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.
Updated: 01/14/2022
The Thursday joint task force press conference reported all metrics above our approved thresholds. Therefore, our Sunday morning activities on 01/16 will be online only:
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.
Meeting Times
11 am Sundays (Zoom worship every Sunday. In-person worship at the Meetinghouse decided week by week, based on prior week's COVID metrics)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
What's New
At the 1/16 Can Drive get-together at the meetinghouse, 11 Friends assembled boxes of canned goods to take to the blessing box or little pantry of their choosing on MLK Day (or to take to the Mid-South Food Bank collection station at the Civil Rights Museum's MLK Day celebration). Susan made hot chocolate and hot cider to share. Deliveries were made (or will be made soon) to 10 little pantries and also to a Mid-South Food Bank drop-off site.
Here's the list of blessing boxes and little pantries in Shelby County:
The Black Quaker Project has put together an exciting series of movie/panel events beginning February 12 and running through April 9. Events will be held on every other Saturday at noon central time.
https://www.theblackquakerproject.org/black-quaker-lives-matter-film-fes...
The passage shared in the January 9 meeting for worship is from Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity (a book that is available for checkout in the MFM library). It is a quotation from Sharon Daloz Parks:
"Faith community: creating a space where obedience to truth can be practiced."
Memphis Young Friends are planning the monthly Southern Appalachian Young Friends retreat scheduled for April. To find out how Memphis Friends can support the retreat, please contact Kelly.
Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting monthly online worship sharing groups in partnership with Friends General Conference.
The query shared during meeting for worship was:
As we move into the new year, a time when we release that which doesn’t serve us and cultivate that which does, how can we utilize the Quaker testimonies as a guide in our daily lives?
S-P-I-C-E-S : Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship
Friends shared messages about the simplicity testimony.
For a QuakerSpeak video on the testimonies, see https://quakerspeak.com/video/spices/
Worship with us!
11 am Sundays (Zoom worship every Sunday. In-person worship at the Meetinghouse decided week by week, based on prior week's COVID metrics)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
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