This may involve collecting money and holding it for the expenses of the work, providing domestic help, educational experiences, practical assistance, hospitality or travel aid. Assistance may be needed to relieve sufferings arising from the witness. Friends at home thus experience being one in the Spirit with those who go out. In a recent seminar on how to prepare Friends for work with Peace Teams, John Lampen reminded us that John Woolman, in his Essay on Ministry, speaks of his progress as like walking though a muddy place stepping on stepping stones and that he had to get on to each stone before he could see where the next stone lay. When we proceed as way opens we also learn that God can guide us through way closing.
Friends discern our next step together in waiting worship.
The meeting for worship and the meeting for business, exemplify pacifist technique applied to the relations among individuals in a small group. Such meetings are training grounds in pacific methods. They are to the Society of Friends what the drill ground is to an army, though nothing could be further removed from a military procedure. The meeting for worship requires a large measure of love, toleration, mutul understanding and high expectation.