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, 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!
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.
Custom Quaker Apparel: Abington Meeting & World Quaker Day
Abington Monthly Meeting is thrilled to host our Friends & Neighbors for World Quaker Day on Sunday, October 5th. To commemorate the occasion, some creative Members have collaborated to design some limited edition Quaker apparel! Note that there are designs on the front and back, including the theme of the day Love Your Neighbor.
Place your order by September 15 to get your items shipped directly to your home in time for the event. We'll have a few on hand that day (at a higher price), but if you want to choose your design and size and get the reduced price, use this link:
https://www.customink.com/g/rdc0-00cz-s3d0
Order one for yourself and another for a loved one!
Special thanks go to J.Wray who captured our wonderful maple tree under which we sit for Outdoor Meeting for Worship in the summers. (And thanks to Veronica Scarpellino, who did the overall design.)
Questions? Contact Veronica Scarpellino. But don't delay, as soon as we have 75 orders, they ship!
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.