Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting exists to enrich and support the collective spiritual journey of our members and Meetings and their efforts to give tangible expression to their experience of the Divine.  Individual Quakers belong to Monthly Meetings.  However, since our earliest days Friends have also formed Yearly Meetings, coming together in the larger gatherings for worship, fellowship, and to enlarge and extend our witness in the world.

The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is made up of 100+ Monthly (or individual) Meetings in the tri-state area of PA, NJ and some DE.

Here are some other links to help you get to know PYM ...

You can also find the link to the Sept 2020 Clerk's Queries at this link.

Hello
Hello and welcome to our meeting. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

 

New to Meeting for Worship? 


If you've never attended a Meeting for Worship, we hope you will come worship with us.   

Many have found help in viewing the "introductory" videos to answer questions that might arise in expectation of a Quaker Meeting for Worship.   

Most Quaker meetings, at least in this part of country, are so-called "unprogrammed" meetings. This means that our meetings for worship are not led by a minister but are largely conducted in silence.  Typically, a Clerk or other Member of the Meeting will close worship with a simple "Good morning, friends" but otherwise the meeting may be completely silent. 

Members and attenders are always invited to speak out of the silence with a message about their spiritual journey, although messages are not responded to directly.

ripples

A message has been described as a pebble tossed into a pond.  The resulting ripples are received by others in the meeting and may contribute to their own spiritual journeys.