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Before the Resurrection: Transitions and Endings in Quaker Meetings and Churches - by Provance, Emily. 



Before the Resurrection: Transitions and Endings in Quaker Meetings and Churches
by Emily Provance (Author) Format: Kindle Edition


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How do Friends’ meetings and churches adapt to changing or shrinking communities? A smaller or older meeting is no less valuable to God than a larger one, but the “more is better” messaging of modern culture tells us otherwise. This book weaves together logistical suggestions with eternal spiritual principles to help meetings right-size their institutions. Whether a group is altering its committee structures, restructuring entirely, selling a building, or laying itself down, the steps are essentially the same: recognizing the need for change, discerning the will of God at this time, caring for one another, and stepping forward into a new thing.


Friends are a resurrection people. We know there will always be a renewal of life. But resurrection is not the same as resuscitation. How do we best make space for what God may do next?

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Review

"Thank you, Emily! This book is 'a faithful recognition [of] a pre-existing truth.' The concise and clear presentation will be helpful to Friends in local, quarterly, and yearly meetings, across all the branches of Friends, and around the English-speaking world. Highly recommended for folks with gifts in pastoral care or a concern for property and finance, and an interest in the future of the Quaker movement."

--Robin Mohr, Former Executive Secretary, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas

"Before the Resurrection grows out of Emily's deep observations from her extensive travel among Friends. To our benefit, Emily offers us her gift of sensing and naming what is--opening us to what might be made new within our Quaker communities. She says Quakers are a resurrection people, and she takes us though practical and meaningful ways a meeting can recognize and move through its life stages. Inspiring, challenging, and practical, I recommend this to anyone who is part of a beloved spiritual community."

--Gretchen Castle, Dean, Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana

About the Author

Emily Provance is a Quaker traveling minister from 15th Street Meeting in New York City. She is an associate of Good News Associates.

Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2025

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Emily Provance 『A Testimony of Community』

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A Testimony of Community - Kindle edition by Provance, Emily ...

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에밀리 프로방스(Emily Provance)가 쓴 『A Testimony of Community』

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저자: 에밀리 프로방스 (Emily Provance)

출간일: 2026년 9월 15일

내용: 퀘이커(Quaker) 목사인 저자가 7년 반 동안 전 세계를 여행하며 공동체 생활, 이웃 사랑, 신의 부르심에 관해 사람들의 이야기를 경청하고 그 속에서 얻은 집단적 지혜를 담은 책입니다.

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How does God call humanity to live in community? A person starts to see things differently after seven and a half years of living on the road, building personal relationships in all kinds of places, learning to love across barriers of difference, distrust, and fear.

Quaker theology says that a group of people listening together can understand God’s call better than any individual can. So—how are believers meant to love their neighbor? What is the right way to care for each other? Does the Holy Spirit offer guidance on war, governance, education, or friendship in a way that’s relevant for ordinary people? To find these answers, people need to hear from one another.

From North America to Africa, from Europe to the West Pacific, Emily Provance—a Quaker traveling minister—searched for communities’ answers to these questions. She discovered a surprising number of points of agreement among thousands of people all over the world. This book starts with the story of that listening journey, then offers the collective wisdom uncovered, supplemented with stories and reflections and practical ways to apply the ideas in ordinary life.

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