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
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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
Port Townsend Friends Meeting continues to gather each First Day at the Community Center in Port Townsend. The attendance varies from 20 to 35. Occasionally young people or children join us, at which time members provide a children’s program. Before … Continue reading
The transformation of the Port Townsend Community Center into a sacred space for our Meeting for Worship begins when the sandwich board announcing the Meeting is set up outside the entrance on each First Day. Friends and attenders come into … Continue reading
Friends began to use queries to ascertain the state of Society only a few years after its founding in England. The first set of such questions to be asked of monthly meetings read as follows: Which Friends in service to … Continue reading
Port Townsend Friends Meeting approaches the end of our third year as a monthly meeting in a spirit of gratitude, joy, and expectation. We have grown during this last year, in our inward spiritual life as a loving community of … Continue reading
In April of 2003 we began our second year as a Monthly Meeting. As we find our way as a new Meeting, a feeling of understanding, deep care, and Quaker process is evident. This year has brought trying times for … Continue reading
This is our first State of the Society report as a Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The year has been a transition to a keen awareness of our identity as Friends grounded in our corporate worship and … Continue reading