Framingham Friends Meeting
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Framingham Friends Meeting (Quakers) invites you to join us for worship at 10am each Sunday. Wherever you are on your journey, whatever life experience you bring, all seekers are welcome to join us on our journey of Spirit and service. Children are very welcome here! Wheelchair accessible.
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About 16 members and attenders shared worship and a potluck Thanksgiving dinner at the meetinghouse on Thursday, November 22, 2018. Besides a bountiful array of side dishes, and a turkey roasted by Betty, there were hors d'oeuvres, desserts, a jigsaw puzzle, beautiful table settings, and lots of socializing. The cold, wet weather outside made the fire in the meeting room especially welcome. This is an annual event for many of us, where some years there are numerous friends and relatives as well as members and attenders. Sharing the cooking and the cleanup means no one is saddled with too
Our old windows were drafty, requiring the installation of plastic liners every winter and storm windows to be installed upstairs. Our new windows were delivered Thursday, Oct 25, and by Friday afternoon, all the windows on the back side of the newer addition were installed!
November 10-11, we will have our fall BBQ/Campout, with the BBQ starting around 5pm. All are welcome to attend; hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs and some sides provided. Additional sides are welcome but not required! Evening activities will include flashlight tag, marshmallow roasting, and singing around the campfire. Those who want to stay overnight can set up a tent in the field or spread out a pad and sleeping bag on the floor of the First Day School room. We will have breakfast on Sunday morning for those who stay overnight.
The Framingham Friends Meeting directory and Bulletin are available in Resources, but access is restricted to those with a "member/attender" account. Unfortunately, the "Sign Up for Online Meeting Access" button at the top of the home page does not work. To request an account, email the following information to [email protected]: first name, last name, email address, phone#, phone type (cell, home), street address, city, state, ZIP. The website administrator will approve access if you are a member or regular attender at Framingham Friends Meeting (it ma
An injury to an undocumented worker can spell disaster. The worker may not be able to pay for medical care or get worker's compensation, yet have little legal recourse. The worker's family may have no income while the worker is unable to work. Framingham Friends Meeting has set up a fund to contribute to expenses for injured workers through the Metrowest Worker Center in Framingham (http://www.mwc-casa.org/), If you would like to contribute to the fund, you can mail a check to Framingham Friends Meeting Treasurer, 841 Edmands Rd, Framingham, MA 0170
Jean’s Schnell is a member of Framingham Friends Meeting and an emerging artist in fine art photography. Her Quaker meetinghouse photographs have been featured in the Friends Journal. They accompanied her article called “Framing the Light: Quaker Meetinghouses as space and Spirit.”
The First Day School will be visiting Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (DMM) starting at 10 am on June 10. DMM is a "programmed" Quaker meeting, with a pastor and a worship service similar to a tradition Protestant service. Some members of DMM will mee
We held our annual Christmas Celebration on Sunday December 17 after Meeting for Worship. We heard about the American Friends Service Committee, and why we decorate our Christmas tree with donations to AFSC. The First Day School put wrapped boxes representing "simple gifts" under the Christmas tree - things like helping a neighbor shovel snow - and other adults in the meeting added their own simple gifts. We heard "The Giveaway, a Christmas Story". Our talented musicians sang and played: the Friendly Singers, "Christmas in the Trenches" (about informal truces between opposing forces on
Moses Morenga has been a pastor in a "programmed" Quaker meeting (worship more like a typical Protestant service) in Kenya for the past 25 years, holding leadership positions in the yearly meeting as well as in his local and quarterly meetings. He graduated from Friends Theological College and Covenant Bible College. He was active in organizing the Peace Walk Caravan around his town of Mumias, which included distribution of food, clothes, and wheelchairs to the physically challenged. He is married and has 4 daughters; his family is also supporting one orphan.
The FFM First Day School obtained a rainbow PEACE flag from Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick, and attached it to the meetinghouse sign along Edmands Rd. This replaces the faded rainbow PACE flag that hung for a long time on a wall inside. The First Day School had a lesson on "Discernment" practicing what to do about some of the pictures and posters that were taken off the walls for painting, and one of our young ones suggested we should not only replace the faded flag, but fly it visibly outside the meetinghouse. Job accomplished on June 11, 2017!
Framingham Friends Meeting will hold a memorial meeting to celebrate the life of our friend and long-time member, John Blanchard on Saturday, May 20 at 2 PM. Interment of his ashes will be private with his family at 1 PM in the circle garde
A memorial meeting to celebrate the life of our faithful member, Paul Gardescu, was held on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Framingham Friends Meeting. The memorial meeting for worship began at 2:00 p.m.
9 members and attenders at Framingham Friends meeting, 3 additional attenders, and 3 facilitators participated in an Alternatives to Violence Program workshop at the meetinghouse March 17-19. Rather than soporific presentations and discussions, we enjoyed a lively and engaging series of exercises and games, teaching us to listen, to build community, and to be more positive and adaptable in our responses to conflict. In the process, we got to know and appreciate ourselves and each other in new ways. The skills and understandings we developed are directly applicable to responding effective
Meeting Times
Worship Sundays at 10am. Monthly business meeting at 11:30am on the third Sunday of the month (Sept - June).
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About 16 members and attenders shared worship and a potluck Thanksgiving dinner at the meetinghouse on Thursday, November 22, 2018. Besides a bountiful array of side dishes, and a turkey roasted by Betty, there were hors d'oeuvres, desserts, a jigsaw puzzle, beautiful table settings, and lots of socializing. The cold, wet weather outside made the fire in the meeting room especially welcome. This is an annual event for many of us, where some years there are numerous friends and relatives as well as members and attenders. Sharing the cooking and the cleanup means no one is saddled with too
Our old windows were drafty, requiring the installation of plastic liners every winter and storm windows to be installed upstairs. Our new windows were delivered Thursday, Oct 25, and by Friday afternoon, all the windows on the back side of the newer addition were installed!
November 10-11, we will have our fall BBQ/Campout, with the BBQ starting around 5pm. All are welcome to attend; hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs and some sides provided. Additional sides are welcome but not required! Evening activities will include flashlight tag, marshmallow roasting, and singing around the campfire. Those who want to stay overnight can set up a tent in the field or spread out a pad and sleeping bag on the floor of the First Day School room. We will have breakfast on Sunday morning for those who stay overnight.
An injury to an undocumented worker can spell disaster. The worker may not be able to pay for medical care or get worker's compensation, yet have little legal recourse. The worker's family may have no income while the worker is unable to work. Framingham Friends Meeting has set up a fund to contribute to expenses for injured workers through the Metrowest Worker Center in Framingham (http://www.mwc-casa.org/), If you would like to contribute to the fund, you can mail a check to Framingham Friends Meeting Treasurer, 841 Edmands Rd, Framingham, MA 0170
The American Friends Service Committee is doing spirit-led, courageous work to promote Sanctuary everywhere. Open the link to read more.
The Framingham Friends Meeting First Day School (children's program) is growing, with 11 children now on our list (although not all attend each week). Upcoming events:
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Worship Sundays at 10am. Monthly business meeting at 11:30am on the third Sunday of the month (Sept - June).
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