Summary
Workshop Number: 07
Leaders: Jorge Arauz
Who May Register?: Intergenerational (50% high school and young adults, 50% older)
Worship/Worship-Sharing: 100%
Who May Attend?
drop-in attenders welcome (may attend any session)
We extend the time we regularly employ for worship in our meetings. Thus, we make ourselves more available to the loving and transforming influence of God Spirit in our lives, hearts and minds. Expectations, hopes: Create a space for Friends seeking the deeper levels of spiritual intimacy that prolonged worship offers. Areas or topics: Worship…
Workshop Description
We extend the time we regularly employ for worship in our meetings. Thus, we make ourselves more available to the loving and transforming influence of God Spirit in our lives, hearts and minds.
Expectations, hopes: Create a space for Friends seeking the deeper levels of spiritual intimacy that prolonged worship offers.
Areas or topics: Worship has no programming. Each of us, along with the worshiping community, open ourselves to the direct, unmediated presence of God Spirit and her transforming activity within us, and among us.
Format: We follow the practice of old: meeting starts with the first person that enters the worship space. Frequently Friends arrive and settle into silence before the scheduled starting time. After the close of meeting we generally stay for introductions and to allow for Friends to share, as led, an aspect of the worship experience that was meaningful to them.
Recommendations: “Come as you are, wherever you are.”
Specific requests, materials: None.
Leader Experience
Jorge Arauz has been convening extended Meeting for Worship at FGC Gathering since 2004, every year, except 2025.