Yorkshire Link group goes to Scarborough!
The reinvigorated Yorkshire Link Group have run three events in the last year with the support of their Youth Development worker. In June young people met for a weekend in Scarborough.
Link Group persist in innovating to find a format and programme that fits our young people and enables them to explore different facets of Yorkshire Quakerism.
At Keighley, last December, we experienced a profound and worshipful welcome in the snow and ice. On that chilly Sunday morning, there was a true Gathering in the Light, a sharing of Truth, Love and experience in both the quiet and the ministry. That Meeting for Worship will stay with me for a long time.
Doncaster Link Group in spring coincided with nearly a foot of snow. Mercifully most of this had gone by the time I and the volunteers got there! Here we felt how Doncaster meeting is in the heart of the city, surrounded by life and reaching out into the community. We enjoyed chatting with some refugees who wondered if our unusual presence meant new opening times for the Quaker meeting and we gladly shared our surplus food.
In Scarborough this summer, young people gathered a little travel and exam weary for a wonderful welcome at the sea-side Scarborough meeting house. We felt the holy care and welcome flow from every corner of that place – from its cleanliness, to its wonderfully organised kitchen, to it library and wonderful plants. The constant dedication of welcome and facilitation in Scarborough, made for a wonderfully open, special time, for the young people who gathered there for games on the beach, a swim in the sea, eating good food together and sharing worshipful time.
We are looking forward to our autumn Link Group very much - each one is different and each one is an adventure.