https://www.quakerranter.org/where-are-all-the-children-now-2/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 06 May 2025 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/where-are-all-the-children-now-2/#comment-950508 Tue, 06 May 2025 16:32:00 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=233406#comment-950508 Thank you for this. I’m a longtime member of Redwood Forest Friends Meeting in Santa Rosa, CA, and the clerk of the Children’s Program Committee of Pacific Yearly Meeting. We, unfortunately, are experiencing the same thing, and I’ve got some ideas about it that won’t fit here. What do we do? One thing is realize that we need to commit to our social, not just political, lives. But it was also interesting to hear about your involvement with the Moravians. My grandparents were Moravian missionaries to Nicaragua from the 20’s to the 40’s. Since my father was raised by his maiden aunts in Bethlehem, PA, and basically abandoned by his parents, he had a lot of anger toward the Moravian church (although he sure did learn how to play piano!), and he became a lefty atheist. Figuring out how to present our lives in faith to young people is an ongoing concern of mine. And being a teacher of young people in a group that has such a wide basis of belief, is a challenge that I don’t always know how to navigate. I do know some adults who are now having children, and they always give me a hug and tell me that our Meeting was important to them as they were growing, so I must have been doing something right.

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