Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)
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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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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
Carol's Meeting for Learning on 6/25 covered all Quaker testimonies - known among Quakers as the SPICES - but put the spotlight on the I testimony of Integrity. She likened the testimonies as stones brought home from a trip, to be held and considered.
She invited Friends to share how the Integrity testimony has spoken to them.
Several Friends spoke of this testimony as a foundation useful in withstanding storms - something including but perhaps more than honesty, fairness, authenticity, consistency, congruity, wholeness, and accountability.
FWCC World Plenary 2024
Carol
Friends World Committee on Consultation grew out of a world-wide conference of Quakers held in 1937. Ever since, FWCC has worked to connect Quakers in every region on every continent whether programmed or unprogrammed, orthodox or liberal.
Ethel “Doris” Connor, 68, died at home Thursday, June 22, 2023. The last few days of her life were mostly spent sleeping and listening to friends who came to say goodbye. She died a few minutes after some of her deepest friends spoke to her about her beloved children, grandchildren, and her part of the Quaker community that cared so much for her. She made us better people.
Sarah Houston, executive director of Protect Our Aquifer, was the guest presenter for the 6/18 meeting for learning. She reviewed the history of POA and its current projects. Friends had many questions. Sarah urged Friends to utilize tools on the POA web site to email MLGW leadership and amplify Memphians' call for new safer, cooling solutions at TVA's Allen Combined Cycle Plant: https://www.protectouraquifer.org/now
Afterwards Sarah worshiped with Friends.
The passage shared by Co-Clerk Kelly on the Father's Day meeting for worship was from Margaret Fell, sometimes referred to as "the Mother of Quakerism":
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
Kelly's query was something along these lines: How do we learn from the wisdom of historical Quakers without revering them inappropriately?
The passage used to open the June business meeting was from Basics of Conducting a Quaker Business Meeting:
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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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