Spiritual Deepening

Visit Quakers and attend Annual Sessions! Annual Sessions are a time to gather for Quaker business and fellowship. Friends General Conference shares the following information for Annual Sessions in 2025.

The High School Gathering Co-Clerk shares about the spiritual impact of the Gathering.

Reflections on the Weaving a Wider Welcome eRetreat, which ran from May 29-June 26, 2024

FGC’s newest experiment, the Encountering Spirit Retreat, brought together 135 Friends from five different countries.

Friends General Conference and Pendle Hill cosponsor an intergenerational LGBTQ+ retreat space.

Friends General Conference shares the following news that may be of interest to Friends and the Quaker-curious.

Thanks to the generosity of donors to FGC’s Gathering Together campaign, our community has been enriched by two new staff members.

Shifting social, financial, ecological, spiritual, and public health realities call us to experiment with new practices in how we gathering together as Friends.

The Friends General Conference Spiritual Deepening Program seeks eRetreat Facilitators for 2022-2023 sessions.

When Donna signed up for Spiritual Deepening eRetreats in early 2020, she expected to continue in her self-paced exploration into Quaker thought. What she didn’t anticipate was the community she would discover during the early days of the pandemic.

This article was written for the August 2020 Interfaith Issue of the Vital Friends eNewsletter.

What’s new and what opportunities are coming soon for friends in the FGC community? Find out in our updates for September 2019!