Quaker Information Center Member Groups
The Quaker Information Center is a cooperative project of eight Quaker organizations:
- Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7260; fax: (215) 567-2096; e-mail: cpmm@afsc.org Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting is located in the business district of Center City Philadelphia. Housed in historic Race St. Meeting House, this active center city meeting is part of the three-building complex called Friends Center. Worship is held Sundays at 11 a.m., except July and August, when it is at 10 a.m. Children's programming available.
- Friends Council on Education, 1507 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7245; fax: (215) 241-7299; e-mail: info@friendscouncil.org; web address: http://www.friendscouncil.org/ Friends Council on Education (FCE) member schools include nursery, elementary, and secondary schools in the United States. The Council promotes the development of the theory and practice of Quaker education, and helps schools define and maintain their identities, visions, and missions as religious institutions under the care of the Religious Society of Friends.
- Friends General Conference, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Phone: (215) 561-1700 or (800) 966-1700; fax: (215) 561-0759; e-mail: fgc@fgcquaker.org; web address: http://www.fgcquaker.org/. FGC provides resources and opportunities that educate and invite members and attenders to experience, individually and corporately, God's living presence, and to discern and follow God's leadings. FGC reaches out to seekers and to other religious bodies inside and outside the wider Religious Society of Friends. Opportunities include attendance at a major gathering, held each year in a different location in the United States. The FGC bookstore is accessible by walk-in, phone, mail, and on-line: http://quakerbooks.org/.
- Friends Journal, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Phone: (215) 563-8629; fax: (215) 568-1377; e-mail: info@friendsjournal.org; web address: http://www.friendsjournal.org/ An international monthly magazine of current Quaker thought and life, Friends Journal includes articles, art, poetry, news of Quaker organizations, book reviews, a readers' forum, advertising, and a list of Friends meetings.
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Also known as the Arch Street Meeting), 320 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2114, in the historic district of Center City Philadelphia. Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia is located in the Arch Street Meeting House, reputedly the largest Quaker Meeting House in the world, built in 1804, on land given to Philadelphia Quakers by William Penn in 1693. Arch Street Meeting answering machine: (215) 625-0627 -- Worship is held Sundays at 10:30 (child care provided) and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Enter parking lot from Fourth Street. E-mail: info@archstreetfriends.org; web address: http://www.archstreetfriends.org/.
- Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. Phone: (610) 566-4507; fax: (610) 566-3679; e-mail: pendlehill@pendlehill.org; web address: http://www.pendlehill.org/ Pendle Hill is a Quaker center for study and contemplation near Philadelphia. It was founded in 1930, to be of service to the Religious Society of Friends, to like-minded persons, and to the world. Pendle Hill offers weekend conferences and retreats, five-day courses, and a resident study program consisting of three 10-week terms each year; publishes a pamphlet series; and operates a bookstore featuring works about religion and spirituality. Summer programs include a six-week service and leadership program for college-age youth, a high school program, and a series of workshops on the arts and spirituality.
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Phone: (215) 241-7030 or (800) 220-0796; fax: (215) 567-2096; e-mail: maryc@pym.org; web address: http://www.pym.org/ Now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PYM traces its roots to the yearly meeting of 1681 in Burlington, New Jersey. For more than three centuries, PYM has served Monthly Meetings and Quarterly Meetings throughout eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Maryland and Delaware.
