Eight JYFs brought enthusiasm, insights and camaraderie to The Settlement for 6 days. Quaker Acres residents were privileged to be able to interact with these young people who very quickly became a “group” caring for and listening to each other. Activities included, holding a Meeting for Worship for Business, roller skating, insights...
Tour of Whanganui with Mandy Brooke and programme leader Jose Ignacio Pareja
As you can see from other posts, a lot of work is achieved at our traditional Queenʻs Birthday Work and Fun weekend. This year, for the first time, we decided to run a similar weekend in autumn to get some of the jobs done around harvest time. Plenty of work,...
Rose Tahupārae, kaumātua for Parliament, came to visit to collect a particular muka flax to make a kākahu for an international visitor. Here she is with Mandy Brooke and Merilyn Payne.
Our second Seminar of the year is a summer work weekend. Come spend a SummerWeekend@QuakerAcres March 8-10 2013 This is a summer edition of our traditional Queen’s birthday weekend.
Our first seminar for the year is Let the Living Waters Flow 22nd – 24th February 2013 From the brochure … “In April 2012 over 850 Quakers from 51 countries gathered at Kabarak University, Kenya for the 6th World Conference of Friends. This seminar is an opportunity to share the...
During January we have hosted the Earlham College students (click here), as well as a number of individual visitors. In February so far we have hosted a netball team for the NZ Masters Games which runs here in Whanganui every second year.
