Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street Quakers)
Invitation to Worship
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR CORONAVIRUS SITUATION, updated 11/19:
MEETING FOR WORSHIP:
With the current spike in covid cases and after consulting other members of the W&M committee as well as the clerk and alternate clerk of MMFP, it has been decided that in person MFW at the meetinghouse on alternate Sundays will be suspended, effective immediately at least until January 2021, when the situation will be reevaluated. We continue to meet together on-line.
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We hold meeting for worship twice a week, once on Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. and the other on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Both roughly last about 45 minutes (we do a full hour on Sundays when we are in person). We typically send out the links to join the virtual meeting the day before and it's hosted through zoom. If you don't have zoom downloaded on your computer, you can click go to https://zoom.us/download.
With the current spike in covid cases and after consulting other members of the W&M committee as well as the clerk and alternate clerk of MMFP, it has been decided that in person MFW at the meetinghouse on alternate Sundays will be suspended, effective immediately at least until January 2021, when the situation will be reevaluated.
Per MMFP's Meeting for Worship for Business held the sixth month, 21st day, 2020, these guidelines were distributed by Steve Lewis, clerk of the Worship and Ministry committee, in the finalized form via the Arch mailing list on 7/4/20 1:56:04 PM.
Meeting Times
First Day (Sunday) 10:30a.m., parking
Mid-week meeting: Wednesday evenings, 6:00p.m. - 6:45p.m.
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We hold meeting for worship twice a week, once on Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. and the other on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Both roughly last about 45 minutes (we do a full hour on Sundays when we are in person). We typically send out the links to join the virtual meeting the day before and it's hosted through zoom. If you don't have zoom downloaded on your computer, you can click go to https://zoom.us/download.
In November 2020, Friends united in restarting the adult education committee.
With the current spike in covid cases and after consulting other members of the W&M committee as well as the clerk and alternate clerk of MMFP, it has been decided that in person MFW at the meetinghouse on alternate Sundays will be suspended, effective immediately at least until January 2021, when the situation will be reevaluated.
Per MMFP's Meeting for Worship for Business held the sixth month, 21st day, 2020, these guidelines were distributed by Steve Lewis, clerk of the Worship and Ministry committee, in the finalized form via the Arch mailing list on 7/4/20 1:56:04 PM.
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First Day (Sunday) 10:30a.m., parking
Mid-week meeting: Wednesday evenings, 6:00p.m. - 6:45p.m.
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