On Living With A Concern For Gospel Ministry Brian Drayton 2005 Paper $19.95 Quaker Press of FGC

The tradition of Friends ministering to each other is as old as Quakerism. Brian Drayton has examined and tudied this tradition deeply and poarticipated in the recent renewal of ministry among Friends. Hi accumulated wisdom, thoughtful analysis, and personal experience of giving and receiving ministry make him and ideal person to shar information and encouragement with contemporary Friends, most especially those with a call to vocal ministry and to those supporting them.

"Brian Drayton has studied A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas, and many Friends journals, internalizing their teaching and applying it to his own life and ministry. He is called to minister to ministers, to encourage, help, and yes, even admonish Friends who feel a gift for ministry arising within. Here is a book full of wisdom and advice on how to cherish, live with, and grow into the gift of ministry. It is well aimed at the specific temptations and opportunities of our own day, while incorporating those timeless truths with which a minister of any era must grapple."
     -- Marty Grundy

This book is a love letter to the Religious Society of Friends from one of our most seasoned and faithful ministers. May we receive its call to holiness as a message for our time. The freshness of this book rises from the deep springs of the Spirit, and I expect to read it again and again as a source of spiritual renewal in the years ahead.
    -- Cathy Whitmire, Author of Plain Living, A Quaker Path to Simplicity

Brian Drayton of Weare (NH) Monthly Meeting is a plant ecologist working in science education research. He has traveled extensively in the ministry carrying a concern to encourage those who contribute to their meeting's ministry. He has given workshops, retreats, and addresses on a range of topics in Quaker history and belief for monthly quarterly and yearly meetings and Pendle Hill In 1994 he published Selections from the Writings of James Nailer. In 2003 he was one of the originators of the Quaker Peacebuilder Camp. a program for teaching nonviolent action based in Quaker spirituality.