Mid-India Yearly Meeting is a yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Madhya Pradesh state in mid- India . Quakerism came to mid-India as a result of missionaries from London Yearly Meeting who were members of the Friends Foreign Mission Association . Missions were established in Mid-India in 1866 by the Friends Foreign Mission Association . Mid-India Yearly Meeting was founded as an independent yearly meeting in 1907 in Hoshangabad .
5-765: There are six monthly meetings in Mid-India Yearly Meeting: Hoshangabad Friends Meeting, Itarsi Friends Meeting, Kheda Friends Meeting (also in Itarsi), Sohagpur Friends Meeting, Seoni Malwa Friends Meeting and Makoriya Friends Meeting. There are three schools in Itarsi which were founded and still run by Friends, but which now belong to the Indian government. There is also the Sohugpur Friends' Girls' School which
10-452: A subject. At these meetings, Quakers attempt to reach unity on a subject, in a form of religious consensus decision-making , to find "the sense of the meeting". A monthly meeting is so called because it traditionally holds these meetings once a month, separate from the normal weekly meeting for worship. Each meeting usually nominates members to serve in certain volunteer positions to facilitate administration, including: A monthly meeting
15-478: Is a single institution. In most countries, multiple monthly meetings form a quarterly meeting , which in turn form yearly meetings . Programmed Quakers may refer to their congregation as a church . Among Quakers, affairs are managed at a particular kind of meeting for worship , called a meeting for business, where all members are invited to attend. Decisions are made as a form of worship, where each individual sits in contemplative silence until moved to speak on
20-586: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a monthly meeting or area meeting is the basic governing body, a congregation which holds regular meetings for business for Quakers in a given area. The monthly meeting is responsible for the administration of its congregants, including membership and marriages , and for the meeting's property. A monthly meeting can be a grouping of multiple smaller meetings, usually called preparative meetings , coming together for administrative purposes, while for others it
25-510: Was founded by Friends and continues to be run by Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends. In 2002, Mid-India Yearly Meeting published a Hindi language version of Britain Yearly Meeting 's Advices and Queries, the part of British Quaker Faith and Practice . It is affiliated to Friends World Committee for Consultation . This Quaker-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Monthly meeting In
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