Quaker Information Center Member Groups
The Quaker Information Center is a cooperative project of eight Quaker organizations:
- American Friends Service Committee,
1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7000; e-mail: afscinfo@afsc.org;
web address: http://www.afsc.org/ The
American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization which includes
people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and
humanitarian service. Its work is based on the belief in the worth of every
person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
- Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7260; fax: (215) 567-2096; e-mail: cpmm@afsc.org Central Philadelphia
Monthly Meeting is located in the business district of Center City Philadelphia.
Housed in historic Race St. Meeting House, this active center city meeting
is part of the three-building complex called Friends Center. Worship is held
Sundays at 11 a.m., except July and August, when it is at 10 a.m. Children's
programming available.
- Friends Council on Education,
1507 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7245;
fax: (215) 241-7299; e-mail: info@friendscouncil.org; web address: http://www.friendscouncil.org/ Friends
Council on Education (FCE) member schools include nursery, elementary, and
secondary schools in the United States. The Council promotes the development
of the theory and practice of Quaker education, and helps schools define
and maintain their identities, visions, and missions as religious institutions
under the care of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Friends General Conference,
1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Phone: (215) 561-1700 or (800) 966-1700; fax: (215) 561-0759; e-mail: fgc@fgcquaker.org; web address: http://www.fgcquaker.org/. FGC provides resources and opportunities that educate and invite members and attenders to experience, individually and corporately, God's living presence, and to discern and follow God's leadings. FGC reaches out to seekers and to other religious bodies inside and outside the wider Religious Society of Friends. Opportunities include attendance at a major gathering, held each year in a different location in the United States. The FGC bookstore is accessible by walk-in, phone, mail, and on-line: http://quakerbooks.org/.
- Friends Journal,
1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Phone: (215) 563-8629;
fax: (215) 568-1377; e-mail: info@friendsjournal.org; web address: http://www.friendsjournal.org/ An
international monthly magazine of current Quaker thought and life, Friends Journal includes articles, art, poetry, news of Quaker organizations,
book reviews, a readers' forum, advertising, and a list of Friends meetings.
- Monthly Meeting of Friends
of Philadelphia (Also known as the Arch Street
Meeting), 320 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2114,
in the historic district of Center City Philadelphia. Monthly
Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia is located in the Arch
Street Meeting House, reputedly the largest Quaker Meeting
House in the world, built in 1804, on land given to Philadelphia
Quakers by William Penn in 1693. Arch Street Meeting answering
machine: (215) 625-0627 -- Worship is held Sundays at 10:30
(child care provided) and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Enter parking
lot from Fourth Street. E-mail: info@archstreetfriends.org; web
address: http://www.archstreetfriends.org/.
- Pendle Hill,
338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. Phone: (610)
566-4507; fax: (610) 566-3679; e-mail: pendlehill@pendlehill.org; web
address: http://www.pendlehill.org/ Pendle
Hill is a Quaker center for study and contemplation near Philadelphia.
It was founded in 1930, to be of service to the Religious Society
of Friends, to like-minded persons, and to the world. Pendle Hill
offers weekend conferences and retreats, five-day courses, and a
resident study program consisting of three 10-week terms each year; publishes
a pamphlet series; and operates a
bookstore featuring works about religion and spirituality. Summer programs include a six-week service and leadership program for college-age youth, a high school program, and a series of workshops on the arts and spirituality.
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7030 or (800) 220-0796; fax: (215) 567-2096; e-mail: maryc@pym.org; web address: http://www.pym.org/ Now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PYM traces its roots to the yearly meeting of 1681 in Burlington, New Jersey. For more than three centuries, PYM has served Monthly Meetings and Quarterly Meetings throughout eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Maryland and Delaware.