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Meeting For Worship

Community

Quakerism is an experiential faith. We come together to learn how to put into daily practice our tenets of:

    • simplicity & stewardship
    • peacefulness
    • integrity
    • community
    • equality

Each person’s path may be different but the shared journey deepens and enriches our lives. We welcome everyone to our fellowship.

We provide opportunities for both children and adults for religious education and spiritual growth including:

    • Sunday classes and forums
    • Bible Study
    • in-depth exploration of spiritual paths

We also offer service activities, a meditative retreat center in Amelia County, shared meals, and opportunities for friendship and community building.

Social Action

Quakers have been on the leading edge of peacemaking and human rights issues for hundreds of years. Our roots in prison reform, anti-slavery, women’s suffrage, and peacemaking undergird today’s missions, among them:

    • reforming criminal justice
    • finding alternatives to violence
    • caring for the earth
    • working toward equity in our own neighborhood and around the world

We seek not only to understand the issues but also to take considered, concrete action to bring about change.

Some of our organizations putting Quaker Values to work:

Recent News and Announcements

Memorial Minute for Bette Gilchrist

By Margaret Edds Bette Diebold Gilchrist, a plain-spoken Midwesterner by birth, an intellectually curious biologist by profession, and a lifelong seeker after truth, died on May 5, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia. A member of the Richmond Friends Meeting since January 20,...

RFM Minute on Race and Racism

(Final version, revised 28 January 2024) As Friends, our belief that there is “that of God” in everyone grounds our practice of upholding the worth of each human being. Each person is guided by an Inward Teacher toward truth; each has the capacity to experience and be...

AFSC Offers Meeting for Worship with Attention to Peace in Palestine-Israel

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) offers an online meeting for worship withattention to peace in Palestine-Israel every Thursday at 5:30 pm ET. To receive a Zoom link, signup here:...

Hearing Assistance during Worship

Ministry & Worship Committee wants to let you know that if you have trouble hearing messages during Meeting for Worship, you are welcome to pick up a hearing assistance device at the front door. They are easy to use. The Greeter can help you put it on.

Assistance with Transportation to Meeting For Worship

DO YOU NEED HELP WITH TRANSPORTATION TO MEETING FOR WORSHIP? Care & Counsel is offering a trial program to reimburse you for the cost of one Uber or Lyft ride to or from Meeting for Worship once a month. You simply forward the receipt from your Uber/Lyft ride to...

Swing Bridge book – how to get it!

We enjoyed giving an ASE presentation last month about the spiritual process of creating Swing Bridge. As a follow-up, you can find more information about the book on: bronwynhughes.com The Swing Bridge book is available several ways now: • from Amazon...

Scholarships for BYM

Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Annuals Sessions is fast approaching.  Adult Spiritual Education (ASE) has scholarships, up to $500.  If receiving this scholarship facilitates your attendance, please apply by send a written request with your name, the name of...

Help needed for Afghan Emigres

We have been contacted by a member of Morningside Meeting in NYC about two recent emigres from Afghanistan. They wish to increase their contact with other Richmonders. While in Afghanistan they worked in different capacities for climate and human rights. After the...

The Peace Testimony Reading Group

The Peace Testimony Reading Group had their first session on Saturday, June 17th. There will be three more sessions, each on the third Saturday at 9:30 am, specifically, July 15th, August 19th and Sept 16th. If you wish to join and have not signed up, please contact...

A Query from the RFM Ad Hoc Committee on Race and Racism

What are we at Richmond Friends Meeting led to do around race and racism? At our business meeting in December of 2022, we approved the formation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Race and Racism. The committee’s charge is to 1) develop and engage the Meeting in an inclusive...

Outreach From Baltimore Yearly Meeting: Starting Dialogues and Creating
New Relationships

BYM’s committees need new members every year. This year, we especially need new members to bring energy and new perspectives to:● Program Committee – to plan and carry out all aspects of our annual session● Stewardship & Finance – for faithfully translating our...

Lectio Divina?

Have you wondered about lectio divina and how it’s done at RFM ? Basically, it’s contemplation - a chance to experience a reading of a passage, meditating upon your chosen word or phrase from the passage, feeling what comes up for you personally in your life as the...

Circles RVA Needs Allies

Have you ever wondered if you could do something to help those in poverty that would help get them out and to thrive? You can make a difference. Circles RVA does this one person at a time in a small group, but over time those small groups of one person with allies...

Peace Testimony Reading Group

There will be a four week reading group about our Peace Testimony. On  Friday June 2nd,  at 7:30pm, we will hold an organizational session, via Zoom  We will discuss format, readings and most importantly best days and times. (This is not considered...

Prayer Group for Healing at RFM

There is a Prayer for Healing Group at RFM, and its purpose is to support our community with intentional prayers, especially in times of need and loss. We are about fifteen members sending out prayers every two weeks to those who have requested them. The prayer group...

New Friendly Eight: Tai Chi

Roni Kingsley will offer Sun Style Tai Chi for Beginners starting May 22nd at the Meeting House. This is a set of movements put together that are safe and modifiable for people with arthritis. Therefore, Dr Paul Lam, who designed these movements, gave it the name Tai...

Scholarships for Quaker gatherings

Adult Spiritual Education (ASE) has funds available to those attending Quaker gatherings. If you plan to attend Friends General Conference (FGC) Gathering and/or Baltimore Yearly Meeting Annual Session and you require financial aid, contact a member of ASE (Beth...

Quaker Social Justice Organizations

There is so much happening in the realm of social justice, environment and world emergencies.keep informed and act according to our Quaker values? The following organizations can help you take timely steps to address various issues according to our Quaker testimonies....