Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting

Meeting Information / Map and Directions
Clerk: Gary Nisley
Meeting for Worship: Every First Day (Sunday) at 10:30 AM
Our Location: 21 North Main St. (Route 9), Tuckerton N.J.
Phone: 609-294-3636

DIRECTIONS:

FROM THE NORTH: Take the Parkway south to EXIT 58. At the top of the ramp Make a left turn toward Tuckerton. Go Four Miles to the TRAFFIC LIGHT. At the Light make a right turn on to ROUTE 9 ( Main St.). OUR DRIVEWAY IS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE FIRST BUILDING ON YOUR RIGHT. LOOK FOR OUR SIGN

FROM THE WEST: Take Route 72 east to Route 539 South. After you cross the Parkway go four miles to the TRAFFIC LIGHT. At the Light make a right turn on to ROUTE 9 ( Main St.). OUR DRIVEWAY IS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE FIRST BUILDING ON YOUR RIGHT. LOOK FOR OUR SIGN.

FROM THE SOUTH: Take the Parkway North to EXIT 50. Follow Route 9 North about Seven Miles to the Boro of Tuckerton. When Lake Pohatcong is on your left and the Tuckerton Seaport with the big white Lighthouse on your right you are almost there. The street will turn to the right just beyond the lake you will be looking at a beige building, this is ELEVEN EAST MAIN ST. You will see their sign. Our driveway is immediately after the last building on your left. Our driveway is across from WAWA. LOOK FOR OUR SIGN.

Quaker Studies group meets every Month

Friends meet for a round table discussion on Third First Day (Third Sunday) of every month after Meeting for Worship. The topics we discuss range over the entire spectrum of Quaker thought, and are taken from books that have been published in the 350 years since the Religious Society of Friends began. Our topic for discussion can be suggested by any member of the group. Usually it is a book, a pamphlet, or a Bible verse that has spoken to his or her condition, and they feel it offers an opportunity for spiritual deepening that will benefit others in the group. Discussions can be as short as a session or two for a Pendle Hill Pamphlet, or as long as a year for an important book like John Woolman's Journal. Everyone is welcome to come and join the discussion, or even just listen.

Extracts from writings by Friends

I have never lost the enjoyment of sitting in silence at the beginning of meeting, knowing that everything can happen, knowing the joy of utmost surprise; feeling that nothing is preordained, nothing is set, all is open. The light can come from all sides. The joy of experiencing the Light in a completely different way than one has thought it would come is one of the greatest gifts that Friends' meeting for worship has brought me.
---- Ursula Franklin, 1979 ----

As Catholic worship is centered in the altar and Protestant worship in the sermon, worship for the Society of Friends attempts to realize as its center the divine Presence revealed within. In a Catholic church the altar is placed so as to become the focus of adoration; in the typical Protestant church the pulpit localizes attention; while in a Friends Meeting House there is no visible point of concentration, worship being here directed neither toward the actions nor the words of others, but toward the inward experience of the gathered group.
---- Howard Brinton, 1952 ----

It is unfortunate that much formal training in ministry does not even recognize that... inward preparation exists. In our world of degrees, exams, and training programs, it is easy to forget that ministry is not primarily a task; it is a way of being in the world. It is living in relationship with God and being a witness to God. Ministry is being able to listen to the word of God and thereby have a word of life to share with others. Fundamentally, we do not do ministry. We are ministers.
---- Sandra Cronk, 1991 ----

Has anyone seen our Cemetery Book?

During the time our Meeting was laid down, that is to say inactive, our property was cared for by members of other Meetings. When the last caretaker died we think he had our cemetery book in his posession. After his death his family had an estate sale. It is likely that our book was accidently sold during this sale, since his family did not realize that it was in his house at the time of his death. We are anxious to get it back, and we wish to buy it back from the person that bought it.

Why is this book so important? It lists where everyone in our cemetery is buried, even those Friends who were buried at the time when we did not use headstones mto mark graves. It is a guide to our past, and without using it to know which plots are vacant, no one else can be interred there.

So if you have our Cemetery Book, or if you know where it is, please contact us at 294-3636 so that we may recover it.