Hereford & Mid-Wales Area Meeting

MM Spiritual Review

Hereford and Mid-Wales AM E&Os Spiritual Life Report Group

1. Remit
   Minute 3 from the AM E&Os meeting (held at Almeley on 22 April) refers:

    “We have received Monthly Meeting’s request for a Review.  With a number of possible constitutional changes (some of them major) likely to be clarified within a short time, we believe it would be wise to delay a full Review for now.  However, there are some present concerns to be considered and we ask a small group of Kit Byatt, Libby Hudson (subject to consent) Eileen Kemp, Sonia Kuznetsov and possibly one other) to consider some of the first steps in such a Review and report to us in October.  We were reminded that Spiritual Life includes the whole of our life. Friends in our meetings are invited to send comments to the group (, or by post or phone) to help them in their work.”

2. Members
     Kit Byatt (convenor), Libby Hudson, Eileen Kemp, Sonia Kuznetsov

3. Resources

  1. Quaker Faith and Practice - Chapter 12.16 (SLRs), and Chapter 4 (MMs)
  2. E&Os handbook - no. 3 Spiritual Reviews
  3. Alan Rowland’s summary of current arrangements
  4. “mindmap” from meeting of 8 July
  5. Quaker Life Committee (awaiting response)
  6. RECAST report to BYM 2005 (Section 3: Area Meetings & their Local Meetings)
  7. ‘Spiritual Reviews’ article by Barbara Windle
  8. AM Annual Report
  9. letter to The Friend (published 18 Aug 2006)
  10. Norwich & King’s Lynn AM Spiritual Review initiative
  11. constituent PMs’ recent spiritual life reviews?
  12. ‘The Squif’s Charter’ article by Pamela Coren in The Friend, 15 Sep 06

4. Timescale
     Report back to MM E&Os meeting, Sat 14th October, at Llandrindod Wells