Resources

Your Guide to Living the Quaker Way

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
of the Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends is a community of faith based on an experience of a transforming power named many ways: the Inner Light, the Spirit of Christ, the Guide, the Living God, the Divine Presence.
Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky
Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky

Bucks Quarterly Meeting

That there is that of God in everyone and each person is capable of a direct and unmediated experience of the Spirit. This inward experience of God transforms us and leads us into outward expressions of faithful living, witness and action. Our understanding and experience of God’s truth is continuing and ongoing and is nurtured and enlarged by being in community with one another.

Friends Journal

Friends Journal is published by Friends Publishing Corporation. Our mission is to communicate Quaker experience in order to connect and deepen spiritual lives.

Friends Journal’s staff work from all over the US, with a home office in Friends Center in Center City Philadelphia. Personnel include a staff of eleven and the assistance of volunteers and interns. Our readership is located in all 50 states and 43 foreign countries. The magazine is published in print 11 times per year and continuously online, supported by the voluntary contributions of our members.

Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky
Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky

Friends General Conference

Founded in 1900, Friends General Conference is an association of local and regional Quaker organizations primarily in the United States and Canada. FGC is a volunteer led association. Our focus areas and related projects are determined by volunteers representing our affiliates and consistent with FGC’s organizational Minute of Purpose and Vision Statement. What was once an association of seven yearly meetings holding a biennial “general conference” is now a coalition of sixteen yearly meetings and twelve directly affiliated monthly meetings.

Quaker Speak

Sharing Quaker messages through our magazine, videos, and podcasts.

Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky
Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky

Mercer Street Friends

Mercer Street Friends was founded in 1958 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who were witnessing the migration to Pennsylvania suburbs and recent flood affecting the economics of the Trenton community and its impact on residents. The founding volunteers responded by renovating a 100-year old meeting house no longer used for worship, located on Mercer Street in the Mill Hill section of Trenton, and turning the facility into a community center for neighbors in need.

Camp ONAS

Building a community of people who are joyful, confident, kind, and engaged.
Exterior view of Solebury Friends Meeting porch roof and sky