Overseers help create a sense of community and friendship in meetings.
Overseers have a wide variety of responsibilities, set out in detail in Quaker Faith & Practice. In a Quaker sense, oversight is the providing of pastoral and practical care and support. Each overseer tries to maintain a supportive relationship with a number of members of the meeting. Each Friend or attender has a personal, dedicated overseer.
Overseers also guide and advise newcomers about matters of members.
For information about our elders please see this page.
Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, … and helping one another up with a tender hand.
Isaac Penington 1667
MEET OUR CURRENT OVERSEERS
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