Mehefin /June

the 3rd Wednesday in the month is this coming Wednesday 17th June - so this means there is a Quaker Meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest at 7pm at Albany Church Vestry [opposite the leisure centre]!

THIS POST will show you a map

There was a South Wales Area meeting in Milford Haven last Saturday. Children and young people led a workshop and feedback from Yearly Meeting in London session; the theme was equality and injustice...fairness. A lego tower building with instructions and interventions gave many a chance to experience the feeling of "but that's not fair!

February and March

I have finally made it over the mountain to the monthly evening Meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest in the oldest non conformist chapel/church in Pembrokeshire.
A dozen people. Many people walking past, talking, laughing - a football being kicked around for a bit and a deep silence inside.

Faith & Practice 2.1 was read:
Worship is the response of the human spirit to the presence of the divine and eternal, to the God who first seeks us. The sense of wonder and awe of the finite before the infinite leads naturally to thanksgiving and adoration.
Silent worship and the spoken word are both parts of Quaker ministry. The ministry of silence demands the faithful activity of every member in the meeting. As, together, we enter the depths of a living silence, the stillness of God, we find one another in ‘the things that are eternal’, upholding and strengthening one another.

The next meeting will be on 18th March at 7pm. See previous post for where [link]




I include this photo as I had a vision of a magnolia flower - held in my hand, then in me, then holding us all - these things don't normally happen. Diolch Hwlffordd | Thank you Haverfordwest - I am grateful that we held the Quaker Quest events and that this once a month meeting came into being.

January's Meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest

The January Meeting for Worship is on Wednesday 21st at 7pm at Albany Church Vestry.
This is accessed from St Thomas's Green car park. It is on Albany Terrace, and the Vestry is the door to the right of the main building.
Croeso i bawb - all are welcome


A link to Introducing Quakers from Quakers in Britain website

A regular Meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest

Press release:

From December 17^th of December there will be a regular once monthly Quaker Meetings in Haverfordwest after a gap of almost 200 years. This has eveolved from the Quaker Quest series of evenings in Haveerfordwest: local Quakers from Milford Haven, St. David’s, Narberth and Cardigan talked on different aspects of being a Quaker.

Quakerism first emerged in Pembrokeshire after George Fox visited in 1656 in the company of John ap John who ended up in prison for refusing to doff his hat when going into “the steeple house” [a Quaker nickname for churches]. Soon there were meetings in Haverfordwest, Jameston, redstone, St Dvid,s Newport and Puncheston. Non conformist were not allowed to worship freely for many decades; Records show that after Cromwell’s death in 1658 there wasn’t a day when there was not a Quaker in prison in Haverfordwest for 30 years!

Fortunately if you had been found at the first Quaker meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest on October 31^st there would have been no issues of legality. The Meeting House in Haverfordwest was closed in 1824, the Shire hall was built on the site. There is still evidence of Quakers through to the 1800s at the Quaker Burial ground  at Sutton to the west of Haverfordwest.

Contemporary Quakers share a way of life, not a set of beliefs. We seek to experience the divine directly, within ourselves, and through our relationships with others and the world around us. We are welcoming and inclusive, and value our commitments to equality, peace, integrity and simplicity.

The first Meeting for Worship will be held on Wednesday 17^th December at 7pm at Albany Church Hall, Hill Street, Haverfordwest SA61 1QE All are welcome. Then on the third Wednesday of the month at Albany Church Vestry

the fifth friday evening...

On Friday 31st October there will be a full Meeting for Worship in Haverfordwest
Open from 18.30 for a 19.00 start to a hour of Meeting for Worship.
Afterwards there will be a chance to talk with local Quakers over a cup of tea with light refreshments.


croeso i bawb | welcome to all - even if you were unable to make any of the previous Quaker Quest evenings.


Picton Community Centre, Freeman's Way, Haverfordwest SA61 1UG
Canolfan Cymuned Picton, Freeman's Way, Hwlffordd SA61 1UG

Y Ffordd Dawel? The Quiet Way?

What being a Quaker means to people in Wales today.
Beth mae bod yn Grynwr yn ei olygu i bobl yng Nghymru heddiw.


Here is a series of conversations by people living in Wales exploring their own experience of Quakerism and what it means to them.
Dyma gyfres o sgyrsiau gan bobl sy'n byw yng Nghymru, ac yn ymchwilio i'w profiad unigol o Grynwriaeth â'r hyn y mae'n ei olygu iddynt.

Croeso // Welcome

Cwrdd â’r Crynwyr Hwlffordd // Quaker Quest Haverfordwest

Here in west Wales 4 Quaker groups are getting together to present a series of four Quaker Quest evenings in October:




These words are from the main Quaker Quest site:

"We have found that people enquiring about us want to experience Quaker worship, hear why being a quaker matters to us, talk to each other and us about it and get an idea what sort of people we are.

So at various places across the country we offer this in an informal and relaxed way. Quaker Quest evenings are open to anyone. You won't be asked to pay. And we never require ourselves or anyone else to 'sign up' to a set of beliefs.

The stillness that is at the core of Quaker worship is as needed today as ever, along with the spiritual and social values we have derived from it. We will be as interested in how you feel about them as we will be in meeting you."