West Knoxville Friends Meeting
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After we receive your request, we will contact you.
Welcome to our community of Friends. To find out more about what to expect at a Quaker Meeting, navigate around our site and check out the resources page.
Check out the different areas of our site to see what we've been doing lately and what we believe is important. If an activity speaks to your soul, you are welcome to get involved or follow silently. We are open to new experiences, so make recommendations on how we can be more welcoming by providing what interests you.
Things we take note of and reflect upon:
- Caring for humanity - seeing that of God in everyone. We use our spiritual practices of silent worship and worship sharing to reflect on how to navigate our differences and embrace others. We take actions to help those in our community and beyond who need support.
- Understanding racial justice - our historical role and our current response. We explore this topic through discussion groups, involvement in the community, extrernal sources of information and activities, and interactions with our Yearly Meeting (SAYMA) and Friends General Conference (FGC).
- Understanding the earth - our responsibility to be stewards. We explore ways we can heal the damages humans cause and avoid future destruction including advocating for reduced materialism, recycling, awareness of our role in climate change, and advocating against the use of nuclear weapons.
About us
The West Knoxville Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is a Quaker presence in East Tennesse. We are part of the Southern Appalacian Yearly Meeting and Association (SAYMA), affiliated with Friends General Conference (FGC). We invite you to join us in silent worship according to the traditional practice of Friends. As an unprogrammed meeting, worship begins in reverent silence. There is no ritual, and we have no minister, but we are united in a conscious effort to know God, to understand divine purposes, and to bring ourselves into harmony with Spirit in our daily lives.
See our meeting times, calendar & events, or announcements sections to get involved.
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It is our understanding that religious knowledge, like the appreciation of beauty, is not attained by a logical process of thought but by experience and feeling.
Our foundation; a short historical description of Quaker origins and the establishment of our Monthly Meeting.
Friends have no creed, but when asked about our beliefs, we often point to Quaker Testimonies.
Supporting social issues locally and globally.
#LoveThyNeighbor - no exceptions
As a spiritual community without designated ministers, we are called on to minister to each other. The role of Ministry and Nurture is to nurture the spiritual life of the Quaker community, to care for meeting for worship, to encourage Friends to
This is a place to find links and resources Friends recommend to further our understanding of the complicated issues related to racial justice.
Meeting Times
Meeting for Worship Sundays
10:30-11:30am worship 11:30am-Noon Introduction and Announcements
First Day School for children Sundays 10:30-11:30am.
Life of the Meeting & Social Time
Sundays 10:00-10:25am. On the Sunday of Meeting for Business, this time will be used for spiritual fellowship through worship sharing or discussion on a query.
Meeting for Worship with
Attention to Business
1st Sunday of the month at 12:15pm.
Potluck Lunch!
3rd Sunday of the month after
Meeting for Worship
Knox Mindfulness Meditation
Sundays 4:00-5:30
What's New
Dear Friends,
On many First Days we have a second hour after our time in Silent Worship. January 16, 2022 our second hour was spent in gratitude and holding Friends in the Light. The joys, challenges, gratitude, and requests for healing needs were especially meaningful to Friends as our time for celebrating and sharing can be pushed aside in our busy secular and spiritual lives.
Quakers gather for worship in silent expectation as a memorial to a Friend who has died. We believe that in the silence all people can experience God directly. Our memorial meeting has no pastor, no altar, no sermon, and no choir.
Pendle Hill offers a Morning Meditation Online for Worship in the Barn
During January and February of 2021 we will be exploring basic concepts embraced by Quakers. The participants guide is available from the Friends General Conference Bookstore as a downloadable PDF document. For more information about joining this group please use the "contacct us" button on the homepage or contact Anne Williams.
This is a place to find links and resources Friends recommend to further our understanding of the complicated issues related to racial justice.
As a spiritual community without designated ministers, we are called on to minister to each other. The role of Ministry and Nurture is to nurture the spiritual life of the Quaker community, to care for meeting for worship, to encourage Friends to
Worship with us!
Meeting for Worship Sundays
10:30-11:30am worship 11:30am-Noon Introduction and Announcements
First Day School for children Sundays 10:30-11:30am.
Life of the Meeting & Social Time
Sundays 10:00-10:25am. On the Sunday of Meeting for Business, this time will be used for spiritual fellowship through worship sharing or discussion on a query.
Meeting for Worship with
Attention to Business
1st Sunday of the month at 12:15pm.
Potluck Lunch!
3rd Sunday of the month after
Meeting for Worship
Knox Mindfulness Meditation
Sundays 4:00-5:30
Worship Opportunities
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