Abington Quarterly Meeting
 

What is Abington Quarterly Meeting?

As members of Abington Monthly Meeting, we are also part of Abington Quarterly Meeting (AQM), also called Abington Quarter, which is made up of nine Monthly Meetings in our local area. We are called "monthly" because we meet once a month to attend to business, even though we meet every week for worship. As the names suggest, our Quarterly Meeting meets four times a year, and our Yearly Meeting meets once a year. 

The Quaker meetings within Abington Quarter are all in Montgomery County, PA, with the exception of Richland (Bucks Co.) and Byberry (Northeast Philadelphia). There is also a Philadelphia Quarter, a Bucks Quarter, a Salem Quarter, a Caln Quarter and others.  All of these Quarters are within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM). 

"The Quarterly Meeting is designed to bring together a larger group for inspiration and counsel and to consider more varied interests than a Monthly or Preparative Meeting can undertake.  It is composed of constituent Monthly Meetings, each of which shall appoint representatives to attend it.

A Quarter's "...more helpful function should be to aid and encourage its constituent Monthly Meetings to greater interest and service and to give its members an increasing vision of Truth."  (Source: Faith and Practice of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)

The Meetings that make-up the Abington Quarter are:

(Clicking any of the links below will take you to that Meeting's website.)
1.  Abington Monthly Meeting
2.  Byberry Monthly Meeting
3.  Gwynedd Monthly Meeting
4.  Horsham Monthly Meeting
5.  Norristown Monthly Meeting
6 . Plymouth Monthly Meeting
7.  Richland Monthly Meeting
8.  Unami Monthly Meeting
9.  Upper Dublin Monthly Meeting

For Information about Abington Quarter:
Abington Quarter 

For Information about the Yearly Meeting:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM)