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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How We Worship

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.

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Posted by Laura Helper on 04/18/2019 - 10:53am

COVID-19 Update - using the CDC color system

Updated 08/14/2022

Greetings, Friends,

At the 08/14 meeting for business, Friends agreed on the following:

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Posted by Blake Burr on 09/15/2022 - 11:44pm

Memphis Friends, Are You Missing Out?

Memphis Friends, are you logging in to the web site to see all information? If not, you are missing out on resources like:

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Posted by Blake Burr on 12/19/2020 - 9:58pm

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Ruth Boaz Library Catalog

The Communications Committee is in the process of building an online version of the card catalog.

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Posted by Blake Burr on 09/23/2022 - 9:24pm

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

That of God

The passage shared at the 9/25 meeting for worship was from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845):

I look not to myself, but to that within me, that has to my admiration proved to be my present help, and enabled me to do what I believe of myself I could not have done.

This FCNL article places Elizabeth Fry's legacy within the long Quaker tradition of advocacy for prison reform:

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Posted by Blake Burr on 09/27/2022 - 2:59pm

MFM October News - A Sampling

Memphis Friends found our first meeting spaces at Rhodes College in 1984. When our campus sponsor left Memphis, we moved to the Seventh Day Adventist Church on East Parkway, then to a rented building in Cooper-Young. When we learned the owners were going to sell that building, we began in earnest to find a place we could count on. The search began in midtown, but since an accessible building meant having both worship space and first day school on one floor, we began to look further east. We were led to 3387 Walnut Grove, and moved in the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2008.

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Posted by Blake Burr on 09/27/2022 - 11:56am