Welcoming Newcomers

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)

Literature for Newcomers

• For Religious Seekers
• Inquirers' Packet
• Friends and...
  FGC has produced a series of pamphlets about various facets of Quaker faith:
  • Friends and Children
  • Friends and God
  • Friends and Other Religions
  • Friends and Service
  • Friends and the Bible
  • Friends and the Seeker
  • Friends and Social Change
  • Friends and their Spiritual Message
  • Friends and Violence
  • Friends and Weddings
  • Friends and Womenkind
  • Friends and Worship
• Basic Quakerism Book Lists
• pamphlets.quaker.org
• Friends Journal - articles, poetry, letters, art, and news that convey the contemporary experience of Friends

Other Resources for Newcomers

• QuakerFinder.org: Find Friends and Quaker Meetings near you.
• QuakerFinder for Isolated Friends
• Quaker Information Center
• Making Connections

Courses for Newcomers

• Exploring Quakerism
• Quakerism 101
• Quaker Toolbox - introduction to Quaker process and practice.
• Friendly Bible Study
• Friendly Faith & Practice Study Guide
• Conference centers