Richmond (VA) Friends Meeting

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Thinking About Race (December 2023) — “The Work of Christmas”

When the song of the angels is stilled,When the star in the sky is gone,When the kings and the princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins:To find...

A New Committee Model

Nominating Committee wants to draw your attention to a committee model using auxiliary helpers who are not committee members. The model provides a way to extend the work of a committee without...

The Photo Board!

The Care & Counsel committee is updating the photo board outside of the community room. If you have a recent photo, no larger than 41/4 square inches of you or you with your family, please give...

New Friendly Eights Group

I posted a new open group called, “Hens and Chicks”.  My idea is for women of a certain age, and we know who we are, to get together with those women who haven’t reached that certain age to...

Updating Photo Board

Care and Counsel is updating the photo board. If you have a recent photo of yourself and/or family no larger than 4 1⁄4” please give it to Charlotte Davenport or Sallie Rugg. Please write names in...

Friends General Conference–More than just The Gathering

The Friends General Conference is familiar to us as the group that puts on our annual Gathering but they do so much more. They offer virtual activities on many topics for all ages. Currently, there...


Aging in Community Support Group

The “Aging in Community Support Group” is open to members and attenders of retirement age.From our Mission Statement “We want to help each other. We want to be a source of practical, emotional, and...

Hearing Assistance during Worship

Ministry & Worship Committee wants to let you know that if you have trouble hearing messages during Meeting for Worship, you are welcome to pick up a hearing assistance device at the front door....

Community Work Day for BYM Camps

Community Work Day at BYM camps- help prepare the camps for the winter.  CAMP SHILOH Spend time in the Shenandoah cleaning, making repairs and putting camp to bed for the winter. October...

Joseph and Mary Judy Otieno

Since moving to this country about a year ago, Mary Judith has been unable to work because of the status of her immigration documents. Joseph has consulted his lawyer, whom he has known for a long...

Richmond Quakers Vote!

It's time to move toward our Meeting's goal of 100% participation in the November 7, 2023, polling.Here's a link to a site where you can:-- Confirm your registration--- Register (if you haven't...

Upcoming Adult Spiritual Education Events

Adult Spiritual Education will be holding two sessions on the Pendle Hill pamphlet, "Reclaiming the Transcendent. God in Process" by Thomas Gates. Both sessions will be held on Saturdays from 9:30...

Friendly Eight Groups Are Forming

So far there are 11 friendly eights groups to choose from. Sign-up sheets remain posted until October 1st. (Even after that date, please feel free to contact the conveners if you are interested.)...

RFM Committees and Positions

ichmond Friends Meeting has no pastor and no paid staff. The work of operating the meeting is done by its members and attenders. Service in a particular position or on a committee is rewarding and...

BYM Antiracism Organizing and Training

The Race and Racism Ad Hoc Committee would like to share the following training provided by BYM:  The BYM Working Group on Racism has arranged for Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training...

Friends’ Decision-Making and Clerking: Participating in Meetings for Business with Joy and Confidence

This is an opportunity for both new and experienced clerks of Friends’ meetings and committees to meet and think about the role of presiding clerk in the spiritual practice of meeting for business....

Notes from the Library Committee

As you're getting ready for Fall, please look around your home and check if you have any books from our Library that you have overlooked returning. Thanks!! Your Library committee is...

RFM Joins VICPP “100% Voting Congregations Initiative”

In our July Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business we approved joining Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s “100% Voting Congregations Initiative”. This is a crucial year for our...

Adult Spiritual Education Fall Program

Adult Spiritual Education will be holding two sessions on the Pendle Hill pamphlet, “Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process” by Thomas Gates(pamphlet #422). Both sessions...

Invitation to a deeper spiritual experience:

Spiritual Formation Program, Sept. 2023-May 2024 The Baltimore Yearly Meeting(BYM) Spiritual Formation Program invites its participants into a deeper spiritual experience through...

The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

The Adult Spiritual Education Committee will host a meeting of the Historical Jesus Study Group on the book, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, written by...

C. Wayne Taylor Bequest Ad Hoc Committee

SAVE THE DATE:  Thursday, September 14, 7-8:15 p.m. Zoom presentation by the C. Wayne Taylor Bequest Ad Hoc Committee ". . .to be used for the direct benefit of needy people residing in...

Race and Racism Ad Hoc Committee, Listening Circles

The Race and Racism Ad Hoc Committee will host 4 listening circles, continuing our charge of engaging the Meeting in an inclusive and open discernment process to learn what our meeting is led to do...

Assistance with Transportation to Meeting For Worship

DO YOU NEED HELP WITH TRANSPORTATION TO MEETING FOR WORSHIP? Care & Counsel is offering a trial program to reimburse you for the cost of one Uber or Lyft ride to or from Meeting for Worship once...

Meal Train launched to support Brooke, Nick, and Andrew

To the Richmond Friends Meeting community, Brooke Davis, Nick Martina, and Andrew Kossan are deeply grieving after the heartbreaking sudden death by overdose of Andrew's older brother, Alex, on July...

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Meeting For Worship

Community

Quakerism is an experiential faith. We come together to learn how to put into daily practice our tenets of:

    • simplicity & stewardship
    • peacefulness
    • integrity
    • community
    • equality

Each person’s path may be different but the shared journey deepens and enriches our lives. We welcome everyone to our fellowship.

We provide opportunities for both children and adults for religious education and spiritual growth including:

    • Sunday classes and forums
    • Bible Study
    • in-depth exploration of spiritual paths

We also offer service activities, a meditative retreat center in Amelia County, shared meals, and opportunities for friendship and community building.

Social Action

Quakers have been on the leading edge of peacemaking and human rights issues for hundreds of years. Our roots in prison reform, anti-slavery, women’s suffrage, and peacemaking undergird today’s missions, among them:

    • reforming criminal justice
    • finding alternatives to violence
    • caring for the earth
    • working toward equity in our own neighborhood and around the world

We seek not only to understand the issues but also to take considered, concrete action to bring about change.

Some of our organizations putting Quaker Values to work: