Fox Valley Friends Meeting - Green Bay, WI Quakers

Fox Valley Friends Meeting - Green Bay, WI Quakers We are a gathering of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). We meet each Sunday from 11am-12pm for silent worship. Welcome! Come worship with us!

We are currently meeting in a hybrid format with both virtual and in-person options for worship. At Meeting for Worship each Sunday we come together to seek the Divine in unprogrammed silent worship. All are welcome to join us at 11 a.m. We are currently offering a hybrid format with both virtual and in-person options for worship. The link for our virtual option is on our website. For information

about in-person worship, please send us a direct message via Facebook. If you are new to Quakers, you may have some questions about what you will experience at a Meeting for Worship. At the appointed time, we settle into worship in a circle of chairs, attempting to focus inwardly and to clear our minds from everyday busy-ness. We wait together in silence to hear the still small voice of God that is within each of us. We have no appointed leaders or ritualistic sacraments, and believe that the experience of God's power is equally accessible to each of us at all times. In the silence, you may experience a sense of comfort or direction, a clearer view of a problem, a special feeling of gratitude and praise, or a strong concern. These are usually private impulses, but sometimes individuals are led by the Divine Spirit to share a vocal message with the whole group. It is most effective if these messages are spoken so that all present can hear, and if a space of silence is allowed before another message is given. After an hour, the person taking care of the worship will rise from their chair. At that point, everyone else rises and all join hands in a circle to signify the end of Meeting for Worship. We then introduce ourselves and take time to share with each other any messages from our personal worship that seem important but didn't quite rise to speech during the silence. This sharing time can also include joys, sorrows and announcements. After sharing, attendees of in-person worship are invited to stay and enjoy informal fellowship and a light potluck meal. This is a good opportunity to get to know each other better and ask questions.. As Quakers, we believe that there is "that of God" in every person. Each person is directly responsible for their own relationship to God. Because each person's relationship with God is different and is always in a state of growth, we have no set creed. You will find a wide range of beliefs here, as well as people from many religious backgrounds. We are united by our desire to live a good life, with God guiding our lives. And, whatever our individual beliefs, we are expected to live by those beliefs every day. There should be no separation between what we do at Meeting and what we do in our lives outside of Meeting. We value Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality. Learn what you can hear in the silence. We would be happy to meet you and have the opportunity to share our spiritual paths, even if it is just for an hour.

11/10/2025

*** New information on In Person Meeting...***

Beginning the first Sunday of December 2025 and continuing on, Fox Valley Friends will meet In Person the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sunday of each month. All Sunday meetings will remain available on Zoom as well.

10/13/2025

Just a reminder:
Third Sunday is our monthly potluck Sunday.
Also, we begin discussing an interesting book (see below) at 10:00 for those who can make it. That is followed by Meeting at 11:00 and potluck lunch at 12:00.

The book is, Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times, by J. Brent Bill. There may be at least one extra copy on the Meeting bookshelf at the Mauthe Center.

For your consideration. Respectfully,
02/17/2025

For your consideration. Respectfully,

As I talk with Friends from all over the world, I’ve asked them to reflect on how they see Quakerism…

As the month of May begins, we offer up Quaker wisdom to take us through the month and beyond.
05/02/2024

As the month of May begins, we offer up Quaker wisdom to take us through the month and beyond.

22 track album

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4pTXvY8t5hfXPszi/?mibextid=Nif5oz
03/07/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4pTXvY8t5hfXPszi/?mibextid=Nif5oz

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them—and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.” (Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet”)

Here’s a poem with some questions worth loving and living. I read it last night as a way of reviewing my day, happy with some of my answers, not with others. Tonight, I'll read it again. If I live today with its questions in mind, who knows? Maybe tonight I'll find that I took at least small steps toward better answers...

P.S. Thank you so much for helping me celebrate my 85th birthday last week. Your kind words mean a lot to me…

[My 10 books are at http://tiny.cc/ll87wz & http://tiny.cc/jk87wz. The poem comes from Jeanne Lohmann’s 2003 collection, "The Light of Invisible Bodies." More at http://tiny.cc/3ii4xz. The illustration is by William Siegel, from "The Jumping-off Place" by Marian Hurd McNeely (1930).]

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/hCu34xwQbB51uUnx/?mibextid=Nif5oz
02/17/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/hCu34xwQbB51uUnx/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Heartbreak goes hand-in-hand with being human. If you love something or someone, at some point your heart will break one way or another. It’s how we hold our heartbreak that makes the difference in our lives and the lives of those we touch.

Here’s a poem about allowing heartbreak to move us toward loving more, not less. This is not an act of will, as if we could command ourselves to love when our world has turned to ashes. This is what the heart itself does as it goes on beating, “as if it knows/the only cure for love/is more of it.”

When our minds can’t make sense of life, it’s good to know that we have access to other sources of wisdom, imprinted in our bodies by millennia of human experience. Don’t override it with downward spiraling thoughts. As Mary Oliver wrote, “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

P.S. Heartbreak is a driver of our political as well as personal lives. A free copy of my 2005 essay, “The Politics of the Brokenhearted” is at http://tinyurl.com/52ejk7k9.

[More about Jan Richardson’s work at http://tinyurl.com/mubmd7hd and https://www.janrichardson.com. I learned about her thru Sophie Howarth’s newsletter: https://www.sophiehowarth.com.]

February 2024 Northern Yearly Meeting’s (NYM) E-News
02/07/2024

February 2024 Northern Yearly Meeting’s (NYM) E-News

Winter Interim Session will be held on Saturday Feb. 24th from 8:30am to about 4pm. We are reserving Sunday Feb. 25th from 1-4pm as back-up if we need additional time for our business. The session will be virtual only. Please register here so that you can be sure to get any updates and Zoom informat...

Address

Green Bay, WI
54311

Opening Hours

11am - 12pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Fox Valley Friends Meeting - Green Bay, WI Quakers posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category