The Public Friends Recording Process
The Purpose of The Public Friends Recording Process
The purpose of The Public Friends Recording Process is to provide a free template for monthly meetings and yearly meetings to use to help members discern and record a call to ministry.
This process is designed for meeting to use with members who are in good standing and have been worshiping with the community for at least two years. The process may be used for those who have theological education and those who have not.
Meetings may modify this process to serve their particular context.
The Mission of Public Friends
The mission of Public Friends is ensuring the future of Friends in North America by supporting and developing Quaker ministers to a professional standard. We believe that ministers in the Religious Society of Friends need support and accountability, and that a formal process of recording is one of the ways to provide this support and accountability.
We hope that meetings and yearly meetings that find themselves without a recording process due to splits or political isolation will find this process useful, especially in recording marginalized people.
This project is funded by a grant from the Louisville Institute.