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The Gathering in York is now over - but we hope Friends present and absent will continue the spirit of the Gathering through the rest of the year and beyond!

On this website you can continue to read and listen to the speakers' presentations, watch the videos made during the week, and read the other articles posted during the week using the tag cloud links below.

We hope you will continue to use the Woodbrooke Workpack (and keep an eye out for the follow-up workpacks), and also add your comments to the individual articles here, on the YMGBlog, on the discussion forum, and in your own meetings and communities.

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Woodbrooke Good Lives Project: Why Quakers in Britain should ... January 19, 2010
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Quaker Concern For Animals » Blog Archive » AT LEAST MENTION THE V ... January 14, 2010
Yearly Meeting Gathering – another response September 19, 2009
Pagans at YMG! August 8, 2009
the final bits of #ymg09 content have been uploaded to www.ymg.org.uk - we ho... August 7, 2009
Sheffield Quakers: Yearly Meeting Gathering 2009 (the long version) August 7, 2009
epilogue August 6, 2009
highlights August 5, 2009

Journeys in the Spirit

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2009 will explore the theme “Creating community, creating connections”. The theme of Junior Yearly Meeting, which is taking place as part of YMG is Ubuntu (a person is only a person through their relationship to others). Ubuntu is a Zulu word and does not translate easily into English. It emphasises our interdependence and our sharing in one another’s joys and sorrows. It’s meaning is expressed well in the words of Michael Sorensen:

“We are all poorer for the crushing of one man, since the dimming of the Light anywhere darkens us all”.
Quaker Faith and Practice 23.09

The latest issue of Journeys in the Spirit brings these themes together. The activities approach the idea of community from a variety of angles, aiming to prepare young people for the YMG and JYM programmes.

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