NURTURING GOALS
- To nurture a basic biblical and Quaker understanding of faith among members of the Meeting and to introduce the same to new members to the Meeting.
- To challenge members to practice their faith in their daily lives --- at home and at work.
- To provide opportunity and encouragement for persons to become leaders within our Meeting and in the larger Society of Friends.
- To arrange time and space for persons to study and struggle with the tough issues of faith and life. The hard questions need to be faced in order to find where we stand, what we believe in and why we believe.
- To place particular emphasis on nurturing children and young people in Quaker-Christian faith including opportunities for them to participate in social action activities.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. ----John 14:6
“----we can conceive of Christianity as a way of life, as a specific manner of being and doing in the world ----- it (is) possible for the church not merely to be relevant to culture but to be a culture (a cultivating process that produces people in a particular way) -----and not merely to contribute to politics from the sidelines but to do politics of a peculiar kind --- a kind that once turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6) ------- (and) like the church in its earliest days.”
From A Peculiar People by Rodney Clapp
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the laws and the prophets. ---Matthew 22:37-40
