4 – Sample Visiting Friend Presentation Outline
There is no specific FCNL prescription or one right way to lead a presentation, workshop, or other program as a Visiting Friend. We each steward different gifts and leadings and have had different experiences with witness, advocacy, and Spirit-led action with and beyond FCNL. The Visiting Friends Program seeks to recognize, nurture, and draw out that rich wisdom and perspective each of us brings into the lives of Friends. 
There are three essential components: 
1	Share your journey with Spirit-led action and FCNL
2	Listen and talk with Friends, answer questions, hear their conditions and leadings
3	Based on what you hear, recommend a few concrete ways Friends can draw on FCNL as a resource to accomplish their goals and live out their faith in new/deeper ways.
Beyond these three essential pieces, the presentation is yours to craft drawing on your own personal voice and creative vision, the array of FCNL resources and materials available to you through the Visiting Friends Toolkit and consultation with staff. What follows is a framework some Visiting Friends have found helpful in the past; take what is useful to you and leave the rest. 
Sample Visiting Friend Presentation Outline (60 minutes)
(5)	Worship
(5)	Introduction: Share about yourself, your context, how you’re connected to FCNL, and how you got involved in advocacy and why you’ve stayed involved. Before you get started, mention you’ll ask people to sign a Visiting Friends Guestbook form at the end of the presentation.
(10)	Share Stories of Faith in Action: Share your journey with Spirit-led action and FCNL. What was your personal spiritual path to pursuing social justice, and how has FCNL fit into this? You can read excerpts from past stories from Visiting Friends here. 
(10)	About FCNL: Prophetic, Persistent, Powerful 
(See resource: FCNL As a Quaker Organization and FCNL’s Impact page for full About FCNL talking points.) 
 
Invitations to Engage: Ways to Witness with FCNL
(See resource: Ways to Witness with FCNL for full talking points. Recommend highlighting 2-3 of these ways to engage based on what you believe will connect best with this audience.)
Conclusion 
Ask for questions/open it up for discussion!
(20)	Listen to Friends: Hear conditions and leadings, facilitate discussion, ask, and answer questions. (If you don’t know the answer to a question, write it down and get the person’s contact information so you can follow up with them when you find an answer; or communicate the relevant details to FCNL staff and request follow up support, either in your report or via direct contact with staff.)
	Resources:
•	Questions to Ask Quaker Communities 
•	Quakers’ FAQs About FCNL 
(5)	Invite Friends to Engage: Recommend a few specific ways the meeting and/or members can engage with FCNL based on what you heard in the listening section; this advising should be happening throughout the Q&A as well, but this is an opportunity to really drive home those 2 or 3 suggestions that you think fit best with the meeting community and individuals you’ve heard from. Note any outstanding questions to include in your report. 
	Attendance: Before closing worship, invite Friends to sign the Visiting Friends Guestbook by sharing https://fcnl.org/vfguestbook in the Zoom chat or passing around paper guestbook sheets you can download here. Explain that it is like an event registration so they can receive follow up information about this program and other updates and action opportunities with FCNL. 
(5)	Closing worship