January 2012 Query

• Are meetings for business held in a spirit of worship and prayerful search for the way of Truth?
• Are all members encouraged to use their talents in the service of the meeting?
• Do you undertake your proper share of the work and financial support of the meeting?

Queries from NEYM's Faith and Practice and concern the Meeting for Business

November 2011 Query

• Do I recognize when I have enough?
• Do I want all the toys I see on TV, even though my room is full?

Queries on Simplicity come to us from the children's queries of Pacific Yearly Meeting

May 2011 Query

• Is your life marked by simplicity?
• Are you free from the burden of unnecessary possessions
• Do you avoid waste?
• Do you refuse to let the prevailing culture and media dictate your needs and values?

2003 Faith and Practice of Northwest Yearly Meeting (EFI)

April 2011 Query

• How does our Meeting work to overcome social, legal, economic, and political injustices, locally and in the wider world?
• Does our Meeting serve the community through action on concerns for civic improvement?
• What actions are we taking to assure everyone equal access to education, health care, legal services, housing, and employment as well as equal opportunities in business and in the professions?

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's 2002 Faith and Practice:

February 2011 Query & Advice

• Bring into God's light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for forgiveness and grace.
• In what ways are you involved in the work of reconciliation between individuals, groups and nations?

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January 2011 Query

• Do we trust sufficiently the goodwill of our meeting members and attenders to make our needs and concerns known?
• Do we love one another as becomes the followers of the Light, even to the point of sharing one another’s burdens?
• Do we care for one another so deeply that each other’s needs are recognized and
  addressed?
• As members of a spiritual community, do we actively work to maintain love and unity?

2006 Faith and Practice of Intermountain Yearly Meeting

January 2011 Query

• Do children receive the loving care of your meeting? Does the meeting nurture their religious life and give them an understanding of the principles and practices of Friends? Do you listen to children, recognizing that the Spirit may lead them along paths you have not foreseen? Do you assist them to assume their rightful responsibilities in the home, the meeting, and the community?

New England Yearly Meeting's 1986 Faith and Practice

December 2010 Query

• Do we keep to moderation and simplicity in our daily lives? Have we allowed the acquisition of possessions to interfere with God's purpose for us? Are our homes places where the presence of God is felt by those who live there and those who visit there?

New York Yearly Meeting's 2001 Faith and Practice

November 2010 Query

• Meetings can consciously cultivate fellowship and community. The Meeting is enriched when all members and attenders participate actively. The working of the Spirit in our lives is expressed through ministry, pastoral caring for each other, and the example provided by lives lived in the Light. As we worship, work, and laugh together, we forge bonds of trust, understanding, and communication.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting

October 2010 Query

• Outreach ...includes being open to others who may be tentatively 'reaching in' to explore the Quaker faith. The sense of welcome is expressed in countless small details: the coffee is warm, the biscuits are good, the potluck is plentiful, and people say 'hi.' Most importantly, when someone walks in and asks, 'What do Quakers believe?' it is the meeting’s task to be sure that they are likely to get a well-informed answer from anyone they might approach.

from Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Proposed Advices and Queries from 2009

Queries for May 2010 Extended Worship

• What stands in our way of giving ourselves over fully to the will of God and the work of the Spirit, as individuals, and as a Religious Society?

received from NEYM

Queries for April 2010 Friendly 8's Discussions

• Do you seek to understand where a person¹s words come from when those words are strange or disturbing to you?
• Do you listen patiently and seek the truth that other people's thoughts may contain for you?
• As you learn from others, are you willing to share with them what you in turn have learned?

March 2010 Queries

• Does each of us take our right share of responsibility in work and service for the Meeting?
• What gifts do we offer?
• What do we hold back from Offering?
• What do we have tied up that God has need of?

Intermountain Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice 2008

Queries for Threshing Sessions concerning Saylesville

• Given that we all view our obligations to Meeting through the prism of the worship space we each prefer to attend, how can we a develop a perspective that considers the needs of all Meeting members across the three sites?
• What does Saylesville Meetinghouse mean to our Monthly Meeting? What does it mean to you?
• What are our obligations to our Meeting's past? What are our obligations to our Meeting's future?
• What financial priority do our worship spaces take in our budget? Are we prepared to make the commitments to maintain them?
• How do we each make an effort to remain a Society of Friends among differences within our community? Are we willing to risk the plain speaking and careful listening that might bring us to a more covered community?
  
  

March 2010 Queries

Do you participate in the larger meeting?
Do you try to understand what others around you are feeling?
Do you try to gather and understand the facts before you make a decision?
Do you envy people who have something you don't?

This month's queries come from our own First Day School, from 2006.

December 2009 Query

Are you teachable?

New England Yearly Meeting Queries in Preparation for Sessions 2009

September 2009 Query

Which parts of your life is God’s Truth seeking to illuminate?

New England Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice:

June 2009 Queries:

What is God asking us to let go of in order to make more room for the spirit in our life together?
How can we make time to ask for support to make time and space available to listen for answer s and be faithful in following the directions that might arrive?
How can we create ways to be accountable to making this question the central motivation for the decisions we make each moment?

May 2009 Queries:

Do you welcome inquirers and visitors to your meetings?
Do you encourage their continued attendance and participation?
Do you seek to share and to interpret the faith of Friends and cooperate with others in speaking the Christian message?
Are you patterns, examples; do your lives preach among all sorts of
people, and to them?
Do you walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one?

New England Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice of 1985

April 2009: Queries On Equality

How does our Meeting help to create and maintain a society whose institutions recognize and do away with the inequities rooted in patterns of prejudice and economic convenience?
Is our Meeting open to all regardless of race, ability, sexual orientation, or class?
What steps are we taking as a Meeting to assure that our Meeting and the committees and institutions under our care reflect our respect for all and are free from practices rooted in prejudice?

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice 2006

December 2008 Queries:

Are we doing everything we can to nurture each member and attender?

from the Clerk of the Meeting

November 2008 Queries:

Are we sensitive to the needs of those around us who may be in less fortunate circumstances? Do we prayerfully consider how we can share one another's burdens when the need arises? Do we counsel lovingly and prayerfully with those members whose actions in any phase of life give us grounds for concern?

Ohio Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice 2001