The pressure of forming a Local Meeting
Loraine Brown suggests that doing away with ‘Notified’ and ‘Recognised’ Meeting status has had unintended consequences
At Yearly Meeting 2007 it was agreed to replace the three categories of Local Meetings by a single category. In other words, ‘Notified’ or ‘Recognised’ Meetings would be phased out and all would be called Local Meetings.This simplification seemed sensible, but it would be interesting to discover whether the Meeting that I attend is the only one finding the implementation of this decision difficult.
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