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.

Meeting Calendar
Click here if you a Birmingham Friends Meeting member or attender
Contribute to Birmingham Friends Meeting online via Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Featured

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09/10/2017 - 10:00am
Everyone is invited to join us for worship and a picnic at Westtown on Sunday, September 10.
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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 08/10/2017 - 3:05pm

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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 05/04/2017 - 1:57pm
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After PYM annual sessions last summer, the clerk and General Secretary of our yearly meeting invited Friends to take time during the coming year to familiarize themselves with the proposed revision of Faith and Practice.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 03/22/2017 - 3:49pm

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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 02/02/2017 - 1:21pm

Every year, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting community chooses one book to read together.

The 2017 Book has been selected: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Faith & Practice Revision. 

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 12/01/2016 - 2:44pm

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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 12/19/2016 - 1:43pm
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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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 08/18/2016 - 2:11pm
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.
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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 07/25/2016 - 1:52pm

What's New

The following are links to commonly used documents. Please note that many of these items require that you sign in to your Quaker Cloud account to view them.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 02/15/2017 - 2:40pm

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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 02/02/2017 - 1:21pm
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02/25/2017 - 5:30pm

Birmingham's Worship & Ministry Committee hosts a pot-luck supper, screening of two segments of the film HUMAN, and discussion.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 02/01/2017 - 3:05pm
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01/29/2017 - 8:15am

You are invited to join us at Concord Quarterly Meeting on January 29

8:15 Sign-in
8:30-9:45 Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
10:00-11:00 Program
11:00-12:00 Meeting for Worship with Goshen Meeting

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 01/05/2017 - 2:22pm

Our Quaker Advices recommend that we “make provisions for the settlement of all outward affairs while in health, so that others may not be burdened and so that one may be freed to live more fully in the Truth”.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 01/04/2017 - 2:56pm

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.

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Posted by Birmingham Friends Meeting on 12/19/2016 - 1:43pm

Worship with us!

Contact Us
610-793-1734
1245 Birmingham Road
West Chester, PA 19382
United States
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Hours of Meeting
Sunday worship at 10:00 AM. Sunday school for school aged children and childcare is available for infants and toddlers.

Members & Attenders

Learn more!
Would you like to learn more about Quakerism?

Visit Philadelphia Yearly Meeting or  Birmingham's About Quakers and Worship page.

You can also visit our Links to other Quaker organizations page.

How to support Birmingham Friends Meeting financially
Make a donation to Birmingham Friends Meeting. 

Following the link will take you to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Contribution page where you can select Birmingham Friends Meeting in the Monthly or Quarterly Meeting Contribution section. 

Commonly Referenced Documents
If you're a member or attender of Birmingham Friends Meeting, and are registered for our website, you can click here to access commonly used documents.