Friends Organizations

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), is a worldwide service organization founded and supported by Friends.  http://www.afsc.org

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), is a Quaker lobby group in Washington, D.C. The FCNL provides information in support of issues such as religious liberty, Native American self-determination and treaty rights, documentation of defence expenditures, and many other subjects that have been idenified as priorities by Monthly Meetings and individual Friends that support the work of the FCNL.  http://www.fcnl.org/ 

Friends General Conference, an association of 14 regional yearly meetings, regional groups and individuals meetings primarily in the United States and Canada founded in 1900. Our meeting is affiliated with FGC through our affiliation with Piedmont Friends Fellowship. http://www.fgcquakers.org/

Genealogical information can be researched at http://www.qfhs.mcmail.com/.

GI Rights Hotline: The hotline assists servicepeople who are seeking discharge and want to know their rights and other factual informaiton regarding termination of military service. The GI Rights hotline number is (877) 447-4487.  http://www.girightshotline.org/

Quaker.org compiles diverse resources about the Religious Society of Friends. http://www.quaker.org/

Quakerinfo.com also compiles information about Quakers including recent news articles.  http://www.quakerinfo.com

Quaker House, this Fayetteville-based non-profit offers Friends witness regarding military service and recruitment. Draft counceling services, including the GI Rights Hotline are available for those who are conscienciously opposed to military service. Quaker House is supported by Raleigh Friends Meeting.   Their e-mail address is quakerhse@aol.com. http://www.quakerhouse.org/.

Find a Meeting

Quaker.org provides links or contact information for international yearly meetings and individual meetings. http://www.quaker.org/meetings.html#YEARLY, http://www.quaker.org/meetings.html, and http://www.quaker.org/meetings.html#OTHER

QuakerFinder.org is a handy way to search for U.S. Quaker meetings by city.  QuakerFinder.org 

Quakerinfo.com provides information about how to locate Quaker meetings and their differences.  http://www.quakerinfo.com/quakfind.shtml

If you were unsuccessful locating a Friends Meeting in QuakerFinder.org, the excellent article at http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/quakerism/42798 may help.

Children and Youth Resources

Quaker Camps lists Quaker-based summer camps throughout the nation. http://quakercamps.org/Name.html

Quaker schools is Wikipedia's list of Friends School. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_schools#United_Stateshttp://

North Carolina Resources

Carolina Friends School, a K-12 Quaker school located in Durham County and supported by Chapel Hill and Durham meetings.  http://www.cfsnc.org/

Guilford College, North Carolina's Quaker-based college opened in 1837 as Greensboro's New Garden Boarding School.  http://www.guilford.edu/

Mendenhall Plantation, a living history museusm of an early 19th century house and outbuildings originally owned by the Jamestown Quaker Mendenhall family. http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/

North Carolina Yearly Meeting-Conservative (NCYM-C), an organization of unprogrammed (unpastored) meetings of the Religous Society of Friends in North Carolina http://ncymc.org/

North Carolina Yearly Meeting-Friends United Meeting (NCYM-FUM), an organization of churches and meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in North Carolina, Virginia, and Miami.  It is affiliated with Friends United Meeting.  These meetings are primarily programmed with paid pastors.  Raleigh Friends left NCYM-FUM in 1984.  http://www.ncym-fum.org/

Piedmont Friends Fellowship (PFF),  a collective of North Carolina Quaker meetings which gathers for worship, fellowship, and sharing of messages as illuminated by the Inward Light in the spirit of Friends' quarterly meetings. Raleigh Friends Meeting helped found PFF in 1968 out of a need for meetings to come together and to address issues and concerns in a wider Quaker forum.  http://rtpnet.org/friends/PFF.htm

Quaker House, a Fayetteville-based non-profit offers Friends witness regarding military service and recruitment. Draft counceling services, including the GI Rights Hotline are available for those who are conscienciously opposed to military service. Quaker House is supported by Raleigh Friends Meeting.   Their e-mail address is quakerhse@aol.com. http://www.quakerhouse.org/ 

Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Associations (SAYMA), a FGC-affiliated yearly meeting covering parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. http://sayma.org/top/

Sword of Peace, the Snow Camp-based outdoor drama focused on North Carolina Quaker history runs during the summer months http://www.snowcampdrama.com/