Outreach through the tapestry
A tranquil display excites interest in Quakers
From the woman who came in following an Ash Wednesday service, where no-one spoke to her, through the man who slept on the Meeting House porch, to the young man who said: ‘Cool’, when I described Quaker faith & practice to him, they all came.
Yet again I marvelled at the variety of people visiting the Quaker Tapestry Roadshow, this time in Brighton Friends Meeting House. ‘We saw the advertising banner across the street’, said some; ‘we heard about it from a friend’, said others; ‘I’m coming in again’, said even more, ‘to have a proper look’.
an atmosphere of calm and contemplation settled on them as they read the words and examined the stitching
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