Abington Quarterly Meeting

Website: http://www.abingtonquarter.org/

Our life is love, & peace, & tenderness; & bearing one with another, & forgiving one another, & not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, & helping one another up with a tender hand. -Isacc Pennington, 1667

What is the Quarterly Meeting?

The Religious Society of Friends is organized into Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meetings. 

The basic unit is the Monthly Meeting, the equivalent to the local congregation in most other churches. It is customary for Friends to worship every Sunday at a designated time. It is also the practice to hold business meetings once a month. 

Members of a Monthly Meeting are also members of the Quarterly meeting which meets for worship and business every three months, at the meetinghouse of one of the monthly meetings. 

Similarly, all members within a certain geographic region belong to a Yearly Meeting which meets for several days once a year. 

There are 9 monthly meetings and 2 worship groups in Abington Quarter. 

Abington Quarterly Meeting is a member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.