One of the key takeaways from the January PYM Governance and Stewardship Thread Gathering on Property and Burial Grounds was that Friends would like a way to connect with each other as issues arise in their meetings. Bucks Quarter has already forged these connections through our Property Google Group.

Ted Taylor, new clerk of Yardley Friends Meeting, shares some thoughts he had during meeting for worship as he focused on the fire blazing in the fireplace.

Bristol Meeting’s new clerk, Alisa Myles, arrived with lots of ideas and enthusiasm. Passionate about refugee resettlement, her first outreach project involves teaching Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) how to cook.

Last year, as meetinghouses re-opened, Friends began experimenting with a hybrid format and Bucks Quarter did as well. But the question arose about what to do when the Quarterly Meeting host has neither the technology nor the tech support for a hybrid meeting?

On a beautiful autumn afternoon, Newtown Monthly Meeting hosted an Interfaith Service attended by approximately 70 people from almost 20 different denominations.

Bucks Quarter Friends gathered with other PYM Quakers for Fall Continuing Sessions at the historic Arch Street Meetinghouse on November 11.

The rain held off, allowing Yardley Friends to have a successful 67th Annual Flea Market on September 9th.

The weather was ideal for Bucks Quarter Friends to gather at the historic Plumstead Meetinghouse on August 20th for our third Quarterly Meeting of 2023.

Southampton Friends Meeting may be small, but they engaged in some pretty big outreach at their table at Southampton Days over the Fourth of July holiday.

Over 15 years ago, the Inreach/Outreach Committee at Newtown Friends Meeting had an idea for an intergenerational activity. They would make a quilt composed of the hands of all the meeting members, young and old.

Bucks Quarter Outreach Committee decided it was time to get reacquainted with one another. So on Saturday, June 17th, under sunny skies with temperatures in the 70s, Friends from around the Quarter gathered for a “Friends are Fun” picnic.

This past spring, Jeff Marshall, historic preservationist, and past president of the Heritage Conservancy visited the Plumstead Meetinghouse to assess its construction and to answer questions from those on hand.

Lehigh Valley Friend Rick Dow writes about his visit to the United Kingdom and his encounters with British Friends and Quaker history.

Follow the trials and tribulations of Bucks Quarterly Meeting as we try our hand at holding our second hybrid Quarterly Meeting of 2023.

Newtown Meeting members Anna and Charles Smith’s only son, Morell, enlisted in World War I and was soon listed as Missing in Action.

One of my responsibilities as Bucks Quarter Coordinator is to visit all fourteen monthly meetings in the Quarter on a regular basis. It is the best part of my job, because

Bucks Quarterly Meeting historically holds an annual Quakerism in a Nutshell (QIN) workshop – that is, until 2020, when the scheduled workshop had to be cancelled due to the pandemic shutdown. Fast forward to 2023…

For the first time since February 2020, Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends met in person, ironically, both times at Middletown Friends Meeting. The difference between 2023 and 2020 was

Pat Mervine’s presentation about her book Boone Farm: Its People and Place in Middletown History is now available on the Bucks Quarter YouTube channel.

It was a nippy 42° in the meetinghouse when Dafydd Jones, clerk of Plumstead Meeting, came to start the fire in the wood burning stove last Sunday morning. By the time Friends began to arrive, the temperature had risen about 10 degrees