Upcoming Events

 
October 5:

Friends and Neighbors are warmly invited to join us at Abington Friends Meeting on Sunday, October 5, 2025 for our celebration of World Quaker Day with the international theme Love Your Neighbor!  If you've wondered what Quakers are all about, this is your chance to visit and experience Quaker worship and fellowship. Our building is accessible, and parking is available along the curb of our driveway, just off our Greenwood Avenue entrance, in our lower parking lot or across Greenwood Avenue at the Triangle Building. We will gather in our main meetinghouse (the largest building, with a porch) at 10 AM. Following worship at approximately 11 AM, all are welcome to join for lunch and fellowship just across the hall in our John Barnes Room social area. We will have music and conversation, and Friends will be glad to answer your questions about Quakers and show you around! Please join us, and feel free to bring your friends, family and questions! All are welcome!

2025 World Quaker Day
For our Meeting community: Please sign up to help or to bring a dish to share using the link below. Follow these 3 easy steps:
1) Click this link to see our SignUp on SignUp: https://signup.com/go/KjMEMax
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.
Note: SignUp does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact John Flak, who can sign you up manually.
 

November 8:


Supporting Clearness: Abington Meeting Half-Day Retreat

Saturday, November 8, 2025, facilitated by Marcelle Martin, hosted by our Adult Education Committee

10 am to 12:30 pm Morning session: Support for the Spiritual Journey
We will explore how we experience the Spirit and how we can support each other in attending to the subtle ways we receive guidance and inspiration. We’ll learn about Evoking questions and practice them in pairs. We will discuss Clearness Committees and Faithfulness groups and other ways community can support us in staying centered, grounded, and energized for speaking and acting from a place of clarity and authenticity and courage.
1:30 to 3:30 pm Afternoon session : Helping Each Other Hear the Guide
In small groups of three, participants will engage in Discernment Trios, in which each person will have the opportunity to be the focus of the group and receive and respond to evoking questions. Afterwards, as a whole group, we will share our experiences of giving and receiving support for clearness and authenticity.

November 16:

All are welcome to our first Book Signing and Sale! All of the authors are Quakers (or Quaker-adjacent!), but the books are on a wide variety of subjects and for different age levels. Come and browse, and meet the authors! If you'd like to arrive by 10 AM, you are welcome to join us for meeting for worship, or just plan to arrive between 11 AM and 1 PM for the Book Signing.

BOOK SIGNING 2025

 

 
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Hello and welcome to our meeting. If you are a new visitor, we have a page for you to get to know us and learn more about planning a visit.
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Planning your Visit

New to Abington Friends Meeting? 

All are welcome here!
All are warmly invited to attend Meeting for Worship and other activities at Abington Friends Meeting! Please come for a visit! 

Our official name is: Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. We are called "monthly" because we meet once a month to attend to business, but we have meeting for worship every Sunday. 

Indoor Meeting for Worship
10:00 AM until 11:00 AM
Year-round

Outdoor Meeting for Worship
Every Sunday, mid-June - early September (weather permitting)
10:00 AM until 11:00 AM (happening at the same time as indoor Meeting for Worship)
In addition to our normal indoor Meeting for Worship, we hold optional outdoor Meetings behind the Meeting House during the summer.

Programming for Children and Youth (also called First Day School)
Youth Programming (grades k - 8)
Every Sunday, September - May
10:00 - 11:00 am
Childcare (all children younger than kindergarten)
Every Sunday, year-round
9:45 - 11:15, with additional times to support adult class and Meeting for Business, September - May
Click Here for more information on Programming for Children and Youth

Adult Classes
Occasional Sundays, September – May
11:15 AM. All ages welcome.
First Day School for Adults consists of talks and activities that provide a Quaker perspective on the issues and challenges of everyday life. 

Parking
Members and attenders park on the right side of the driveway leading up to the Meeting House (accessible from our entrance on Greenwood Avenue) or in the parking lot on the west side of the Meeting House. Please note that our meetinghouse driveways are one-way, so vehicles must enter from Greenwood Avenue and exit onto Meetinghouse Road. 

Orientation
As you enter the Meetinghouse, which is what we call our place of worship, the room where the Meeting gathers will be the first door on your right. The John Barnes Room, which is where we meet for adult classes and special events will be the first door on your left.

Meeting Etiquette
Because Quakers worship in silence, please lower your voice when approaching the Meeting House before Meeting for Worship. Likewise, please silence your cellphone.

There is no pastor or minister. Instead, attenders rise and speak when the Spirit moves them, generally keep their comments brief and of a spiritual, heartfelt nature, and allow ample time for others to reflect on what has been said before rising to speak. Statements often have a common thread; however, this is not a requirement. 

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