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By Carol It’s hard to believe that we purchased our meetinghouse eighteen years ago. Since then we have accomplished quite a few major projects and many more minor ones. We chose this house because it was ideally located, had good spaces for worship and First Day School, and was newly painted throughout the interior. Still,…

By Melissa Vocal ministry didn’t come easily to me when I first came to Memphis Friends Meeting. Even though I often heard messages from other Friends that “spoke to my condition”, whenever spirit stirred in me, I’d push the message down. What helped me become more comfortable with listening to spirit, and in turn offering…

By Neal It is rare to feel absolutely sure of something; perhaps that’s part of the appeal of religion. Religion can provide a feeling of certainty in an often-uncertain world. For me, this has less to do with knowledge of what the future will hold, and more to do with a sense of one’s place…

By Candace In the late 1700’s, my forefathers crossed the Atlantic to settle in Pennsylvania, a place William Penn and his followers had established a century before to practice the Quaker faith in peace. In the 1800’s, third-generation ancestors on both my paternal and maternal sides migrated to Iowa to farm, and 150 years later,…

By Denny A new kind of meeting for Memphis Friends is our monthly game night, which started in fall 2024 – we’ve called it meeting for worship with attention to community, to fun, or to games. Danielle notes that game night is wholesome – a time to gather as a community to play and have…