The easy answer to this is that some do and some do not. Meetings can recognise the power of healing and host events on the National Day of Healing. Other Meetings are less sympathetic. Within Meetings there can be a range of attitudes to the power of healing.
George Fox had a healing ministry and for those Christo centred, Jesus sent his disciples out to heal the sick (Matthew 10; Luke 10).
There is a group of Quaker Healers, the Friends Fellowship of Healing, which publishes a journal called Towards Wholeness. There is a web site: www.quaker-healing.org.uk and an e-mail address for enquiries: david.mason1948@gmail.com
For a variety of reasons some Quaker healers are unable to join in a group in a Meeting House and there is a Postal and Distant Healers Prayer Group, co-ordinator Maureen Anderson at maureen.e.anderson38@gmail.com
Robin Goodman, Inverness Local Meeting, March 2020
Addendum:
The phone call came on a Saturday morning. Come now. My brother was dying. We live on an island and I just had time to go to the airport and catch the plane. Before leaving I hastily sent an e-mail to three Friends who are healers and friends. They upheld me and my brother. I sat at my brother’s side during the last hours of his life and felt the complete peace of being upheld. This feeling that the Light was there never left. I thought it unfair, my brother so much younger than me was dying and then clearly into my head came the thought that this was in right ordering that he was being spared something worse. My brother died very peacefully while I held him. My daughter afterwards said that there was something utterly calm about me that was helping other family to keep calm too, she said that she almost thought she could see a light around me that I was giving to others. It was not me; it was being prayed for and being upheld by my healing friends. Their prayers helped my brother to die peacefully. Their prayers helped his wife, daughter and grandchildren to be calm.
Healing is different from curing, although a cure can happen. Healing is supporting the spirit so that mind, body and spirit can work together with the medical team. Sometimes this coming together can enable a cure. Sometimes it enables acceptance and a peace and calm to face whatever is there.
There are many people who have experience the feeling of being upheld. It is like no other and defies description.
Robin Goodman, Inverness Local Meeting