On a beautiful day in July, Solebury Friends Meeting hosted a group of kids from the Summer of Freedom camp, run by the Ujima Friends Peace Center, which is located in North Philly.

click - click - soy - rice … This chant helped the assembly line move smoothly and efficiently, as volunteers from Plumstead Friends Meeting filled bags with rice, powdered soy, dehydrated vegetables and vitamin powder.

Rick Dow, Lehigh Valley Meeting, writes about his experience participating in the 2022 Bethlehem Interfaith Group’s Faith Crawl.

Bucks Quarter Quakers, under the care of Doylestown Meeting, met virtually on May 15th for their Spring Quarterly Meeting.

600 years ago, I would have been burned at the stake. I see visions and hear voices. In artist terms, I see a piece in my mind’s eye.

This spring, the Quakers at Yardley Friends Meeting are building a labyrinth and a set of raised bed gardens on the grounds of the meetinghouse to create a space for meditation, and to provide a growing site for medicinal herbs.

Inge Snipes died peacefully on the evening of April 6, 2022 at Kendal at Longwood in Kennett Square, PA. She was 94 years old. She had an active and full life guided by Quaker principles and her passions for social justice, environmental concerns, the arts, and her love for her family.

I worked with FCNL from 2006 to 2010, and I found in the slogan “War is Not the Answer” a powerful double meaning. It was an expression of Quaker faith, most famously exemplified by the declaration of members of the founding generation of Friends to King Charles II of England in 1660

Elizabeth Irene Hurst, a member of Newtown Meeting, passed away March 2nd, 2022, of ovarian cancer, surrounded by her beloved family: her husband Ross Blair and her very special adult children, Baxter and Dixie'drea. Elizabeth responded to each health setback with courage and determination.

Fiona Simek is one of the youngest attenders from Doylestown Meeting to request membership. Last September she wrote her letter, had a Clearness Committee, and in October 2021 she was welcomed into membership. She is 13.

Rick Dow, a member of Lehigh Valley Friends Meeting in Bethlehem, PA, relates his experience of being “homeless” for 12 hours during the Lehigh Conference of Churches “One Night Without a Home.”

Members of Southampton Meeting and Newtown Meeting have aligned with the Bucks County chapter of POWER Interfaith in a nonviolent direct action and advocacy campaign for education justice in our state.

Bucks Quarter and Friends Village have always had a special relationship. Each holiday season, Friends from around the Quarter traditionally come to the Styer Campus, hymnals in hand, to lead the residents in singing Christmas carols.

Bristol Friends gathered for worship on the fourth Sunday in November, as we do every month, but for once the meetinghouse was full, so full there were barely enough places for Friends to sit. The meetinghouse was full, not with people

On Saturday, October 2nd Quakertown Friends Meeting held a dedication ceremony for an historic marker that honors the Nixon Cemetery, a burial site for non-Quakers that the Meeting offered to the community starting in 1764.

Irene P. Fisher was born in High Point, North Carolina. Her family attended Springfield Friends Meeting. Irene and her younger sister, Ruby, were the first in their family to graduate from college. Throughout her whole life, Irene promoted the value of higher education to all.

When Lehigh Valley Meeting shifted from in-person to virtual Meeting for Worship, we happily welcomed distant Friends and we realized that virtual worship was not only keeping our meeting community together, it was expanding our reach.

This summer was my first time going to Camp Onas, being away from home and my parents. For two weeks I lived in bunk Cuttalasa with four other boys

On Sunday, August 15th, Bucks Quarter Friends once again gathered virtually on a picture-perfect summer’s day for enlightening programming, fellowship and business. 

At their July business meeting Middletown Meeting Friends approved a donation of $2,500 to support the Friends Peace Team’s Rwanda Book Project.