Join us on Sunday, September 22, in person from 9:15-10:30 am in the Community room. In this session we'll be exploring Quaker Process. Friends make decisions about how to tend to Spirit, how to care for each other, how to nourish ourselves and our families, how to...
Richmond Friends Meeting is growing. On September 8, at rise of meeting, we are having a welcome reception for nine new members and three babies. Our new members are: Anna-Marie Bolin, Mary Burrus, Maxwell Cloe, Shannon Garrett, Kendra Harvey, Lori Kvam, Paul Kvam,...
The Ad Hoc Committee on Race and Racism has been researching the history of our meeting through a racial lens. We will present our findings on Saturday, August 24, in the community room at the Meetinghouse. Coffee beginning at 9:30; program from 10:00 to 11:30. This...
Please join the ad hoc Committee on Race and Racism, the Committee on Ministry and Worship, and the Adult Spiritual Education Committee for this year’s fall retreat. Michelle Cassandra Johnson – author, social worker, yoga teacher, and Dismantling Racism trainer –...
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines (Bible Workbench) from 9-10 am on First Day, August 4, through Zoom. We will discuss John 6:24-25. People, after the feeding of the 5000, look for Jesus and when they find him, ask,...
“… Quakers could begin to make reparations by funding Indigenous language schools. [As suggested by a member of Twin Cities Meeting] “An important step Friends can take, both individually and collectively to address the deep harms caused by boarding schools is to...
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines, through Zoom, starting at 9 a.m. on First Day, July 7. We will discuss Mark 6:1-13: how one is received/perceived in one’s “hometown” (as different from how one is able to act and...
The RFM playground is closed effectively immediately and until further notice. Our sump pump, which is located underneath the playground, has stopped working and needs repair. Currently there is a big hole and 2 piles of gravel on the playground, which isn’t safe for...
After a successful art sale last year, the Peace and Social Concerns Committee will hold another art sale on November 10th at the rise of Meeting in the fellowship room. We are collecting art donations until November 1st. The art created by Richmond Friends sold the...
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...