6. Yearly Meeting

Purposes and functions

6.06

The agenda may comprise:

a. minutes from area or general meetings and minutes or memoranda from standing committees of Meeting for Sufferings sharing with the yearly meeting as a whole some concern which has their united support;

b. proposals for amendments to our book of discipline forwarded by Meeting for Sufferings or Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee in accordance with the process currently approved; details of this process may be obtained on application to the Recording Clerk;

c. a summary of the proceedings of Meeting for Sufferings during the year, together with such reports as it may forward from committees on their work, together comprising the annual report (6.25);

d. the financial report and audited accounts of the Yearly Meeting Funds for the preceding year (6.25);

e. the tabular statement (6.07);

f. the report of the Agenda Committee (6.18);

g. testimonies to the grace of God in the lives of deceased Friends, forwarded by area and general meetings;

h. epistles received from other yearly meetings and other Friends' bodies, reminding us of our membership in a world family of Friends;

i. subjects initiated by the Agenda Committee (6.18);

j. the report of the Quaker Stewardship Committee, certifying that every part of Britain Yearly Meeting is producing proper financial accounts and property records (14.28).

Items b, c, d, e & j are presented for consideration and acceptance, the Trustees' annual report & accounts having been approved by Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees (8.03) and forwarded by Meeting for Sufferings.


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