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Memphis Friends Meeting (Quaker)

10/03/2023: The meeting's web site is being transferred to a new web host. The new web site will be reachable at www.memphisfriendsmeeting.org. The QuakerCloud web host will cease operation 12/31/2023.

The best way to find out if silent, or unprogrammed, worship speaks to your condition is to experience it. Everyone is welcome! We affirm and acknowledge the wholeness of all people, including their gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

Meeting Times

11 am Sundays (Zoom and in-person)

Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)

7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)

Parking is available on Prescott.

All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.

Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.

What's New

The passage shared at the 6/4 meeting for worship was from Psalms 91:1:

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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A Friend wrote recently:

Good morning friends.
A foster dog is having puppies as we speak. I’m in awe and can’t sit still for an hour. But I feel the spirit of life and love.
Amazing how beautiful our world is.
Hold the momma and pups in the light.

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Mother's Day 2023
Mark G.

The diamond needs no mountain any more
To fix its crystal shape. Eons of heat and
Weight have done their work. So, heat of love,
Pressure of closeness, weight of grief
have molded me.

I am still as you made me, Mother,
and you are ten years gone.
Yet like a car engine cooling
I tick a bit as I contract.

Note: Mark's mother was a member of Memphis' first Quaker meeting in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Kelly selected the following passage for meeting for worship on 5/28:

Faith is what allows us to live the full awareness of our contradictions, an awareness that breeds the humility that is part and parcel of true faith.   

Parker Palmer

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At the May 28 meeting for learning, Susan led Memphis Friends through a presentation on the New England Yearly Meeting's process on Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness, and what that process may mean for Memphis Friends.

Here are some links for more information:

Slideshow

Recent QuakerSpeaker by Niyanu Spann:

More information:

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At the 5/21 meeting for worship our own Mr. Rogers, Kali, sang to us "It's You I Like" as a centering passage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_A2ebr048 

He also shared a passage from Maya Angelou:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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Worship with us!

Memphis Friends Meeting
3387 Walnut Grove Rd.
Memphis, TN 38111
United States
Meeting Times: 

11 am Sundays (Zoom and in-person)

Noon Monday through Saturday (Zoom only)

7 pm second Wednesday of the month (in-person)

Parking is available on Prescott.

All bathrooms are single-occupancy gender neutral.

Our email address memphisfriendsmeeting@gmail.com is checked daily.