Dorchester Quaker Local Meeting
All events take place in the Meeting House in Holloway Road unless otherwise specified. Please see other pages of the website for directions.
Meeting for Worship each Sunday in the Meeting House 10.30am All Welcome.
Worship is followed by informal time together over tea and coffee in the kitchen at the meeting house.
December 2024
1st December Meeting for Worship at 10.30
8th December Meeting for Worship at 10.30
15th December Meeting for Worship at 10.30
18th December (Wednesday) Mid Week Meeting for Worship 12.30 to 1 followed by shared lunch ending at 2pm (bring food to share) led by the Eldership and Pastoral Care Friends.
22nd December Meeting for Worship at 10.30 followed by a Christmas themed bring and share lunch. We welcome soft drinks and juices to share but remind Friends that no alcohol is permitted in the Meeting House. All welcome.
24th December Christian Aid Carol Singing will be outside Barclays Bank in South St from 9.30am to 10.30am on Tuesday 24th December. Everyone is welcome to join the singers. The more the merrier! Friends are encouraged to join in this to help to raise funds for Christian Aid.
25th December Meeting for Worship to mark Western Christmas Day. 10.30 for 45 minutes.
29th December Meeting for Worship at 10.30
January 2025
5th January Meeting for Worship at 10.30
12th January Meeting for Worship at 10.30
13th January Area Quaker Meeting which will be held online.
19th January Meeting for Worship at 10.30
22nd January (Wednesday) Mid Week Meeting for Worship 12.30 to 1 followed by shared lunch ending at 2pm (bring food to share) led by the Eldership and Pastoral Care Friends.
26th January Meeting for Worship at 10.30
February 2025
2nd February Meeting for Worship at 10.30 followed by Local Quaker Business Meeting from 12 noon until 1pm. All are welcome to attend this meeting.
9th February Meeting for Worship at 10.30
15th February Day workshop in the Dorchester Quaker Meeting House on the subject of an event entitled Future of British Quakerism. It will be led by some Friends and an Attender who attended a conference of that name in October 2024. The Area Meeting appointed Alex R of Salisbury LQM to attend and she did so in person. The AQM also appointed Jeni E of Bridport LQM who attended online. Others attended in a personal capacity. This event will run from 10 am and finish by 2.30 pm.
16th February Meeting for Worship at 10.30
19th February (Wednesday) Mid Week Meeting for Worship 12.30 to 1 followed by shared lunch ending at 2pm (bring food to share) led by the Eldership and Pastoral Care Friends.
23rd February Meeting for Worship at 10.30
March 2025
Local Quaker Business Meeting
These are held every two months and all are welcome to attend (next one is to be held in February 2025). Next Area Quaker Meeting will be online. The Clerking team are currently Marigold, Mike and Tess who share the Clerking responsibilities (clerks.dorchester@gmail.com). Please contact one of them if you have an item which you want to be included in the agenda for LQBM. Minutes are taken at these meetings so please ask an Elder if you would like to see them.
For those who asked about the donation to Britain Yearly Meeting, please see the Charity Commission website which illustrates the finances of BYM which can be found under charity number 1127633.
The Meeting is to have a reading group in 2025 (no firm dates or arrangements made as yet) and the first book is to be “Life After Doom” by Brian McLaren published by Hodder and Stoughton |May 2024.
Elders are proposing to have a residential weekend away at Othona in 2025. The dates are 21st to 23rd March. Please ensure these are in your diary.
Quakers Talking events online
Monthly sessions held online and open to Friends in the south and southwest of England.
There is no need to book just drop in. Please use the same Zoom link for all sessions.
7pm – 8.30 pm
Tuesday 14 th January:
Creative visions – How will we thrive in 2025?
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://quaker.zoom.us/j/87484081532?pwd=WQuQ2XYE4MgmwW7sFtbG40gs9xGDoG.1
Meeting ID: 874 8408 1532
Passcode: 325855
Church events in Dorchester (Our representative on Churches Together in Dorchester is Sarah)
Please remember to contribute to the Food Bank by dropping items off at the Dorford Church in Bridport Road. There will be a collection made at the same Dorford Church for Dorchester Family Support Christmas Food Hampers which are given to those families entitled to free school meals in the area during the Christmas break.
Firm Roots is a Christian cancer support group. Dorchester Family Church Office: 2 Red Cow Business
Park, Long Bridge Way, Dorchester DT1 1YD Join us for friendship, encouragement, reflections, refreshments and prayer for anyone affected by cancer.
Everyone welcome. Email: dorsetfirmroots@admin
Please also get in touch if you would like to go on our prayer list and our group will pray for you.
www.firmroots.org.uk
Acorn Christian Healing Foundation Dorchester Hub The Quiet Space Poundbury DT1 3RG
Second Wednesday and Third Friday of each month 10.30-12.00 All very welcome, any faith or none
OTHER EVENTS OR OPPORTUNITIES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN
Individual Quakers are involved in a range of social action activities and some are mentioned here.
Quakers are part of the World Wide Family of Quakers and the Around Europe Newsletter has articles from various aspects of Quaker activity across the Europe and Middle East Section latest issue of Among Friends.
Friends Peace Teams (FPT) Updates
A new issue of the Friends Peace Teams PeaceWays newsletter is now available on-line; https://friendspeaceteams.org/stories/peaceways/ Check it out to learn about world-wide peacebuilding efforts by thousands of Quakers and friends in dozens of countries across five regions globally.
For those interested in the demonstrations and protests in relation to Israel and Palestine, there is a Dorset Palestine Solidarity Campaign which can be followed through these links.
Facebook: https://fb.me/e/awqc2ZXll
Twitter/X: https://x.com/dorsetpsc/status/1851643419065532557
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwPIBxNFoB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Contact dorsetpsc1@admin or dorsetstopthewar@gmail.com
The Quaker Socialist Society meets online from time to time – and had a meeting on how we promote Quaker values in state schools and private Quaker schools. Prof Francis Green spoke about his book on private schools: Engines of Privilege. See the Quaker Socialist Society website for further details. Also, a lecture on George Fox by Graham Taylor, which quotes some of Fox’s unpublished work, is on https://quakersocialists.org.uk/
We encourage Friends to see a Lecture by Revd Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Christian on https://quakersocialists.org.uk/.