Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)
The best way to find out if silent, or unprogrammed, worship speaks to your condition is to experience it. Everyone is welcome! It is our intent to affirm and acknowledge the wholeness of all people, including their gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
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Unprogrammed worship is silent worship. We enter the meeting room silently. Our first task when worship begins is to center down, to still the clamor of the world, to turn our attention to the inner voice.
On March 15, 2020, Memphis Friends Meeting began implementing the CDC's recommendation to practice social distancing.
At the November business meeting, Khyber was approved as the new clerk for 2021 and 2022. We look forward to experiencing the clerking of a certified laughing coach! For the full slate of approvals, see the November business meeting minutes (log-in required, filed under Resources/Minutes).
Here is a description of the clerk role, written by a former clerk, Carol, for future clerks:
Memphis Friends, are you logging in to the web site to see all information? If not, you are missing out on resources like:
The Communications Committee is in the process of building an online version of the card catalog.
We're building a video "newsletter" of our First Day School. For the privacy of our children, only the email addresses that are on the MFM mailing list can access the newsletter.
Meeting Times
11 am Sundays (currently online during the Delta Variant surge, with plans to return to hybrid worship in the future)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
10:30 am Saturdays (in the meetinghouse backyard)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
What's New
This year's theme is "Resilience and hope: drawing strength from our Quaker faith."
The following queries are suggested:
The passage shared during Meeting for Worship was from Carol Murphy:
Now is where we live, now is where the past must be overcome, now is where we meet others, now is where we must find the presence of God.
Friends gathered in September to remember Jere. One Friend recalled how delighted Jere had been by a surprise birthday party where she was presented by cake. This Friend said that often thereafter on their way to meeting, Jere would grin and say, "Will there be cake today?"
For more information about this FCNL online event, see https://www.fcnl.org/events/quaker-peace-advocacy-two-decades-war
The meetinghouse will be cleaned late morning and early afternoon on Saturday. Anyone planning to drop by the meetinghouse for meeting business should plan around this schedule as needed for COVID safety.
The Racial Justice Ad-hoc Committee met online in September to listen to and discuss Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge's Salter address to the 2021 Britain Yearly Meeting.
The following links were included in the recording to allow Friends to follow up with further research as they are led:
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11 am Sundays (currently online during the Delta Variant surge, with plans to return to hybrid worship in the future)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
10:30 am Saturdays (in the meetinghouse backyard)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
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