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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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Inspiration

Ministry may be understood in many ways. There is the ministry of our lives, giving witness and testimony to that which is asked of us to make the world anew. There is the ministry of the word, spoken from the depths of a heart and mind prepared. There is a ministry of teaching and learning, with and from each other. There is a ministry of spirited and spiritual listening, where we seek and open ourselves in expectation and hope, and there is a ministry of disciplined upholding of one another, and of the ways in which we might discern together.

All ministry is underpinned by worship, and this worship lies at the heart of us gathering together this week. As we gather, we connect with one another. This is the spirit of what the Zulus call Ubuntu, that we are, who we are, because of these connections.

And here, in York, we join one another, called to live up to the light we have, individually, corporately and together, so that more may be given us, so that we may become a joyful community of god’s purpose.

We were asked to be inspired and inspiring, but it is our discipline of worship together that prepares us to be inspired ourselves

Paul Parker & Lizz Roe, Gathering co-clerks

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