Millville Friends Meeting
The First Meeting House, a Log building was constructed in 1795, then in 1847 a new Meeting House was built with brick. The Millville Friends Meeting is part of a larger collection of meeting houses from the surrounding geographical area, called the Upper Susquehanna Quarterly Meeting. This collective of meetings and meeting houses comprises Elklands, Huntington, Lewisburg, Millville, North Branch, Pennsdale, State College, Sterling, Towanda and Wellsboro.
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Meeting Times
Meeting for Worship
Every Sunday at 10am
Our meetings for worship are now all held in-person at the Meetinghouse each Sunday at 10:00 am. Masking is recommended, but not required. Most First Days (Sunday) after meeting for worship, we host an activity, discussion, social time, or outdoors activities. Once a month, on the second First Day, we gather to attend to business before meeting for worship. We resume the business meeting around 11:10 if there is still unfinished business on the agenda. See schedule below for details. If you have questions about meeting for worship or any of our activities, please contact us, and we will follow up with an email.
e hold online Meeting for Worship on Zoom twice monthly, usually on the first and third Sundays of each month. We meet at 9 am and worship for 30 minutes. Anyone is welcome to join us. To attend for the first time and receive the Zoom link, contact the Clerk at millvillefriendsmeeting@gmail.com.
First Day (Sunday) worship schedule
4/16/23 Virtual Worship at 9:00 am / In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Paul Loomis will share his experience in Costa Rica during January. The Weber- Loomis’s spent time at Monte Verde, a community founded by Quakers.
4/23/23 In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Tai Chi Janice will provide an introductory session to the 5 principles of Tai Chi, 3 basic movements and a beneficial exercise.
If you are unsure of your physical capacity to stand for the movements and exercise, bring a stool about 2 feet high. That way you will be able to participate in most of the session.
4/30/23 In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Social time and a query circle if appropriate
5/7/23 Virtual Worship at 9:00 am / In-person Worship at 10:00 am
Clean-up Day for the meetinghouse and grounds. Bring garden tools to work outside and/or cleaning supplies for working indoors.
5/14/23 Meeting for worship with attention to business starting at 9:00 am, and continuing at 11:10 if necessary.
In-person worship at 10:00 am.
Monthly Meeting for Business
Second Sunday of each month at 9am, continuing at 11:15 after worship.
For links to join this Zoom meeting contact us.
Financial donations
Checks made out to Millville Monthly Meeting, sent to Millville Monthly Meeting Treasurer, 453 Black Run Road, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. (FYI: At this point we are not accepting credit cards or any other digital payments.) Persons interested in donating goods or services should contact the Clerk via the contact us email link.
What's New
Repairs on the meetinghouse have been on-going, and it is looking great. Carolyn Dalton writes, "The flooring has been laid. We are looking forward to installing a new kitchen area and fixing the cracked plaster that resulted from settling due to the bad floor supports."
Also, the meeting’s minute of thanks was featured in the PYM newsletter
From an article by the Quakers in Britain
Faced with self-isolation and social distancing, Quakers across Britain have begun to meet in new ways. We are keeping the spirit flowing together, and maintaining our communities. Some have likened it to the way Quakers facing persecution centuries ago 'kept the meeting' in remarkable ways.
November was a busy month at our 175-year-old meetinghouse. Doolittle Construction workers completed much needed repairs to the meetinghouse’s failing foundation and floor beams. Nearly one- half of the community room’s floor was removed to enable workers to replace the floor beams, shore-up the column supports and access the foundation. They also installed moisture barriers in the crawlspace, and laid outdoor drains to provide additional moisture mitigation for the building.
In addition to our regular practice of meeting in person or virtually for quiet worship, Quakers sometimes take part in what is called Worship Sharing.
The artist and the Quaker are on the same internal journey. Each is seeking a relationship with the Divine, and each is seeking a way to express that relationship. There are just many different ways of expressing it. For many, the path to the Self has to be entered by way of the arts, whether or not we are gifted in that field. That doesn’t seem to matter. As St. Paul says: If we have not love, we are as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And for many of us, the pathway to love is through the arts.
“Monthly Meeting”, “Clerk”, “Convincement”, “Clearness”, “Minutes” – What do all these words have in common? They all mean something specific to Quakers!
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Meeting for Worship
Every Sunday at 10am
Our meetings for worship are now all held in-person at the Meetinghouse each Sunday at 10:00 am. Masking is recommended, but not required. Most First Days (Sunday) after meeting for worship, we host an activity, discussion, social time, or outdoors activities. Once a month, on the second First Day, we gather to attend to business before meeting for worship. We resume the business meeting around 11:10 if there is still unfinished business on the agenda. See schedule below for details. If you have questions about meeting for worship or any of our activities, please contact us, and we will follow up with an email.
e hold online Meeting for Worship on Zoom twice monthly, usually on the first and third Sundays of each month. We meet at 9 am and worship for 30 minutes. Anyone is welcome to join us. To attend for the first time and receive the Zoom link, contact the Clerk at millvillefriendsmeeting@gmail.com.
First Day (Sunday) worship schedule
4/16/23 Virtual Worship at 9:00 am / In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Paul Loomis will share his experience in Costa Rica during January. The Weber- Loomis’s spent time at Monte Verde, a community founded by Quakers.
4/23/23 In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Tai Chi Janice will provide an introductory session to the 5 principles of Tai Chi, 3 basic movements and a beneficial exercise.
If you are unsure of your physical capacity to stand for the movements and exercise, bring a stool about 2 feet high. That way you will be able to participate in most of the session.
4/30/23 In-person Worship at 10:00 am
AFD: Social time and a query circle if appropriate
5/7/23 Virtual Worship at 9:00 am / In-person Worship at 10:00 am
Clean-up Day for the meetinghouse and grounds. Bring garden tools to work outside and/or cleaning supplies for working indoors.
5/14/23 Meeting for worship with attention to business starting at 9:00 am, and continuing at 11:10 if necessary.
In-person worship at 10:00 am.
Monthly Meeting for Business
Second Sunday of each month at 9am, continuing at 11:15 after worship.
For links to join this Zoom meeting contact us.
Financial donations
Checks made out to Millville Monthly Meeting, sent to Millville Monthly Meeting Treasurer, 453 Black Run Road, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. (FYI: At this point we are not accepting credit cards or any other digital payments.) Persons interested in donating goods or services should contact the Clerk via the contact us email link.
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