Week by week my Quaker community has granted me a broad and intimate space to be silent and still in worship. A moment to breathe easy. A sense that I am held by something greater than the sum of all of us. That things lost are only out of sight; that life is for and means something.
Alistair Fuller
In-house Meetings for Worship resumed on 14th March in conjunction with the ongoing Meetings on Zoom. Limited meetings for other groups resumed on 12th April. For further information, and for guidance on visiting us, please see Keeping You Safe at the Meeting House and No. 43.
Online Meetings for Worship
Meetings for Worship continue to be held at the usual times. Friends are able to worship in the following ways:
- Online or via your telephone, using Zoom
- In the quiet of your own home at the normal meeting times, but without connecting to Zoom
- Online meetings for worship organised by Woodbrooke
If you are new both to Oxford Quakers and to Zoom, you may find the page First Time at Oxford Meeting? helpful.
The Zoom codes and telephone numbers are:
- Web: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87383304611?pwd=Vkkya2ZweVVRZjRmOE1JVDBFdTdwUT09
- Zoom ‘client’ (downloaded app): meeting ID = 873 8330 4611; passcode = oxford (all in lower case)
- Telephone: 0203 901 7895 or 0131 460 1196; passcode = 525212 (If dialling from outside the UK remember to use the country code 44)
Note that the codes for ‘Afterword’ gatherings on Sunday mornings are different: see ‘Afterword’ and other meetings below.
The Zoom room is open during the following periods:
| Sunday: both Meetings (also business meetings on 1st Sunday) | 9:00am onwards |
| Monday: Young Adult Friends | 7:45-9:00pm |
| Tuesday and Thursday: early Meetings | 7:00-9:00am |
| Wednesday: lunchtime Meeting | 11:45am onwards* * Temporarily from 11:15am onwards |
‘Afterword’ and other meetings
A separate set of Zoom codes is used for the ‘Afterword’ gathering from 10.15–12.45 on Sundays and for all other meetings, e.g. Poems in the Library and Open Office. These codes are:
- Web: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89355942467?pwd=MHZEZmF3UWVwVGtqRnFuMDlqdmwrdz09
- Zoom ‘client’ (downloaded app): meeting ID = 893 5594 2467; passcode = oxford (all in lower case)
- Telephone: 0203 481 5240 or 0203 901 7895; passcode = 476863 (If dialling from outside the UK remember to use the country code 44)
The quotation by Alistair Fuller is taken from his blog post ‘Connection, belonging and meaning in lockdown‘ on the Quakers in Britain website.
