Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers)

A one-day workshop for clerks or people considering being clerks, to provide training and support to help you fulfill this task with an eye on how God is stirring and moving your community.

We believe joy and energy can flow from helping people sense the movement of God. Your role as clerk can become one of joyfully and confidently facilitating this process. Join us as we talk about these elements and provide some concrete training. Specific details will be discussed relating to setting an agenda, working through conflict or dissent, hearing the voice of God in the community, presenting the issue and facilitating the discernment process.






Tuesday, May 18

George Fox University, Cap & Gown Room (between the bookstore and dining hall)

• 9:00-9:30 Worship
• 9:45-11:45 Adventure of Group Discernment Process, Part I
  • Lon Fendall—Good News Associates
  • Jan Wood—Good News Associates
• 11:45-1:30  Lunch together (included in the registration fee)
• 1:30-3:45 pm  Adventure of Group Discernment Process, Part II
  • Lon Fendall & Jan Wood
• 4:00-5:15 pm  Conflict Resolution through Group Discernment
  • Lon Fendall
• 4:00-6 00 pm  Clerking with Joy
  • Debrief and Discussion with Colin Saxton and Bruce Bishop

Price: $30, includes lunch

Home stays can be arranged, for those of you traveling from a distance.

Register HERE

This workshop is part of a larger “Leadership Institute for Group Discernment.”
You are welcome to come to the entire three-day institute if you desire.  Full details for the institute are available at www.goodnewsassoc.org/leadershipinstitute

The NWYM Board of Christian Education and Discipleship, allocates a portion of our budget for grants in the amount of $250 to aid local churches in their education program. This grant should go towards supplies, equipment, facilities, or teacher training that will improve the Christian education of children and/or adults in the local church bodies. These grants are for matching funds, so local church bodies will be stimulated to give an equal amount.

C.E. Grant as a PDF