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Community

Quakerism is an experiential faith. We come together to learn how to put into daily practice our tenets of:

    • simplicity & stewardship
    • peacefulness
    • integrity
    • community
    • equality

Each person’s path may be different but the shared journey deepens and enriches our lives. We welcome everyone to our fellowship.

We provide opportunities for both children and adults for religious education and spiritual growth including:

    • Sunday classes and forums
    • Bible Study
    • in-depth exploration of spiritual paths

We also offer service activities, a meditative retreat center in Amelia County, shared meals, and opportunities for friendship and community building.

Social Action

Quakers have been on the leading edge of peacemaking and human rights issues for hundreds of years. Our roots in prison reform, anti-slavery, women’s suffrage, and peacemaking undergird today’s missions, among them:

    • reforming criminal justice
    • finding alternatives to violence
    • caring for the earth
    • working toward equity in our own neighborhood and around the world

We seek not only to understand the issues but also to take considered, concrete action to bring about change.

Some of our organizations putting Quaker Values to work:

Recent News and Announcements

December 7 is Leaf Raking Day

It’s time to get up the leaves around the Meetinghouse! Buildings and Grounds hosts an annual leaf raking day and this year it will be December 7 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. Please come and join us and bring a rake. We will also have some rakes handy as well. This year...

Living Our Values on Race and Racism: Forward Together

Come learn and contribute to RFM’s on-going discernment around race and racism. After a two-year process involving deep listening, study, and prayerful reflection, the Ad Hoc Committee on Race & Racism presented a proposed action/implementation plan at the...

Holiday Singalong and Potluck Breakfast

Break out your best breakfast recipe and your singing voice for the Annual Carol Sing on Sunday, December 8, from 9:30 to 10:45 am. Meet in the Community Room downstairs.

Funds Raised for World Central Kitchen

Peace and Social Concerns Committee expresses our deep appreciation to all the artists who contributed to the art auction for World Central Kitchen.  The energy, fellowship, food and art made for a wonderful gathering.  Between donations and sale of art, we raised...

Reading Between the Lines, December 1

The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines (formerly called Bible Workbench) on Dec. 1, through Zoom, from 9-10 am. We will discuss Mark 1: 1-8:  the significance of the opening lines of a story, messengers, news,...

Pumpkins for Goats

The elementary-school-aged RE class is collecting whole, uncarved, unpainted pumpkins to feed to goatsat RVAGoats.  Please put your pumpkin in the playground near the picnic table.  We will be collectingthem throughout November.

Worship at The Clearing, December 1

Because the weather has been so beautiful, the worship season at The Clearing has been extended through December 1. Please come and join us.

From BYM Indigenous Affairs Committee, Considerations for Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving, consider joining Native peoples in gratitude by remembering the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. At Patapsco Friends Meeting, the address was read together one year – each person read a section of this powerful offering of thanks to the natural...

FGC Online Gathering, February 1-9, 2025

Come join Friends this winter for an inclusive, joyful, enlivening Online Gathering! The theme is A Spring Whose Waters Never Fail. When we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and break every yoke of oppression, then our faith will become like a well watered garden –...

November Announcements from RE

On October 27th, many children came to Meeting dressed in their costumes and what fun it was for everyone! The children collected $227.75 for UNICEF. On December 1st, the children are invited to participate in a Celebration of Bodhi Day, the Buddhist Day of...

Minute Against Violence in the Region of Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank

We, the members of the Richmond (VA) Friends Meeting are heartbroken and stricken with horror and grief at the recent renewed eruption of violence in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.  We call for an immediate ceasefire by both Israel and Hamas, the prompt release...

RFM Minute on Race and Racism

(Final version, revised 28 January 2024) As Friends, our belief that there is “that of God” in everyone grounds our practice of upholding the worth of each human being. Each person is guided by an Inward Teacher toward truth; each has the capacity to experience and be...

Prayer Group for Healing at RFM

There is a Prayer for Healing Group at RFM, and its purpose is to support our community with intentional prayers, especially in times of need and loss. We are about fifteen members sending out prayers every two weeks to those who have requested them. The prayer group...