We Friends Can Call Home by May Mansoor Munn Out of the silence, a voice speaks.
Silence resumes as men and women and children center down in silent worship.
In the mid- 50s, our Quaker group was a handful of seekers who met for evening worship at a private home. During the early 60s, Friends met in what once was the Presbyterian manse, known to us as the Houston Council of Churches building on oak-lined Chelsea Place. At that time, some of our members became active volunteers at Jeff Davis, then Houston s charity hospital. Red Cross-trained Friends worked as nurses aides and orderlies in an attempt to offer relief to the overworked staff and much needed care to the patients. As a result of this experience, writer Jan de Hartog, a member of our meeting, wrote his book, The Hospital .