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Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) is the national organisation for young Quakers (from 18 to 30-ish) in the United Kingdom. The name refers both to the organisation and to the General Meetings which are held in February, May and October each year, in various Quaker Meeting Houses in Britain. The organization also publishes a tri-annual magazine entitled The Young Quaker. ==History== The Young Friends Movement in the United Kingdom emerged in the first decade of the Twentieth Century, inspired by John Wilhelm Rowntree and led by Neave Brayshaw.〔Kennedy, Thomas Cummings ''British Quakerism 1860-1920: the transformation of a religious community'' Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-827035-6 pp.285ff.〕 The first National Conference of Young Friends was held in August 1911. Among the first generation were many conscientious objectors, who suffered badly during the Great War. The movement has influenced Britain Yearly Meeting strongly during the twentieth century, for instance on the issue of ethical investments.〔''Responsible investment : a challenge to Friends'' was published by Young Friends Central Committee in 1980. ''See'' (Ethical Investment and the Challenge of Corporate Reform- A critical assessment of the procedures and purposes of UK ethical unit trusts. Submitted by Craig Mackenzie for the degree of PhD of the University of Bath, 1997, Page 61. )〕 The name changed from Young Friends Central Committee to the present name in 1993.〔''Quaker Faith & Practice'' (1994) Paragraph 10.25〕 In 1998, YFGM gave the annual Swarthmore Lecture to Friends gathered at Yearly Meeting in London, with the title ''Who do we think we are? Young Friends' Commitment and Belonging''.〔''Who do we think we are? Young Friends' Commitment and Belonging: Swarthmore Lecture 1998'', Quaker Home Service, 1998. ISBN 0-85245-299-3.〕 Perhaps summing up its work is a statement from 1926: 'Our work is based on the thought that 'What you have inherited from your forefathers, you must acquire for yourselves to possess it'. That is to say that each generation of Young Friends by its experiments must discover for itself the truths on which the Society is built, if it is to use those truths, and to continue and enlarge the work of the Society. Hence the occasional separate meetings of younger Friends and our desire to have means of expressing corporately our own experience' (''Quaker Faith & Practice'', 21.04) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Young Friends General Meeting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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