Ramallah/ Shindig 2014 – big thanks

Thanks to Ros Normandale’s sterling fundraising we have enough funds to host once more two students from the Friends School in Ramallah at this year’s Shindig.

The student counsellor there is really up-beat about this project and I know it does make for some friendships and connections between our young people.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed and a big thank you again to Ros.

Good news re Ramallah/Shindig

Big thanks to the Sir James Reckitt Charity for giving a great donation to our Ramallah/ Shindig appeal.

And equally big thanks to Ros Normandale for doing all the spadework in getting the application together.

Thanks Ros!

Christmas Greetings

Happy Christmas Friends!

Remembrance Day Service Radio 4

Remembrance Day Service Radio 4

A lovely and moving service from BBC Radio 4 this morning. It talked of the waste of war and followed a theme which I won’t spoil by posting here. Really well worth listening to.

Ramallah/ Shindig

Ros N. and I had a v useful meeting yesterday looking forward to inviting two more Ramallah Friends School students to Shindig next summer. Will keep you posted on developments.

Announcement re talk on Villages Group

Saturday 5 October 10.30am, Newcastle

Brunswick Methodist Church, Brunswick Place, near Monument

Hamed Qwasameh – a founder member of The Villages Group –
is visiting us on the final leg of a two-week speaking tour of the UK

• following a screening of the short documentary ‘ My Home is Everything’, the work of a young Palestinian film-maker from the village of Susiya  in the occupied South Hebron Hills,  Hamed will share the latest news of the Susiya community’s struggle to avert the compulsory requisition and demolition of their homes by the Israeli Government, and The Villages Group’s ongoing work in Israel-Palestine.

• Admission free,  retiring collection in aid of The Villages Group

An infinite ocean

Seabirds riding winter surf

‘I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.’ George Fox’s Journal