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! We 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 03/12/2023
Greetings, Friends,
At the 03/12/2023 meeting for business, Friends agreed on the following:

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 and in-person)
Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)
7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.
What's New

To know Joanne is to know how she sees the divine in our vast universe. For the past several years, she has shared with us her process in bringing the solar system scale model to Memphis, and we're excited to share with her the model's launch:

Jackie Murray updated Memphis Friends during the 3/19 meeting for learning about her film project, Calling On Harriet. Together we watched a short film on Tilly's Escape, one of the episodes of Harriet Tubman's life that will make up the film. The primary documentation shedding light on the escape is a letter between two abolitionist Quakers.

Greetings SAYMA Friends from your FCNL Reps!
--Brave and Constant: FCNL’s Annual Meeting 2022 brought over 500 Friends together online and in person to lobby for environmental justice and to do its annual business. If you want to know more: https://www.fcnl.org/events/brave-constant-annual-meeting-2022

To register: https://quakerearthcare.org/event/worship-sharing-2/

Tennessee Statement of Dignity and Against Discrimination
The fundamental dignity of every person is the cornerstone of good public policy. Wisdom leads us to respect the diversity of our neighbors and to a shared prosperity for all. Words and laws that divide us have no place as Tennessee looks to the future. We need the strengths of everyone.

Per the July business meeting, we have decided to offer hybrid worship (both in-person and Zoom worship) on Sundays at 11:00 when the county's COVID status is green or yellow.
Worship with us!
11 am Sundays (Zoom and in-person)
Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)
7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.