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Living Faith is a day-long "meeting for learning" gathering of Friends of all ages from throughout New England. The event is a chance for 100+ Friends to worship together, learn more about the Quaker tradition, share the different ways we experience and live our faith, and build spiritual community. This year our theme will be “Spring forth the well: our lives as witness”.
About the theme:
From the deep well of worship and shared listening, our witness springs forth—sometimes as a quiet trickle, sometimes as a bold flow—bringing the Love and Truth we experience inwardly to one another, our meetings, and our wider communities. Together we will explore how the Spirit’s living water rises among us, what has grown from our faithfulness, and how our lives, joined with others, may bear witness in this time.
Join us for an all-ages “Meeting for Learning” that invites us to look at how Friends have let their lives speak, how Friend’s practices sustain lives of witness, and how we are part of a wider witness of people of faith in our local communities and wider world. Together, across generations and experiences, we’ll worship, sing, learn, connect, and give thanks for the river of Light that can flow out of us.
Through dialogue, interactive workshops, worship-sharing, and connection-making, participants will learn more about each other, Quakerism, and the way our faith comes alive through each of us. The day is designed to be energizing and nourishing for both long-time Friends and those new to our tradition. Registration will open in February.
Children & teens:
Note to families: The day opens and closes with programming for all generations, allowing us to be together as a multigenerational community. In between, a concurrent children’s program explores these same themes in ways accessible to Friends ages 12 and younger.
There will also be a weekend Teen Retreat in tandem with Living Faith. Staying nearby, we will have dinner and opening activities on Friday night, and spend most of Saturday at Living Faith. We will recuperate as a group for more retreat activities on Saturday evening at the meetinghouse and will wrap up on Sunday afternoon after worship with the host meeting. For more information on the Teen Retreat, contact Teen & Outreach Ministries Coordinator Xinef Afriam.
About workshops:
Curious about offering a workshop at Living Faith? Learn more and submit a proposal here.
Questions? Suggestions? Email Program Director Nia Thomas.