Readings on Meeting Growth and Vitality

Spiritual Grounding

• The Role of Outreach, Maria Bradley, ed. (as PDF)
• Hospitality in the Manner of Friends, by Nancy Fennell. Friends Journal, 10/2005. (as PDF)
• There is Still a Great People to Be Gathered: A Collection of Thoughts about Outreach, by Jan Greene (as PDF)

Discussion Tools

• Preparing the Way: Queries for Worship Sharing (as PDF)
• Evangelism: A Four-Letter Word?, by Jan Greene (as PDF)
• Inreach-Outreach Review (as PDF)
• Advancement Basics, Part One* (as PDF)
• Advancement Basics, Part Two* (as PDF)
• Workshop on Outreach, by Anne Thomas (as PDF)

Raising Visibility

• Advancement Basics, Part Two: Visibility and Outreach* (as PDF)
• The Plain and Simple Press Release,* by Purchase Quarter Advancement Committee (as PDF)
• Review by Ron Byler of Letting the Light Shine: A Quaker Guide to Using the Media by Simon Risley. Friends Journal, 11/1997. (as PDF)
• Guidelines for Meeting Telephones (as PDF)
• Is Your Quaker Meeting Thinking of Setting Up a Web Site? by Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Advancement & Outreach Committee, 2005. (as PDF)

Understanding Newcomers’ Needs

• Advancement Basics, Part One: First Time Visitors and New Attenders* (as PDF)
• Through a Visitor's Eyes (as PDF)
• Hospitality in the Manner of Friends, by Nancy Fennell. Friends Journal, 10/2005. (as PDF)
• Some Thoughts on Identifying and Welcoming Newcomers (as PDF)
• Seeking Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Welcoming People of Color* (as PDF)
• Being a Friend, by Aliyah Meena Shanti, FGConnections, Spring 2006
• Class and Me, by Errol Hess, Friends Journal, 11/1997, p. 7. (as PDF)
• Friends With Hearing Loss, by Barbara Luetke-Stahlman. Friends Journal, 11/1997. (as PDF)

Sharing Quakerism

• Exploring Quakerism with Newcomers: Experiences From Lake Forest Friends Meeting, by Suzanne Siverling. (as PDF)
• Shared Learning in the Small Meeting or Worship Group* (as PDF)
• Worship Sharing Guidelines (as PDF)

Especially for Small Meetings

• Building a Friends Meeting*
• Reflections on Being Clerk of a Small Meeting,* by Brian Drayton, FGConnections, Spring 2004.
• Shared Learning in the Small Meeting or Worship Group* (as PDF)
• Worship Sharing Guidelines* (as PDF)
• Nurturing the Small Meeting or Worship Group,* by Lynne Phillips, Pastoral Care Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 4, June 2003, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
• Children, Religious Education, and the Small Meeting*

Especially for Worship Groups

• When You're the Only Friend in Town
• Quaker Toolbox - introduction to Quaker process and practice.
• When a Worship Group Wishes to Become a New Monthly Meeting, by Marshall Massey
• Questions and Guidelines for Becoming a Monthly Meeting, by Mountain View (CO) MM
• Shared Learning in the Small Meeting or Worship Group* (as PDF)
• Worship Sharing Guidelines* (as PDF)
• Nurturing the Small Meeting or Worship Group,* by Lynne Phillips, Pastoral Care Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 4, June 2003, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

* Items marked with an asterisk are part of the Inreach-Outreach Packet for Small Meetings, which may be ordered through the Advancement & Outreach Coordinator (outr...@fgcquaker.org).