Summary of Recommended Actions for Richmond Friends Meeting 2025 and 2026 Form a three-person Race and Racial Justice Team, whose members will serve two-year terms, under the care of the Clerk of Meeting. Reparations to Indigenous peoples – Form a short-term ad hoc...
News and Activities
Richmond Friends Meeting Joins Democracy Forward Lawsuit Against Department of Homeland Security
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting and two BYM monthly meetings- Adelphi and Richmond - filed a lawsuit on January 27, 2025 against the Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit challenges the Department’s rescission...
BYM Reparations Delivered to the Pawnee Nation
Three Friends travelled to the Pawnee nation in Oklahoma to deliver a $10,000 check from Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The check was the first of two offered in reparation for a school run for several years in the late 1800s by BYM Quakers that was disrespectful and...
Reading Between the Lines, February 2
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines, onZoom, starting at 9 am, on Feb. 2, 2025. We will discuss John 1: 43-51: recognitions beyondsurfaces; the witness of one person leading to another “unlikely” person; the unlikely...
BYM Camps Are Open for Registration
BYM Camp registration is open. Financial assistance is available. Please contact Anna Best or Shannon Garrett with questions. You may also visit bymcamps.org for more information. If you know of a child who may enjoy attending camp, RE encourages you to engage with...
RE Announcements for February
The RE committee would like to clarify a procedure for parents of babies. Babies will not be brought to the Meeting room with the older children at the rise of meeting. For safety reasons, we ask that parents please retrieve their babies immediately following the...
Spiritual State of the Meeting Announcement: January 25, 9-11:30
Please join us Saturday, January 25th from 9:00-11:30 in person/Zoom for the Spiritual State of Richmond Friends Meeting, meeting. Guided by BYM Queries, we will try to discern Spirit’s movement among us this past year. This is an opportunity to share your thoughts on...
Last program of Quakerism 101: Quakers in the Wider World
The Fourth and final session of Quakerism 101 will be held at the Meetinghouse on January 26 at 9:30 am. Topic --"Quakers in the Wider World." Kelly Kennedy will facilitate beginning with a PowerPoint including maps of Quakers in Virginia, the nation, and worldwide....
December 5–Financial Dignity: Exploring the Historic Racial Wealth gap in RVA
Randy Cooper will share his extraordinary journey from hardship to leadership from his perspective as a credit union president in Richmond VA ......and growing up as the youngest of 11 children in Enfield NC. Date of Event: Thursday, Dec 5 Time: From 1 pm to 2 pm...
Living Our Values on Race and Racism: Forward Together
Come learn and contribute to RFM’s on-going discernment around race and racism. After a two-year process involving deep listening, study, and prayerful reflection, the Ad Hoc Committee on Race & Racism presented a proposed action/implementation plan at the...
