College Park Quarterly Meeting (CPQM) is a quarterly gathering of unprogrammed Monthly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Northern California and Northern Nevada region (list).

News

The Quarter meets on a regular schedule.   Please click on the Link at the bottom of this page to view the current Schedule of Events.

Other useful forms

• CPQM Teen Program Handbook
• Teen Program Packing List
• Medical Information Form
• Parental Consent Form

We encourage all Friends to join us for the business of the quarterly meeting.

About Friends, Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Meetings

Wikipedia has information about Quakerism. The following brief introduction is intended to simply explain College Park Quarterly Meeting's context in the Society of Friends.

There are unprogrammed and programmed Friend (Quaker) meetings for worship. Unprogrammed Friends meetings gather in silence for worship, and programmed meetings usually have a pastor and have worship similiar to Protestant services. Local meetings, which have weekly Meetings for Worship, are called Monthly Meetings because they hold a Meeting for the purpose of business once a month. They are organized by geographic region into larger Quarterly Meetings, which are organized into yet-larger Yearly Meetings. CPQM is a gathering of unprogrammed monthly meetings in Northern California and Northern Nevada (list of meetings). It is a part of Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM). Another quarterly meeting in PYM is the Southern California Quarterly Meeting, which includes Monthly Meetings in Southern California, Southern Nevada, Mexico and Central America. The Yearly Meeting for programmed meetings in this area is Evangelical Friends Church Southwest.

List of CPQM Meetings

(Addresses and other relevant information can be found here) -->Apple Seed
Berkeley
Carson City Worship Group
Central Coast
Chico
Davis
Delta
Friends House Worship Group
Fresno
Grass Valley
Humboldt
Lake County Worship Group
Live Oak
Mendocino
Monterey Peninsula
Napa-Sonoma
Oakland Worship Group
Palo Alto
Redding
Redwood Forest
Reno
Sacramento
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Cruz
Soledad Worship Group
Southern Humboldt Worship Group
Strawberry Creek
Ukiah Worship Group
Visalia
Western Shore Worship Group

Google Map of CPQM Meetings

Institutions

Quarterly Meetings also create institutions to serve the wider world of Friends and their communities. College Park Quarterly Meeting was involved in establishing:

• Sierra Friends Center, Nevada City, CA.
• Ben Lomond Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
• Friends House, Santa Rosa, CA.

Other Friends Centers include:

• Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA.
• William Penn House, Washington, DC.

Friends Publications

• EarthLight Library: A seedbed and greenhouse of eco-spiritual writing, artwork and video
• Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns (Newsletter)
• Friends Journal: Quaker thought and life
• Pendle Hill Pamphlets
• Quaker Books, a program of Friends General Conference
• Quaker Life
• QuakerPress of Friends General Conference
• Western Friend: the official publication of Independent Western Quakers. 

Links

• Pacific Yearly Meeting
• Quaker.org gives a comprehensive listing of Quaker web sites
• PYM Unity with Nature Committee
• Southern California Quarterly Meeting
• Guatemala Friends Scholarship Program (Progresa), which is under the care of GFMM and Redwood Forest Friends Meeting in Santa Rosa. Includes information on the Scholarship Loan Program and Guatemala Study Tours.
• Palo Alto Friends Meeting El Salvador Projects