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.

01/12/2025

Not everyone can physically reach a Quaker Meeting every week — life happens, bodies limit us, schedules clash.
Fortunately, worship doesn’t depend on doors and bricks.

There are online Meetings throughout the week: some on Sunday mornings, some during workday afternoons, some in the quiet of the evening.
A few are global; others are local. All are open-hearted.

Full list in the first comment.

09/11/2025

*Growing call to recognise civilians on Remembrance Day, amidst record conflict deaths worldwide*

As global civilian deaths in conflict reach record levels, we are calling for remembrance to properly recognise civilian victims of war.
Today in London, a special series of commemorations will draw attention to civilian casualties:
- 12 noon - The National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony, by the Peace Pledge Union
- 3pm - Remembrance Lecture, by the Movement for the Abolition of War
- 5pm - Launch of 'Memorial 2025', video projection, by Every Casualty Counts (ECC) and Quakers in Britain

The number of civilian deaths worldwide jumped by 40% in 2024 and has been increasing for three years running, due to the violence in Gaza, Ukraine and other war zones worldwide. The death toll is especially acute among children, who are being killed in unprecedented numbers, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Acclaimed actor Sir Mark Rylance, who is due to speak at National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony, has backed the call to remember civilians, saying, “Unfortunately wars are fought with and against civilians today and I consider it an offense not to remember their suffering.”

Later in the afternoon a large scale video projection, organised by Every Casualty Counts (ECC) and Quakers in Britain, will feature testimonies of ordinary people killed in conflicts over the past year. The testimonies are drawn from Memorial 2025, a new project by ECC being launched at the event, telling the stories of over 100 people who have lost their lives in Ukraine, Sudan, Mexico, Palestine and other war zones around the world.

Rachel Taylor, Executive Director of ECC, said, “Every life lost to war is a tragedy and should be remembered. But remembering those who died in wars of the past is a hollow act if we don’t also recognise the victims of war today. That is why today we are launching the Memorial 2025 project, which brings together the stories of ordinary people killed in wars around the world over the previous year.”

Read the full story - https://www.ppu.org.uk/news/growing-call-recognise-civilians-remembrance-day-amidst-record-conflict-deaths-worldwide

10/10/2025

Historically, Early Quakers were not too keen on holidays. This arose from a belief among Friends that all days were equally holy and that holidays were a man-made invention rather than something that organically sprang from the movements of The Holy Spirit. In the modern day many (if not most) Friends in the United States participate in Halloween. They generally see Halloween as a fun, secular holiday to emphasize spending quality time with family, friends, and their community.

Quaker values colliding with mainstream American culture leads to a unique twist on Halloween though. Friends tend to eschew costumes that indirectly celebrate violence, have weapons, or represent warriors. Like with Christmas celebrations, many Quakers also de-emphasize the consumer culture that comes along with it in American society. And yet, some Friends feel spiritually led to abstain from the holiday and what it might represent to them. There is not a single Quaker way to celebrate (or reject) Halloween.

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