This is an offering for attenders of Friends General Conference Gathering, a week of worship, workshops, and community for Quakers from across the US, Canada, and beyond.

Meeting for Worship for Lament

With our feet on the earth and circled by trees, we will use the music ministry of Friend Anna Fritz and the container of Meeting for Worship to make space for embodied grieving. Friends have the need to actively mourn the legacies of patriarchy, colonization, and racism being enacted on all of our bodies and the body of the world. Anna will offer her Spirit-gifted songs to help us touch and lift up the pain we are carrying. There will be music (cello and voice), singing together, and a time for wailing and keening, followed by a return to waiting worship to hold our personal and collective grief in the Light.