On Saturday Cropwell hosted the gathering of Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting. “The Quarter” is a group of 9 Quaker Meetings in Burlington, Camden, and Atlantic Counties that meets four times a year. Around two dozen Friends scrapped off the effects of a small snow storm the night before to travel to Marlton, with some coming in remotely via Zoom on a screen we installed for the event.
We began with half an hour of worship, then a period of open worship sharing on Rex Ambler’s pamphlet Living in Dark Times. The Quarter had delivered a small supply of copies to each meeting. It was also available as a YouTube of the original speech (see below).
After a pizza lunch, the Quarter came back for its meeting for business. A treasury report from Steve Willis of Medford Meeting led to an approved budget for the next year. An environmental report from Ruth Darlington outlined a number of initiatives taking place in the yearly meeting and quarter. We also had an update on the Faith and Play initiative, a project to expand children religious-education programs in meetings (Cropwell is participating in this and hopes to offer some First-day school classes in the near future).