Meeting for Worship, Sundays 10am:

Please join us a few minutes in advance of 10:00am Sundays at the Gaia House Interfaith Center at 913 S. Illinois Avenue, Carbondale IL 62901. Our worship format is silent seeking, prayer and/or meditation, occasionally blessed with messages of vocal ministry that we might share with one another. For second hour at 11:00am, we socialize, while on 1st Sunday we share a pot luck and the 4th Sunday we also conduct monthly business in a worshipful format. Minutes from meetings for worship with attention to business are posted in Resources > Minutes.

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We are an open, welcoming and affirming community of seekers. Our weekly, hour-long worship format is to wait in expectant silence, listening for the prompts of the Inward Teacher. Sometimes this guidance inspires us to certain action in our lives, and sometimes the guidance takes the form of a spoken "message" which is shared from the silence as ministry to one another. We engage in this mutual ministry without a pastor or sermon; instead, we manage the business of the meeting by rotating in service as Clerk, Recording Clerk, Treasurer, committee members, and coordinators.

We use Quaker traditions, practices and disciplines to nurture our transformation, which grounds our individual witness in the world, and inspires our meeting.

We share our gifts both individually and collectively with our local community as well as with wider networks of seekers.

We take joy in including and engaging our children and youth in our ongoing exploration of values, history and relationships.

Local Friends in the media!

Despite rumors to the contrary, we really do SING! This group arrangement was inspired by our dearly departed Friend, Maurine Pyle. It still makes us smile.

One local Friend was interviewed about local and historical Quakerism by Bob DeFilippis for his WDBX Radio show Think Again, Please! Listen here.

The Carbondale Public Library session of our Michael Batinski Speaker Series is available on YouTube.

Michael was also interviewed about his book on WDBX Radio. Listen here.

Speaker Series - April 12-15, 2023 The hidden side of Jackson County history -- see background links on our Events page!