Quaker Committee Clerking: Best Practices in Friends Service

​Much of the work of our Quaker meetings, organizations, and communities and done via committee. Committee clerks play a special role guiding groups of Friends into meaningful service while keeping the “big picture” of their committee’s purpose as well as many assorted details in focus. 

​Join us for a two-part workshop on Best Practices for Quaker Committee Clerks. In our time together (two 90-minute sessions over Zoom), we will explore both spiritual and practical aspects of committee clerking including:

• ​How Friends' understanding of Spirit-led decision making can be practiced within the context of committee work

• ​How committee clerks can help draw out gifts and grow new leadership

• ​The nuts-and-bolts side of committee work including best practices related to maintaining committee files, creating agendas, managing projects, delegating tasks, and communicating between meetings

• ​The ways committee service can be a heartfelt expression of our faith as Friends

​This workshop is appropriate for new or returning committee clerks as well as Friends considering stepping into a committee clerk role in the future.

​This workshop will be facilitated by two experienced committee clerks and workshop facilitators: Sarah Gant of Beacon Hill (MA) Meeting and Nia Thomas of Northampton (MA) Meeting

​This is a pay-as-led (sliding scale) event with a suggested fee of $20. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.