Specialties
Meeting for Worship Sundays 10 AM Children are welcome--First Day School 10:15-11 AM Visitors of all backgrounds are welcome, regardless of age, color, race, national origin, political affiliation, veteran status, religious background, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to a spirit of community that values the dignity and worth of everyone. We are Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends. We gather to worship in silence, believing that God's spirit can touch each of us directly, without the need for rituals or intermediaries. In the silence we try to settle into a deep place of stillness at the center of our being, where we can discern what God means in our lives. There we find healing and renewal, new understanding of what we ought to do or say, and the strength to do what we must. Sometimes someone will rise and speak out of the silence, sharing the insights or questions that come out of the spiritual search. We listen to each other with love, hearing not only the words--which may, if we listen carefully, speak directly to our own needs--but the spirit behind the words. We are a community, and we need each other. At the close of meeting we shake hands with our neighbors, affirming the communal experience we have shared. (Reprinted with permission from Swarthmore Friends Meeting)