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Religious Society of
Friends - The Quakers
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Religious Society of
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American Friends Service Committee (www.afsc.org) serves from a Quaker perspective wherever help is needed in the world. Britain Yearly Meeting (www.quaker.org.uk) is home to 27,000 British Friends in some 500 local Meetings. Western Quaker Sites (members.aol.com/friendsbul/WestFriendsDirectory.html) lists Unprogrammed Friends Meetings and other Friends groups in the Western United States. Fellowship of Friends of African Descent (http://www.fellowshipoffriendsofafricandescent.org/) describes opportunities for fellowship among Friends of color. Friends Committee on National Legislation (www.fcnl.org) serves as the national Quaker Lobby. Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (http://flgbtqc.quaker.org) is a North American Quaker faith community that affirms that of God in all people. |
Friends General Conference (www.fgcquaker.org) serves as a central clearinghouse for Friends in Yearly Meetings throughout the Eastern and Central United States.
Friends Journal (www.friendsjournal.org) is a monthly journal available on subscription providing a voice for Quaker life and thought today.
Friends United Meeting (http://www.fum.org/) is the central body for programmed Friends who share our witness for peace, simplicity, and the Light within, but who differ in having pastors and set forms for part of their Meetings for Worship. Also, those Friends are generally more trinitarian, evangalical, and socially conservative than are we.
Friends World Committee for Consultation ( http://fwccworld.org/ ) is the broadest voice for all Friends in the world today, numbering some 350,000 persons.
Historic Walnford (http://www.monmouthcountyparks.com/parks/walnford.asp) is a living history site administered by the Monmouth County Park System in New Jersey. For 200 years, it was home to the Waln Family of our fellowship' their grist mill on an 18th cnetury pattern still stands andhas been fully restored, a visible witness to the Quaker peace testimony, since unlike most other such milles it was never scrapped to support the wars that have rolled past in the last two centuries.
John Woolman Memorial Association (http://woolmancentral.com/JWMA.html) Located in Mount Holly, New Jersey, Woolman house is the site of lectures and programs of special interest to Friends.
Pendle Hill Quaker Study and Contemplation Center (www.pendlehill.org) is located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. Online and walk-in bookstore a good regional source for Quaker materials.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, (www.pym.org) counts 11,000 Friends among its 110 member Meetings roughly centered on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Burlington is one of its 13 Quarters.
Quaker Bookstore Online (www.quakerbooks.org) is a national source for Quaker publications.
Quaker Information Center(http://www.quakerinfo.org/) located in the lobby of Friends Center in Philadelphia, provides online, in print, phone, and in person information about Quakers on a wide range of topics.
The Religious Society of Friends (www.quaker.org) lists a wide range of Quaker resources.
Worldwide Directory of Friends Meetings (www.quaker.org/meetings.html) provides a master list of Friends Meetings.
This page was last updated Ninth Month 12, 2007.
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