Please join us at Quaker Heritage Day 2016!

Events, Quaker Heritage Day
We are very pleased to say that registration is now open for Quaker Heritage Day 2016! Please join us on Saturday, 4/16/2015, for "Forgotten Friends' Testimonies (?)" with Marlene Pedigo, recorded minister and author, from Westfield Friends Church in Westfield, Indiana. Please see the PDF below for more information about the topic, the speaker, requested donation, and other particulars. We will post a schedule on our website soon, but for now note that the day will start with registration at 9 AM, and the program will begin with worship at 9:30 AM. Note also that the registration deadline to reserve lunch and/or childcare is Friday, 4/8/2015. You can register online to let us know you are coming--it's quick and easy and secure. Please use it today! Watch for updates on…
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One month to QHD 2013!

Quaker Heritage Day
Quaker Heritage Day 2013 is exactly one month away! Please join us on Saturday, 2/9 for Quaker Christology, Past and Present: Social and Theological Perspectives with Richard Bailey, PhD, of Queens University, Ontario. This promises to be a stimulating examination of Quaker origins and the Quaker understanding of Christ, from the perspective both of early Friends and contemporary scholarship. Registration: please note that the  deadline to reserve lunch and/or childcare is Friday, 2/1/2013. You can register online right now to let us know you are coming--it's super-quick and easy. Schedule for the Day: 9:00 Sign in, enjoy the breakfast buffet, and browse the book table 9:30 Session One: Explore and challenge the view of Rufus Jones that English Quakers were directly connected to spiritualist/mystical movements on the Continent (such as…
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QHD 2012 approacheth!

Quaker Heritage Day
Quaker Heritage Day 2012 is just about a month away! Please join us on Saturday, 3/10/2012 for A Modest Proposal: Participating in God’s Future for Friends, a day of spiritual reflection facilitated by J. Brent Bill. Brent writes: Join us for a day of spiritual reflection and exploring God’s future for Friends. It will be a day focused on positive language, idea generation, learning, sharing, videos, and more, using interactive techniques and tools. You’ll come away from this day with a fresh sense of God’s working with and among us. Most of the information you need can be found in the following places: The flier with full information about Brent, schedule for the day, etc. Our brand-spanking new online registration form! Use it today to let us know you're coming!…
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QHD 2011 is just two weeks away!

Quaker Heritage Day
Earlier this week Wess Daniels posted some preparatory materials for QHD on his blog. We're putting this material in our bulletin this Sunday so folks can start thinking about it. I'd welcome feedback, so please take a look and post your comments here, or on Wess's blog, or somewhere else and let us know. One question that a number of us here at BFC have discussed as we've been  getting ready for this event is what Wess means by "the new creation." Are we talking about new creation in Christ, ala II Corinthians 5:17? Or the new heavens and earth of Revelation 21-22? Or something else? A couple of weeks ago, Wess posted a message on heralds of peace, where he said a little bit about the new creation, including…
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Announcing QHD 2011!

Quaker Heritage Day
Our speaker has already posted about this on his blog, but we've finally got the flyer ready, so here's our announcement of Quaker Heritage Day 2011! The date: Saturday, 2/12/2011 The speaker: Wess Daniels, released minister at Camas Friends Church, Camas, WA Topic: Heralding The New Creation: Mission as Participation in the Quaker Tradition The registration form is here (sorry, it's still snail mail or phone--someday we'll have web registration). Wess has an outline of the sessions and his Sunday message here.
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