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The annual meetings of Australia Yearly Meeting rotate among the seven Regional Meetings. The Australia Yearly Meeting office is based near the Australia Yearly Meeting Secretary, the only full-time employee, at any given time. Australia Yearly Meeting was established as an autonomous Yearly Meeting in 1964.
Friends Meeting House, adjacent to St Peter's Cathedral. The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia, literally in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral, on its west side.
George Washington Walker was an English-born Quaker. He traveled and made missionary efforts with James Blackhouse in Australia, Mauritius, and South Africa; James Backhouse, botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia. Daniel Wheeler was a British Quaker who made missionaries efforts in Russia, the South Pacific, and North America.
An annual meeting each January, is hosted by a different Regional Meeting over a seven-year cycle, with a Standing Committee each July or August. The Australia Yearly Meeting published This We Can Say: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought in 2003. Meetings for worship in New Zealand started in Nelson in 1842 and in Auckland in 1885.
Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area.The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings.
Celebration: A Missing Element in Quaker Worship 1981 Roger C. Wilson What Jesus Means To Me: Jesus the Liberator 1980 Hector Kinloch: Quakers and Sacramental History: Reflections on Quaker Saints by a Quaker Sinner 1979 J. Duncan Wood Quakers in the Modern World: The Relevance of Quaker Beliefs to the Problems of the Modern World 1978
Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican. [363] Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy, who retained ties to the Quakers but became a Unitarian [364] Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer [365]
Pages in category "Australian Quakers" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. James Backhouse;