Multnomah Friends Meeting
Welcome to Multnomah Friends Meeting
Meeting for Worship is held every Sunday at 8:15am and 10 am using Zoom. Click this link at 8:10am or 9:55 am. Meeting ID: 705 774 465. Password: 923550. Please mute your audio unless you have a message to give. Meeting for Worship for Business will be held at the same link. Dialing in by phone?
Midweek Worship Group Meeting for Worship is held Wednesdays at noon using Zoom. Click this link at 11:55 am. Meeting ID: 325 077 955. Password: 337283
Check out our Weekly Bulletin for this week's events and notices.
For more information about online Quaker Worship, check out A Quaker's Guide to Online Worship and Meetings and this article in the New York Times about Quaker Meetings online.
Who we are....
Multnomah Friends Meeting, a Quaker spiritual community, welcomes all. We are a member of the Community of Welcoming Congregations.
Like all Quakers, we call ourselves Friends; we are formally known as the Religious Society of Friends.
We value our radical diversity. Our core belief is that the Divine Spirit is accessible to all. Most Friends are Christians, but many are not. We come to Friends from many faith traditions. Most of us began our spiritual journeys in some other tradition or no tradition at all.
We call our gathering place a Meetinghouse. Striving for simplicity, our place of worship is plain. We sit together in a circle or rectangle. Recognizing that the Divine Spirit is accessible to all, we gather without reliance on formal creeds, sacraments, or clergy. Our worship is grounded in silence. All present are free to speak out of the silence if they are genuinely moved to do so. Spoken ministry should be for the others gathered as well as for the speaker.
The community gathers in a monthly Meeting for Worship for Business to consider together what actions we might take. We do this recognizing that the Divine Spirit is present to guide us to decisions which are appropriate for this community at this time.
Individually we each strive to live in the Light of the Spirit which leads us to lives based in simplicity, peace, integrity, community, and equality. These are our testimonies and we find that in trying to live up to them, our lives are changed.
Multnomah Friends News
COVID Update! MFM Library Resumes Lending!
Multnomah Friends Meeting Library will resume lending books and some pamphlets in January, using COVID-safe procedures. Read more.
Multnomah Meeting Friends For Racial Justice Statement
Dear Friends:
Multnomah Monthly Meeting reminds Friends of our Minute on Racial Justice. In this time of universal mourning for the lives of black citizens who have been killed by and in the criminal "justice" system, we ask that friends take action to live our Minute. In addition to any specific action you are taking in response to the latest police killings of unarmed Black people, we especially encourage our white friends to please review this excellent article entitled "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice." The Meeting's Friends for Racial Justice Planning Committee asks each of us to commit to doing one or two things from the list by a certain date.
Please share the things you commit to doing (and updates on your progress) either on the Meeting’s Racial Justice Facebook page or by emailing the information to Lori Patterson ([email protected]), who will post it on the Facebook page. These are concrete things we can do to work against racism in our own community and beyond. You can access the page by joining Facebook and searching for Multnomah Quaker Meeting Racial Justice Study and Action Group. You will see a link that says "Join Group."
Here are additional resources that you can access to find ways to support people of color and anti-racist work: Friends Committee on National Legislation; Black Lives Matter; Don't Shoot Portland; Campaign Zero; and My Brother's Keeper.
Justice & Peace,
Friends for Racial Justice of Multnomah Monthly Meeting
Featured
Click links to see the approved slate of committee assignments for 2020-21 (as of October 2020) and correspondi
How to make financial contributions to the Meeting
This is a handout from a presentation to Junior Friends about the issues of war, militarism, and Conscientious Objection. I have a web
Filmmaker Tom Weidlinger made a film in 1972 that records some of the experience of a Quaker Meeting for Worship, a Quaker marriage, and statements by several members of the Multnomah Friends Meeting. He has recently edited the film and
Meeting Times
Notice: All in-person gatherings at the Meetinghouse have been replaced by online Meetings until further notice. Full details.
Online Early Worship: Sunday 8:15-9:30. Click Link to enter at 8:10 am.
Online Meeting for Worship: Sunday 10 - 11 am. Click Link to enter at 9:55 am.
Online Meeting for Business: 3rd Sundays (except July) at 12:15 pm. Click Link to enter at 12:10 pm.
Online 2nd Day Bible Study: Monday 7 - 8 am. Click Link to enter at 6:55 am.
Online Midweek Worship Group
Meeting for Worship: Wednesdays 12 - 12:30 pm. Click Link to enter at 11:55 am.
Online Mountain View Worship Group
Meeting for Worship: 1st and 3rd Sundays 10 am. Click Link to enter at 9:55 am.
Parking and Transportation Information
Other Local meetings & worship groups
What's New
Our wonderful Hearthkeeper, Holly Jarvis, is transitioning out of the position, so the Meeting is in the process of hiring a new Hearthkeeper. At this time, because we are not having renters in the building, the Hearthkeeper is only working 16 to 24 hours a month and goes to the Meetinghouse once a week (most weeks). Things will ramp up, of course, as we can open the building to renters. At that time, it is anticipated that the monthly hours will go back to 40 to 60, with more frequent trips to the Meetinghouse required.
Weekly Bulletins 2013-19
For the complete archive in chronological order, see the links in the "Files" section below.
Dear Friends,
The attached Minute on Earthcare was presented at NPYM Annual Session last month.
Worship with us!
Notice: All in-person gatherings at the Meetinghouse have been replaced by online Meetings until further notice. Full details.
Online Early Worship: Sunday 8:15-9:30. Click Link to enter at 8:10 am.
Online Meeting for Worship: Sunday 10 - 11 am. Click Link to enter at 9:55 am.
Online Meeting for Business: 3rd Sundays (except July) at 12:15 pm. Click Link to enter at 12:10 pm.
Online 2nd Day Bible Study: Monday 7 - 8 am. Click Link to enter at 6:55 am.
Online Midweek Worship Group
Meeting for Worship: Wednesdays 12 - 12:30 pm. Click Link to enter at 11:55 am.
Online Mountain View Worship Group
Meeting for Worship: 1st and 3rd Sundays 10 am. Click Link to enter at 9:55 am.
Parking and Transportation Information
Other Local meetings & worship groups