Each year the Ministry and Worship Committee prepares a Spiritual State of the Meeting report. The committee writes the report using information from two sources: the year-end reports submitted by each committee of the Meeting and, equally or more importantly, sharing...
Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices [QuakerPress of FGC 2010 356p.] celebrates, critiques, questions, and reflects on the Quaker faith experience. Writing and visual art by teenage and young adult Quakers from around the world and across the theological and cultural...
Submitted by Betsy Brinson & Curt Torrell The decision to allow women to serve in all combat roles by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on December3, 2015 should be enough to reverse Rostker v. Goldberg, the Supreme Court decision upholding women...
Richmond Friends Meeting Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Twelfth Month 20, 2015 Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Forty (40) members and attenders were present. Laura Cribbs was greeter. Mary Julia Street from Ministry and Worship sat on the...
MWB Minutes Draft November 2015 Richmond Friends Meeting Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Eleventh Month 15, 2015 Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Fifty-six (56) members and attenders were present. Clarisse Harton was greeter. Jan Hampton...
We sometimes call ourselves the “Agers.” We are a group of retirement age members and attenders of Richmond Friends Meeting who have formed a self-help support group. We welcome new members. There are minimal requirements to join. Annually one pays $25 a year and...
Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Fifty-five (55) members and attenders were present. Bob Alexander was greeter. Jan Hampton from Ministry and Worship sat on the facing bench to hold Meeting in the Light. Donna Shields was welcomed as a first-time attender to...
The RE Committee’s sale of unique peace-themed t-shirts for the International Day of Peace in September raised over $300 for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Thank you so much for your generous support of this organization. Should you wish to...
Last year Peace and Social Concerns conducted a blood drive at the Meetinghouse during June. Twenty three donations were collected. However, a close evaluation of the donor list suggested RFM may not be large enough to sustain such in-house collections. Twenty five...
All are invited to Richmond Friends Meetings’ Fall Retreat with John Calvi at the Clearing, Saturday November 14 from 9am to 3pm. John has been working as a Quaker healer and retreat leader since 1982. The Goodness Workshop is a slow, quiet time where any sharing...