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The annual meetings of Australia Yearly Meeting rotate among the seven Regional Meetings. The Australia Yearly Meeting office is based near the Australia Yearly Meeting Secretary, the only full-time employee, at any given time. Australia Yearly Meeting was established as an autonomous Yearly Meeting in 1964.
Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends.
Friends Meeting House, adjacent to St Peter's Cathedral. The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia, literally in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral, on its west side.
Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People: A New Perspective on Quaker Faith and Practice audio» jstor» [12] jstor» [13] 2002 Mark Deasey To Do Justly, And To Love Mercy: learning from Quaker service audio» jstor» [13] 2001 Hendrik W van der Merwe: Reconciling Opposites: Reflections on peacemaking in South Africa audio» jstor ...
The Inman Line, Victorian passenger shipping line on the North Atlantic, founded in 1850 by Irish Quaker industrialist John Grubb Richardson and Englishman William Inman; The International Voluntary Service was founded in 1931 by the Swiss Quaker Pierre Ceresole
Margaret Sturge Thorp (12 June 1892 – 5 May 1978), [1] also known as "The Peace Angel", was a peace activist and labour activist active in Australia in the 20th century. A Quaker, her religious beliefs guided her to a life of advocating for a variety of pacifist and feminist causes.
An annual meeting each January, is hosted by a different Regional Meeting over a seven-year cycle, with a Standing Committee each July or August. The Australia Yearly Meeting published This We Can Say: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought in 2003. Meetings for worship in New Zealand started in Nelson in 1842 and in Auckland in 1885.
Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area.The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings.