Worthing Quaker Meeting House

Worthing Quaker Meeting House 34 Mill road, Worthing, BN11 5DR.
Meetings for Worship every Sunday 10.30 - 11.30✨️ Everyone welcomed. Simple affordable rooms and garden for hire 🏡
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We offer 3 rooms and a garden for hire for community groups and private events and meetings

Do Quakers celebrate Easter?The short answer is: not in the traditional way.Members of the Religious Society of Friends ...
05/04/2026

Do Quakers celebrate Easter?

The short answer is: not in the traditional way.

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) don’t usually mark Easter with special services, rituals, or symbols like eggs, bunnies, or even a set liturgy. There is no “Easter Sunday service” in the way many churches hold one.

Instead, Quakers carry the spirit of Easter quietly… all year round.

Easter speaks of renewal, transformation, and the possibility of new life emerging from darkness. For Quakers, these are not tied to a date on the calendar but lived as a continuous inner experience. Worship remains simple: sitting together in stillness, listening, waiting, and sometimes speaking from the heart.

Some Quakers may personally reflect on the Easter story or attend family or community gatherings. Others may not observe it at all. And that’s part of the beauty: there is space for individual conscience.

So rather than celebrating Easter, Quakers might be said to live its meaning— without cute bunny decorations.

We planted this little beauty in our garden from a bulb… and look what appeared 🌸Do you know what it is?It’s a snake’s h...
29/03/2026

We planted this little beauty in our garden from a bulb… and look what appeared 🌸

Do you know what it is?

It’s a snake’s head fritillary — a delicate spring flower with a natural chequered pattern, like it’s been carefully painted by hand.

It’s quite special here in the UK, often found in old meadows and considered a bit of a treat to see.

We feel quietly proud that it chose to grow for us.

Happy International Women’s Day!From the very beginning, Quakers have recognised the equal spiritual worth of women and ...
08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day!

From the very beginning, Quakers have recognised the equal spiritual worth of women and men. In the 17th century, when most religious traditions silenced women, Quakers upheld the radical belief that women could be called to speak in worship, minister, and lead. Early Quaker women played a crucial role in shaping the movement, advocating for women's voices in both faith and society.

Today, as we celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, we also reflect on the Quaker commitment to equality. While progress has been made, the fight for gender justice continues. On this day, let us reaffirm our dedication to a world where every person—regardless of gender—can live, work, and worship in equality and dignity.

(The painting, titled A Quaker Meeting by Egbert van Heemskerck, depicts a gathering of Quakers, likely in the late 17th century).

Spring is here.
04/03/2026

Spring is here.

Do Quakers celebrate Christmas?Historically, early Quakers stopped observing religious festivals — including Christmas a...
14/12/2025

Do Quakers celebrate Christmas?

Historically, early Quakers stopped observing religious festivals — including Christmas and Easter — because they felt that fixed holy days distracted from lived faith.
What mattered was not remembering Christ once a year, but living the testimony of peace, equality, truth, and simplicity every day.

That said, Quaker practice around the world is not uniform. There is no central authority, no rulebook that everyone must follow. Traditions can differ from Meeting to Meeting, and choices are often left to individual conscience.

Majority of Quakers don’t celebrate Christmas in the traditional way. Not because Christmas is rejected — but because, for many Quakers, the Light is present at all times, in all people, on all days.
If every day is holy, then no single day can claim exclusive holiness.

Many modern Quakers do join family celebrations, share meals, exchange gifts, sing carols — not as a religious obligation, but as an expression of community, kindness, and joy.

Some Meetings may hold a gathering around Christmas time; others will not mark it at all.

So if you ask a Quaker,
“Do you celebrate Christmas?”
the most honest answer is: It depends.

On the person.
On the Meeting.
On how each listens for what feels true.

An ongoing invitation to let the Light be born — again and again — in ordinary life.

14/12/2025

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

"In Him sit down, who is above the subtle foxes in their holes, and the fowls of the air in their nests; I say, sit down in Christ, who hath no place among them to lay his head; He is your rest. So in him is my love to you all."

Citation: George Fox, 1682
Cofounder of the Religious Society of Friends

14/12/2025

Our new contact number is +447491368039.

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34 Mill Road
Worthing
BN11 5DR

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+447904643350

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