Friends can find minutes from Annual Sessions here. The minutes provide a record of what Friends considered and the decisions made during our time together.
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Finding Friends Together
On Saturday, September 19, our yearly meeting hosted Finding Friends: Outreach and Faithful Sharing. [Read more…] about Finding Friends Together
We’re Excited for Benjamin Lay’s Return This October| Press Release
The following is attributed to Lee Hall of Radnor Meeting.
We’re excited! Three of our local Meetings will welcome Mark Povinelli, as Benjamin, reading a condensed version of the original play The Return of Benjamin Lay. Each performance will also include a discussion with the actor, joined by historian/playwright Marcus Rediker. Invite a friend or two! [Read more…] about We’re Excited for Benjamin Lay’s Return This October| Press Release
Epistle – Journeying in the Light 2026
Dear Friends Everywhere,
Godly Play/ Faith & Play storytellers from 16 states coast-to-coast gathered onsite and online at Pendle Hill to share community and to collaborate over three days in August 2026 for Journeying in the Light. [Read more…] about Epistle – Journeying in the Light 2026
Detainees and our Duty to Witness, Report, and Defend | Rejena Girton
The following is attributed to Rejena Girton of Millville Monthly Meeting.
You may not know me. I am Rejena Girton, Millville Monthly Meeting. I work at a residential trade school where Rubens attended, where he and I worked on his immigration status together, and where he graduated and fled after receiving his TPS Haitian letter to self deport. [Read more…] about Detainees and our Duty to Witness, Report, and Defend | Rejena Girton
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Invites Friends School Students and Families to Participate in Youth Programs
Meetings connected to Friends schools are asked to share this article with teachers, parents, board members, and others in their school communities. Friends who share it can consider how their meeting might welcome families whose connection to the Religious Society of Friends comes through the school their child attends. Sharing the article can be one way to help those families learn that their connection to Friends can extend beyond the school community.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Outreach Tips of The Week: January through September 10
Since the beginning of 2026, The weekly newsletter Philadelphia Yearly Meeting sends each Thursday afternoon includes an “Outreach Tip of the Week.” The tip is a short note Friends can use right away or hold in discernment. The tip is also meant to be one practical idea for welcoming seekers into meeting life, pulled from tips, sample wording, and submissions from Friends through an online form. [Read more…] about Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Outreach Tips of The Week: January through September 10
Final Performances of A Quiet Roar at Arch Street Meeting House
This Labor Day Weekend, watch one of the final four performances of A Quiet Roar: The Unparalleled Lives of Bayard Rustin & Sarah Mapps Douglass, a Semiquincentennial theater program at Arch Street Meeting House (320 Arch Street). [Read more…] about Final Performances of A Quiet Roar at Arch Street Meeting House
Share with Your Quaker Community
Every Friend that shares their gifts, skills, and opportunities within our faith community keeps our community connected. [Read more…] about Share with Your Quaker Community
Remembering Gene Elston Hillman
On May 2, 2026, Gene Elston Hillman, 82, died in the West Chester Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of "natural causes".
Gene was born October 26, 1943 to Barbara Kelley Hillman and Elston Hillman in another University of Pennsylvania hospital, this one in Philadelphia — a hospital that literally saved his life in the 1980’s, almost 50 years later. Gene’s early years were spent in what was then the “farm country” of Downingtown, where he liked to say his closest playmates were “cows and horses” as well as the three large Collies his parents owned as pets.
