Feb 11, 2025 | History - RFM, Minuted Decisions, Race & Racism ad hoc
Summary of Recommended Actions for Richmond Friends Meeting 2025 and 2026 Form a three-person Race and Racial Justice Team, whose members will serve two-year terms, under the care of the Clerk of Meeting. Reparations to Indigenous peoples – Form a short-term ad hoc...
May 18, 2024 | Activity, Adult Spiritual Education, Announcement, History - Quaker, History - RFM
Adult Spiritual Education invites all members and attenders, those new to Quakerism as well as seasoned Friends, to learn more about our history. Mark your calendars and plan on joining us on Saturday, June 22 at 9:30. Our topic will be Quaker History: Evolution and...
Sep 15, 2019 | History - Quaker, History - RFM
R. Arnold Ricks III, 94, on February 24, 2018, at home in Bennington, Vt. Arnold was born on August 23, 1923, in Richmond, Va., to Anne Elizabeth Ryland and James Hoge Ricks. His father, a member of Richmond (Va.) Meeting, was from a long-established Quaker family and...
Dec 2, 2017 | Announcement, History - RFM
Midlothian Friends Meeting was established in 1986 as an ‘indulged’ meeting by the Ministry and Worship committee of Richmond Friends Meeting. The article below describes more about the history of Midlothian Friends Meeting. Midlothian Friends Meeting
Dec 2, 2017 | Announcement, History - RFM
At the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Richmond Friends Meeting meeting at our current location on Kensington Avenue, a slideshow was shown of the history of Friends in Richmond, Virginia. Meeting Historian Betsy Brinson collected the material. Dan Shaw and...
Sep 26, 2015 | History - Quaker, History - RFM
Few people alive today know that the Powhatan hamlet of Fine Creek was a center of Quaker life in what was once part of Goochland County; then a part of Cumberland County with its formation in 1749; and finally a part of Powhatan County with that county’s formation in...