Tall Poppies, Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting

by Martha Paxson Grundy

Overview

Ironically, many Friends today are crying out for spiritual mentors, for ministers and elders who are lovingly steeped in our tradition. Some Friends hunger for a deeper relation with God, for a connection with divine power that heals and empowers. We long for wise and loving role models and examples. But in the current sometimes ignorant and poverty-stricken state of our Religious Society, those whom God is raising up too rarely have the informed, prayerful support they need to function as fully as God would have them.

This pamphlet began as a Monday Night lecture in the fall 1998 Pendle Hill series on "Challenging some Quaker Assumptions." It draws together ideas from several yearly meetings and individuals. The hope is that a local meeting, facing an emerging gift of ministry in its midst, might have some tools for nurturing, supporting, and overseeing the ministry and the minister.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156998739
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	07/16/2016
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #347
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	214 KB

About the Author

Marty Grundy was raised in a Friends family in eastern Pennsylvania. Her interest in Quaker history, sharpened by her 1990 dissertation in American history, continues to inform her vision of who we have been as a Religious Society, and what we might become. She has served as clerk of Cleveland Meeting and of the Oversight Committee of the Traveling Ministries Program of Friends General Conference.

This pamphlet began as a Monday Night lecture in the fall 1998 Pendle Hill series on “Challenging some Quaker Assumptions.” It draws together ideas from several yearly meetings and individuals. The hope is that a local meeting, facing an emerging gift of ministry in its midst, might have some tools for nurturing, supporting, and overseeing the ministry and the minister.