Upcoming Events
Sunday January 23rdMilford Haven
Tuesday 7th December at 7.30pmZoom
Sundays at 7pmZoom
Sundays at 11.00Friends Meeting House
NEWS & VIEWS
Milford Haven Quakers - What's happening.
WELCOMING PENALLY'S ARTISTS TO THE MEETING HOUSE
October 20th
Along with Grwp Resilience we welcomed some of the artists from Penally camp to the Meeting House in advance of their reception at the Torch Theatre exhibition of their works.
COP26 DISPLAY
November 2021
A family of children have created this month's display which is about things we can all do to meet the climate challenge
ZEN MEDITATION
Autumn 2021
We are pleased to once more welcome a Zen Buddhist group to the Meeting House. They will be holding their meditation session on Wednesday evenings. All are welcome.
WE'VE BEEN YARN BOMBED
11th November 2021
Many thanks to whoever it was who has yarn bombed us. Spot on with our Peace Testimony.
ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
25th September 2021
We held a well attended "Being Quaker: Living Quaker" day across the whole of South Wales Area Meeting via Zoom. We have embraced our support for:
40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DECLARATION OF NUCLEAR FREE WALES
For June 2022
Pembrokeshire Peace are asking for help with the following:
Choose a week in the designated month to hold an exhibition - allowing sufficient time for transportation from and to other venues.
Book the venue in Haverfordwest
Collect info and present a display telling the local story.
Involve members, supporters and local key VIP’s -
Liaise with CND Cymru re arrangements and costs for transportation of material to and from their area – and any other practical issues which may arise.
Prepare Press Release and other local publicity
Record the event and send photos/videos for posting to the CND Cymru website/Fb
Lobby Councils to pass a resolution in support of the UN Treaty and sign up to the ICAN Cities Pledge
For more information contact Pembrokeshire Peace
SOUTH WALES AREA MEETING
November 2021
At Area Meeting, the following business was presented:
Children and Young People’s Work Advocate Report
Quakers in West Wales Asylum Concern report
Quaker Life Representative Council report
October's Meeting for Sufferings report
Report on the QPSW/QCEA Peace Education Conference
Report from the Co-assistant Clerks Membership: contact books and
tabular statementPattern of Meetings for 2022
Trustee's and Treasurer's business
Symud Ymlaen/Moving Forwards report
Meeting of Friends in Wales report
Environmental and Sustainability Cluster reprot
Quaker Chaplain Support Group report
SWAM Service: minutes from Swansea Meeting
Contact our Clerk to receive a copy of the minutes.
DECEMBER'S CHARITY
1st December 2021
We help thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency by offering free, confidential and independent advice. When necessary we constructively challenge on behalf of people to ensure they are properly assisted and to improve practice and learning.
We work with people who use our services as equals. We provide information, advice and support to help people identify the best options to prevent homelessness, to find and keep a home and to help them take control of their own lives.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home and fight the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and society.
We do this with campaigns, advice and support – and we never give up.
We believe that home is everything.
MEETINGS FOR BUSINESS
19th November 2021
OPEN DAY DISPLAY 2021
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BEING INVOLVED
Quakers do not stand apart from the world but have a history of being involved, joining with other to bring about change.
True godliness don’t turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavours to mend it: not hide their candle under a bushel, but set it upon a table in a candlestick.
William Penn, 1682
ADVICES & QUERIES
Each week an Advice & Query will be posted here
Since 1682 it has been our practice to ask "How the Truth has prospered amongst them (Quakers) since the last yearly meeting, and how Friends are in peace and unity?"
That question has evolved into our 42 Advices and Queries. Each month one is chosen to be read to the Meeting for those present to reflect on. Periodically they are revised in the light of contemporary experience. They are challenges to encourage examination of your spiritual life.
Each week one of the Advices and Queries will be posted here. Please take time to read and consider how it bears on your life.
Advices & Queries: No.3
Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit? All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our awareness of the divine and to find the inward source of our strength. Seek to know an inward stillness, even amid the activities of daily life. Do you encourage in yourself and in others a habit of dependence on God’s guidance for each day? Hold yourself and others in the Light, knowing that all are cherished by God.
A History of Quakers in Pembrokeshire
by Stephen Griffiths
£4.95 plus postage.
Stephen Griffiths was a member of our Meeting form 1949 until his death in 2010 at the age of 101. He taught for many years at Pembroke Grammar School. He was born and raised in Blaenau Ffestiniog and wrote several books and articles in his native Welsh.
FILES
Available for Download from our Google Drive
HOPE
Our Winter Party 2021
Because we could not meet in person we created a scrapbook to share
A QUAKER ODYSSEY
Maida Barton Follini
The migration of Quaker Whalers from Nantucket, Massachusetts to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Milford Haven. Canadian Quaker History Journal 71 (2006)
ABIAL FOLGER'S DIARY
The Dairy of Abail Coleman Folger 1806 – 1811
1806 - 1811
CLEMENCY & STEPHEN GRIFFITHS
Clemency and Stephen were members of Milford Haven Local Meeting from 1949 until their deaths in 2010 and 2015
Their lives
QUAKERISM IN HAVERFORDWEST
A history
This is a report from Pembrokeshire Life about the history of Quakers in the Haverfordwest. It was the Meeting which the Milford Haven Quakers attended until their own Meeting House was opened in 1811.
STARBUCKS OF MILFORD HAVEN
An article from Pembrokeshire Life about one of the founding Quaker families of Milford Haven
Family history
MAES Y MYNYDD
or Pennsylvania?
A report from the Western Telegraph about a place where many Quakers gathered before leaving Wales for Pennsylvania in the late 1680s. Photos from the visit made by Milford Haven Quakers.
MARGARET LEWIS
Testimonial
A piece written by Margaret Lewis about her life and the part played in it by Quakerism.