Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)
The best way to find out if silent, or unprogrammed, worship speaks to your condition is to experience it. Everyone is welcome! It is our intent to affirm and acknowledge the wholeness of all people, including their gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
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Unprogrammed worship is silent worship. We enter the meeting room silently. Our first task when worship begins is to center down, to still the clamor of the world, to turn our attention to the inner voice.
On March 15, 2020, Memphis Friends Meeting began implementing the CDC's recommendation to practice social distancing.
At the November business meeting, Khyber was approved as the new clerk for 2021 and 2022. We look forward to experiencing the clerking of a certified laughing coach! For the full slate of approvals, see the November business meeting minutes (log-in required, filed under Resources/Minutes).
Here is a description of the clerk role, written by a former clerk, Carol, for future clerks:
Memphis Friends, are you logging in to the web site to see all information? If not, you are missing out on resources like:
The Communications Committee is in the process of building an online version of the card catalog.
We're building a video "newsletter" of our First Day School. For the privacy of our children, only the email addresses that are on the MFM mailing list can access the newsletter.
Meeting Times
11 am Sundays (currently online during the Delta Variant surge, with plans to return to hybrid worship in the future)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
10:30 am Saturdays (in the meetinghouse backyard)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
What's New
Thirteen gathered at the corner of Walnut Grove and Prescott on September 8 to add Memphis Friends' voices to those calling for release of Pervis Payne, who has been on death row for over three decades and who has maintained his innocence throughout that time. More information about the case can be found on the Innocence Project's web site, www.pervispayne.org
Join us for backyard worship from 10:30 to 11:00 on Saturdays when the weather is inviting. Please wear a mask if you are able and plan to seat in one of two socially distanced circles.
UPDATE: Because of the uptick in Delta variant cases in Shelby County, until further notice there will only be on-line worship.
UPDATE: Because of the uptick in Delta variant cases in Shelby County, until further notice there will only be on-line worship.
Join us for backyard worship from 10:30 to 11:00 on Saturdays when the weather is inviting. Please wear a mask if you are able and plan to sit in one of two socially distanced circles.
Quaker Earthcare Witness holds their annual fall meetings in October. The opening session begins on Thursday the 21st at 2 p.m. CDT and the closing session starts at 4 p.m. on Sunday the 24th. Registration fee: $75.
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11 am Sundays (currently online during the Delta Variant surge, with plans to return to hybrid worship in the future)
Noon Monday through Saturday (currently online)
10:30 am Saturdays (in the meetinghouse backyard)
Parking is available on Prescott.
All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.
Our email address [email protected] is checked daily.
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