OUTREACH GOALS
- To develop ways of informing the public about who Quakers are, what they believe, and how Quakers address social concerns in the world.
- To continue to encourage individual witness and action, as well as, joining efforts that help the elderly, homeless, disabled, and those experiencing personal distress.
- To remind the members of our Meeting that we should not be overly concerned with our own survival but instead we should respond to the needs of the world as God intends.
- To strengthen the Meeting’s relationships with Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Friends United Meeting, Wilmington College, other Quaker organizations and Meetings, and other congregations, organizations, and communities as we feel led.
By their fruits ye shall know them. ----Matthew 7:20
“Let your lives speak.” ---- George Fox
“Does Christian worship enable or disenable us, encourage or discourage us, to spot, confront and work against the political, social and economic horrors of our time? Does it remake our everyday lives, shaping and equipping us to both admit and resist tragedy, and to celebrate and cultivate God-given goodness and joy? Do our week-in and week-out praise and prayer and study as the church open our eyes, or do they not? Do we feel at all times, exactly as Christians, involved in the real thing, or are we continually choking down suspicions that what we do, and where we are, is not the real world?
If our conceptions of church and the Christian life so disarm us, that in itself is proof that we have abandoned the faith---the culture, the way of life ---of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus.”
----From A Peculiar People, Rodney Clapp
