About Friends General Conference
Founded in 1900, FGC has grown from a voluntary organization of seven yearly meetings created to hold a “general conference” every other year into a vibrant association of fourteen yearly meetings and regional groups and ten directly-affiliated monthly meetings that serves Quakers year-round with a vast array of programs and services.
Our Minute of Purpose reads:
Our Minute of Purpose reads:
Friends General Conference, with Divine guidance, nurtures the spiritual vitality of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by providing programs and services for Friends, meetings, and seekers.
Major Goals
- Nurture meetings and worship groups.
- Provide resources and opportunities for meetings, Friends, and seekers to experience the Light, the living presence of God.
- Help meetings guide Friends to discern the leadings of the Inward Teacher and to grow into ministry.
- Transform our awareness so that our corporate and individual attitudes and actions fully value and encompass the blessed diversity of our human family.
- Work to grow and sustain a vital, diverse, and loving community of Friends based on a shared search for unity in the Spirit.
- Articulate, communicate, and exemplify Friends' practices, core experiences, and the call to live and witness to our faith.
- Promote dialogue with others, sharing with them our corporate experience of Divine Truth and listening to and learning from their experience of the same.
- Alaska Friends Conference (250)
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting (4,746)
- Canadian Yearly Meeting (1,216)
- Illinois Yearly Meeting (1,212)
- InterMountain Yearly Meeting (1,008)
- Lake Erie Yearly Meeting (712)
- New England Yearly Meeting (4,164)
- New York Yearly Meeting (3,512)
- Northern Yearly Meeting (1,475)
- Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (783)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (11,746)
- Piedmont Friends Fellowship (900)
- South Central Yearly Meeting (446)
- Southeastern Yearly Meeting (570)
- Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association (1,245)
Listed above in parentheses are the yearly meeting membership totals
Monthly Meetings
