Miami Friends Meeting
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Welcome to Miami Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, known to most people as Quakers. Our faith and practices are based on the belief that every person has a divine spark, often called the Inner Light, which is available to guide us towards doing what is right. It is this basic belief that leads us to oppose war and to work actively for peace and justice.
In practice, we sit in silence in our meeting for worship until someone feels certain they have been given a divine message meant to be shared with everyone present. In a Friends meeting, there may be a wide range of ideas about the nature of divinity, names used, and sources of inspiration, including but not exclusively the Bible, the writings of George Fox, the man who started Quakerism, and other sacred texts and inspired contemporary writings.
All are welcome to join us for Meeting for Worship at the Meeting House. If you would like to attend on Zoom, you can email a request for the meeting invitation to info@miamifriends.org.
Meeting Times
Firstday (Sunday)
Meeting for Worship 10:30am-11:30am
Firstday School 10:30am-11:30am
Adult Education 9:30am-10:30am
What's New
Kathy Hersh signed on to a letter from the Florida League of Women's Voters to the governor, requesting state gun control legislation, as the clerk of Miami Friends Meeting.
Emily Wirzba, from Friends National Committee on Legislation, and her colleague Jose Aguto, accompanied members of Miami Friends Meeting and other participants from last Sunday's lobbying workshop to meetings with staff at the offices of Rep. Mario Diaz Balart and Rep. Carlos Curbelo yesterday (6-15-16). Emily was "really impressed" in the tone and manner in which we conveyed our personal concerns and related to the staffers. Positive and strong connections were made, specially in Rep. Curbelo's office. Persistence, Emily reminded us in the workshop, is the name of the game.
Quakers believe . . .
- Every person is known by God and can know God in a direct relationship.
When you visit our Quaker Meeting, you will find a simple setting with chairs facing the center of the room. You may sit anywhere you wish.
6/12/2016 from 2:00-5:00pm, Miami Friends Meeting
Climate Change Lobby Training Workshop: Relationship-Building in a Time of Political Division
Join the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Emily Wirzba for a discussion on how relationship-building can shift the dialogue in Congress on climate change. In a time of political division and partisanship, this workshop will focus on the hopeful narrative that bipartisan action on climate change is possible and is driven by grassroots engagement.
Attendees of this hands-on workshop will learn:
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