Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business provides an opportunity for Friends to practice several of our testimonies as we carry out the practical work of maintaining our faith community. We seek to be Spirit-led in our work, with as much efficiency as possible, and so ask that you use the following guidelines.
- When you are led to speak, ask the clerk to recognize you by raising your hand or making eye contact and waiting for acknowledgment.
- To affirm something someone has said, simply nod or use the phrase, "This Friend speaks my mind." Please don't ask to be recognized so that you may express the same thought in other words.
- When you speak, please keep your comments to the point.
- Friends will not generally be recognized to speak on any given issue more than once, except to acknowledge a personal change of perspective during the meeting. The clerk may not call on everyone if there is a clear sense of the meeting. We are seeking the sense of the meeting.
- When the recording clerk is developing a minute, sit in worship, and hold him/her in the Light. Please refrain from conversation with your neighbor.
- When a person speaks in Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business, receive the words as you receive vocal ministry in Meeting for Worship--with an open heart and calm mind.
- If you feel that the gathering needs a break or a stretch, it is appropriate to ask to be recognized so that you may ask the clerk for one. However, if you personally need a break simply leave quietly when no one is speaking and return, waiting until no one is speaking to take your seat.
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