resources from the Full-Day Workshop 

Exercises for meetings that have completed the FDW and would like to use the exercises to further prepare for Public Sessions.

-What is the Half-Day Preparation Session?

Information on the structure and intent of a HDPS.

-After Public Sessions

Some advice on ways to stay connected once your meeting has completed Public Sessions

Is your meeting looking to do Public Sessions and needs more resources?  Contact the Quaker Quest Staff HERE!

 Steps of the Quaker Quest Process.

Good press and advertising are essential for the success of any public event.  Below we have some great ideas we’ve collected and from other meetings who have held public sessions.  These ideas can be used in a wide range of venues!

-Request FGC poster templates 

-Hallmarks of Quaker Quest

Communications are written to reflect these attributes and other learning.

-Website

Be sure to showcase information about Public Sessions prominantly on your website.

-Purposes and General Tips

-More Tips

-Samples 

Publicity examples from other meetings that have held Public Sessions.