This year we decided to respond to the following queries for our State of the Meeting Report rather than a chronology of activities. What has it meant to be faithful in our Meeting this year? What do you consider to … Continue reading
Category Archives: State of Society Reports
“Our Meeting is . . . rich and vigorous. We are small in number but we are a welcoming community and our committees and other members are tireless in trying to broaden and expand and deepen our own commitment to … Continue reading
“drawn together in the same spirit” The Meeting is growing and developing in mutual support, faith and practice. We are ban older community, small but vigorous, and maturing in life with one another. In this first full year in the … Continue reading
It is with great joy and a deep sense of renewal that Port Townsend Friends Meeting shares this 2014 State of Society report. In August the Meeting purchased a small church at 1841Sheridan, a prominent corner in Port Townsend, and … Continue reading
April 13, 2014 Port Townsend Friends Meeting is a community of 16 active members, and 10 regular attenders. On most First Days we have 15 to 20 people gathered for Meeting for Worship. Our Meetings have been rich and deep … Continue reading
The deepening of our experience of the Spirit and the strengthening of the loving bonds of community among us continue to be the linchpins of the Port Townsend Friends Meeting, and the support we show one another in times of trouble continue to define the core strength of our Meeting. One such time of trouble came early in the year when we once again had to face the passing of one of our beloved members, Lauren Erickson. We were blessed beforehand with the opportunity to participate in a joyous celebration of her life with Lauren present, shining her Light upon all of us from her hospital bed in … Continue reading
In the past year there is an increasing sense among us that the richness and fullness we experience in Meeting for Worship and in our lives together are signs of a growing maturity in the life of our Meeting. We … Continue reading
Port Townsend Friends Meeting finds echoes of our year in Isaac Penington’s writings: Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness: and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one … Continue reading
Port Townsend Friends Meeting is still relatively young and we are learning as we go. One major 2009 theme has been looking inward. We have six active care committees and were asked to hold a number of clearness committees for … Continue reading
During 2008, Port Townsend Friends Meeting grew and deepened, with a number of new attenders joining our beloved community for worship. Our worship, in silence and in voice, was rich and deep, with Friends frequently experiencing a gathered meeting. The … Continue reading