Birmingham Friends Meeting
Welcome to Birmingham Friends Meeting
We are an active, caring community of families and individuals of all ages who come together to worship in the tradition of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Each Sunday we gather in Meeting for Worship to listen for the still, small voice of God stirring within us. Meeting for Worship includes our children for the first 30 minutes after which they attend First Day (Sunday) School. Nursery care is available for younger children.
We are guided in our lives by our Quaker Testimonies on Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship. We welcome those who wish to join us.
Birmingham Friends Meeting: What Newcomers Appreciate About Us
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Featured
Come to our annual Harvest Buffet dinner on Saturday, November 9, 4:30pm-7:30pm. We're featuring fresh & local food, including pasture-raised turkey, organic vegetables, vegan and gluten free options.
The topics for the First Day School lessons of Fall 2019 are as follows:
September 1: Quakerism: Elizabeth Fry
September 8: Quakerism: Elizabeth Fry
September 15: Picnic at Westtown School
Birmingham Meeting's library is being cateloged online at https: www.librarything.com
View the catalog at www.librarything.com/catalog/BirmFrdsMtg. You can see what books are available and where to find them on the shelves. Search by title or author or subject. Investigate book reviews, some of which are written by our own members. Ask how your review can be added to the catalog.
The following is from an opening exercise given at Birmingham Meeting by West Chester Friends School's Head Brian Fahey.
An excerpt:
Continuing Revelation
Birmingham Friends Meeting: What newcomers appreciate about us
Quakerism originates in Christianity.
Approved by Birmingham Monthly Meeting, March 4, 2018
Approved by Concord Quarterly Meeting, April 22, 2018
In 2017, 122 United Nations member states wrote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, designed as a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. The Birmingham Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) strongly requests the United States to sign and ratify this Treaty.
Birmingham Meeting member Julie Senko has written a review of one of our library books!
You can read her review of The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by Mary Rose O'Reilly on our library's website.
Click here to see information about the book and read Julie's review.
Birmingham member Tod Baseden has written an article about the life and times of Elizatbeth Webb (1663-1726), one of the founders of Birmingham Meeting.
Click here to view the article.
Oral History Videos
During the summer of 2006 our First Day School students videotaped interviews with eleven older Meeting members. Those Friends spoke about their lives and the importance of Quakerism to them.
Birmingham Friends Meeting, through the leadership efforts of members Ted Brinton and Ruth Young, has raised money to buy mine detectors for use in developing countries, where warfare has rendered land unusable because of buried mines.
Meeting Times
Hours of Meeting
Sunday worship at 10:00 AM. Sunday school for school aged children and childcare is available for infants and toddlers.
What's New
Click on the links below for Birmingham's Manual of Procedures and Bylaws.
The Cadbury Library of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has given Birmingham Friends Meeting a selection of books to add to our holdings from their duplicate collection. Please see these new titles on the library shelf and consider checking them out! Your review of these, or any book, is always welcome and will be added to our online library catalog at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/BirmFrdsMtg
Check these out!
All the books in our library are cataloged online at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/BirmFrdsMtg
Bibles:
Funk, Robert W., The Five Gospels, What Did Jesus Really Say?, 1996, Gift Book
By & About Quakers:
FCNL, The World We Seek, 2013, Gift of Haverford Monthly Meeting
Approved by Birmingham Monthly Meeting, March 4, 2018
Approved by Concord Quarterly Meeting, April 22, 2018
In 2017, 122 United Nations member states wrote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, designed as a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. The Birmingham Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) strongly requests the United States to sign and ratify this Treaty.
If you would like to borrow Birmingham property (such as tables and chairs), please fill out the application below.
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