Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)
10/03/2023: The meeting's web site is being transferred to a new web host. The new web site will be reachable at www.memphisfriendsmeeting.org. The QuakerCloud web host will cease operation 12/31/2023.
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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:
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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
The query offered at business meeting and meeting for worship on 9/10 was how we nourish our friendships so that they deepen over time.
At business meeting, plans were shared for thanksgiving baskets this year. New Tyler AME has arranged to receive turkeys and hams for the 100 or so friends who frequent the church's food pantry. On behalf of the meeting, Robin has committed for our meeting to gather food basket items for 20 food baskets to complement the meat items. Here is a shopping list of the requested basket items:
The Memphis Theological Seminary's Center for Faith and Imagination is sponsoring a no-cost retreat October 30-31 at St. Columba Retreat Center outside Memphis: "A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman" with Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown.
The Justice Working Group is planning to be at the Pride Kick-off event at the Benjamin Hooks Library, September 2, from 11 to 2 (https://memphislibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=67213&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2023/09/01).
A message shared in meeting for worship on 08/20 referred to the song Turn! Turn! Turn!, written by Pete Seeger and based on a passage from Ecclesiastes. The song was recorded by the Byrds in 1965, and so it provided a powerful connection also to the day's Meeting for Learning, which featured David C's personal stories from the years 1961 through 1971.
Ecclesiastes 3
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
At the 8/14 meeting for business and meeting for worship, the clerk read excerpts of news coverage about Courtney Ross's death in police custody. Then he read a passage from Matthew:
[37] Then the righteous will answer him, `Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink?
[38] And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee?
[39] And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?
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.
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