Asheville Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Asheville Friends Meeting (Quaker) We are an unprogrammed Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. We gather each First Day (Sunday), with singing at 9:30 a.m. Join us!

and Meeting for Worship at 10:00. Our Meeting House is located at 227 Edgewood Road in Asheville, NC.

"Around the Ancient Tower," a benefit concert for the "Love Thy Neighbor" campaign of Faith Communities for Immigration ...
07/14/2026

"Around the Ancient Tower," a benefit concert for the "Love Thy Neighbor" campaign of Faith Communities for Immigration Justice, of which Asheville Meeting is a member community, will take place this Sunday, July 19, starting at 3 p.m. The concert features the music of Annelinde Metzner, with featured singer Allison Adams, cellist Frances Duff, guitarist Deb Pollard, and dancer Leah Robling. At the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Swannanoa Valley, 500 Montreat Road, Black Mountain. $20 suggested donation, but all are welcome regardless of ability to pay. Cash or check only please.

We're having a Yard Sale!
06/02/2026

We're having a Yard Sale!

04/16/2026

In violation of federal law and internationally agreed humanitarian principles, the executive leadership of the United States launched a war of aggression against Iran, without any effective opposition from Congress, and without support from, or even consultation with, the United Nations Security Council. The executive ordered military personnel to participate in the assassination of Iran’s political leadership in violation of international law, and decreed that military personnel ignore established rules of engagement, target non-combatants, and give no quarter to captives.

We Quakers of Asheville Friends Meeting acknowledge that as tax-paying citizens we are complicit in the waging of this war, and for the sake of conscience we cannot remain silent or complacent in the face of such a travesty of justice. We are unequivocally opposed to this assault against human life, human rights, and international law, and will take every The opportunity to stand up and speak out against it.

04/06/2026

“There is that of God in every person.” This simple, powerful testimony leads the Asheville Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends to welcome all people, including those of any sexual orientation, gender presentation, or gender identity. We advocate for equality of all people and for the right of everyone to live safely and without fear.

Asheville Friends:

• Reject the anti-scientific notion of a "gender binary."

• Affirm the right of every person to self-identify their gender.

• Recognize all gender expressions as valid and real.

• Acknowledge, affirm, and embrace the gifts of the Spirit embodied in our transgender, intersex, and nonbinary beloveds with joy, humility, and gratitude.

We welcome q***r, le***an, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender folks as co-equal participants in our spiritual journey and in all other aspects of the beloved community.

At the Meetinghouse. In the morning!
03/28/2026

At the Meetinghouse. In the morning!

Many Asheville Friends will be attending the No Kings Rally on Mar 28, here and near. Point your smart phone at the QR t...
03/17/2026

Many Asheville Friends will be attending the No Kings Rally on Mar 28, here and near. Point your smart phone at the QR to learn more.

02/02/2026

Following the very successful Walk for Remembrance and Orange Shirt Day back in September, the Cherokee Boarding School Planning group now begins work on the next project. They want to identify historical cemetery gravesites that are hidden by invasive kudzu. They’re planning to clean up the gravesites from February 9-12. They don’t need our physical effort but need assistance with financing for the tools and food offered to the volunteers.

If you would like to support this project, please go to PayPal and donate to our account at [email protected]. Since Steve Livingston is our treasurer, his name will come up & the email will show underneath it. Please include “For gravesite cleanup” in the note bar beneath the name and email. Please submit your donation by Thursday, February 5th so we can send one payment in ABLA’s name on Fri, Feb 6th. Thanks so much for any amount you can give.

01/13/2026

Each month, when we meet with other advocates and allies in Faith Communities for Immigration Justice, our convener Rev. Sara Wilcox of Land of Sky UCC shares an opening reading. This morning it was a poem by John O'Donohue called "Courage." It seems especially appropriate in this moment to share more widely as we are faced with ever-increasing danger in our justice work.

When the light around you lessens
And your thoughts darken until
Your body feels fear turn
Cold as a stone inside,

When you find yourself bereft
Of any belief in yourself
And all you unknowingly
Leaned on has fallen,

When one voice commands
Your whole heart,
And it is raven dark,

Steady yourself and see
That it is your own thinking
That darkens your world.

Search and you will find
A diamond-thought of light,

Know that you are not alone,
And that this darkness has purpose;
Gradually it will school your eyes,
To find the one gift your life requires
Hidden within this night-corner.

Invoke the learning
Of every suffering
You have suffered.

Close your eyes.
Gather all the kindling
About your heart
To create one spark
That is all you need
To nourish the flame
That will cleanse the dark
Of its weight of festered fear.

A new confidence will come alive
To urge you towards higher ground
Where your imagination
will learn to engage difficulty
As its most rewarding threshold!

Last week our second hour adult spiritual enrichment focused on the topic of vocal ministry. At the beginning of the hou...
12/01/2025

Last week our second hour adult spiritual enrichment focused on the topic of vocal ministry. At the beginning of the hour, our facilitator shared a poem by Robert Hewison, from Britain Yearly Meeting's Faith and Practice Book of Christian Discipline, and then shared a "flow chart" offering guidance on whether to speak out of the silence. Here's a link to the flow chart:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OuIba-TjyXdT_mg3-8eb0Fz1hioq1MXh-xrv6Cob1Q0/edit?tab=t.0

And the poem:

My piece was pat and all ready to say,
She rose first, I threw my piece away.
My well-turned stuff
Was not so rough
As hers, but easy elegant and smooth.
Beginning middle end
It had, and a point
And aptly quoted prophet priest and poet.
Hers was uncouth
Wanting in art
Labored scarce-audible and out of joint.
Three times she lost the thread
And sitting left her message half unsaid.
‘Why then did thee throw it
Into the discard?’
Friend,

It had head
(Like this). Hers oh had heart.

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227 Edgewood Road
Asheville, NC
28804

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(307)8001604

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