High Point Friends Meeting

09/05/2026

SUNDAY - HIGH POINT FRIENDS MEETING

Greetings Friends!
Below is a note from Karin regarding the "Lightly Programmed Meeting for Worship" to be held tomorrow morning at 10AM in our Haworth Chapel.

"Lightly Programmed Meeting for Worship" - 10AM

Good morning Friends.
We will gather tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Haworth Chapel for "Lightly Programmed Meeting for Worship."

There will be time for welcome, announcements, joys and concerns, and a few short readings before we settle into waiting worship together.

I’ve pulled the readings from a short meditation written by Matthew Fox in 2022 in which he discusses perspectives on “Beloved Community”. In it, he shares quotes by Howard Thurman, Walt Whitman, and Martin Luther King Jr. All of these men were Quaker raised, Quaker influenced, or what we might call, "Quaker adjacent”.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to livestream this week. But, a link to the article is below. Friends at home are invited to join us in consideration of these perspectives. Those joining in person are also welcome to “read ahead”, although it is certainly not necessary to do so.
Here is the link to the article - https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/06/06/howard-thurman-and-mlk-jr-on-community/

I hope you are all enjoying this lovely, albeit muggy morning, and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Warmly,
Karin Heller
Director of Intergenerational Ministries & Community Engagement

Theologian Howard Thurman speaks often and eloquently of the primacy of community.   He perceives the struggle between good and evil as being very much a struggle between community and the lack of it.  “The loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable,” he warns us. Thurm...

08/30/2026

We're just starting September this week but we want to let folks know about our 70th Anniversary celebration coming up in October at High Point Friends Meeting. If you have past connections, present connections, or would like to consider future connections with High Point Friends Meeting, we invite you to join us! More information will be coming out over the coming weeks!

08/30/2026

High Point Friends Meeting

08/23/2026

BACK TO SCHOOL BLESSING PRAYER by Karin Heller (written by her and offered in our Meeting for Worship this morning - August 23)

Heavenly Father,
we give thanks for this joyous late summer morning, and this opportunity to be with one another in prayer and worship.

Lord, we thank you for our spiritual home, High Point Friends Meeting;

We ask that you help us to love one another with integrity, honesty, and forgiveness, and that we might offer a soft place to land for those within our meeting, school, and our larger community.

Today God, we offer a special prayer for our teachers, educators, administrators, and school boards;

Please give them courage for difficult days, wisdom for integrity-filled leadership, and nourish the heart within them that still loves to learn.

We also pray for the students. We ask that you bless them with confidence and perseverance. Give them strength to work through difficulties, and overcome academic and personal challenges. Teach them to seek, and find joy and excitement in learning, and guide them in building meaningful and supportive relationships.

God, we trust you with our children. We pray that you will soothe our anxieties as parents, grandparents, and caregivers. Please guide us as we support our children’s learning journey. Give us strength to manage busy schedules, patience during challenging moments, wisdom as we make decisions and provide guidance for our children. Help us to foster loving and open communication with our children and strengthen our family bonds. Grant us joy as we watch our children thrive and grow, and gratitude for the blessing of education.

Giver of Wisdom, we ask that you make our places of learning sanctuaries of curiosity and friendship and safe harbors to learn and grow. May they foster a positive, inclusive, and explorational culture of learning, so that we might be reminded that learning is a gift and a lifelong, spiritual delight.

Please give us all inquiring and discerning hearts, the gift of joy and wonder in all Your works, and let us know we are guided and held by your love and the love of our community here at High Point Friends School and Meeting.

In your name we pray.

Amen

08/22/2026

SUNDAY - HIGH POINT FRIENDS MEETING

Greeting Friends!
Here's what's happening tomorrow at High Point Friends Meeting...

9:00 AM - UNPROGRAMMED MEETING FOR WORSHIP
- We will offer our silent/contemplative worship in our Meeting Library for those interested in experiencing this form of Quaker worship. It is a simple, silent space intended to create a space for deeper reflection and inward listening. All are welcome!

9:30 AM - Coffee & Fellowship will be offered in Ragan Fellowship hall - there will be coffee, tea, and pastries.

10:00 AM - PROGRAMMED MEETING FOR WORSHIP - Tomorrow in our meeting for worship we will have a special focus called our "Back to School Blessing". We have invited any students, family members, and faculty/staff that would like to join us for meeting for worship. We will hear words of welcome from Head of School, Rob Kelley, as well as the Clerk of our School Board, Stephanie Strawn. Karin Heller will offer a special Prayer of Blessing. The message is titled "Be Here Faithfully" and we'll also have special music by our choir. It's a way for us as a Quaker community to celebrate our common witness as well as our partnership as a school and Quaker Meeting. We will livestream on our High Point Friends Meeting page.

11:00 AM - ADULT FORUM / CONVERSATION - We'll continue the conversation around the message as we explore the theme of living an undivided life and what that means for us to live faithful lives as well as lives of integrity. It's always a good way for everyone to bring their questions, curiosity, wonderings, and experience.

08/18/2026

Hi Friends...this is happening this Sunday (August 23) as we celebrate our partnership with High Point Friends School and offer prayers and blessings for the students, families, and faculty/staff for the upcoming school year. We're looking forward to a celebratory worship gathering!

08/17/2026

May we each discover courage in the moments we need it the most...

08/15/2026

SUNDAY - HIGH POINT FRIENDS MEETING

Greetings Friends,Here's what's happening tomorrow at High Point Friends Meeting...

9:00 AM -UNPROGRAMMED MEETING FOR WORSHIP will be offered in our Meeting Library for those seeking a silent space and "waiting worship" as experienced by Friends. This worship is intended to offer a space for quiet reflection as well as sharing as Friends feel led to share.

9:30 AM - COFFEE & FELLOWSHIP will be offered in Ragan Fellowship Hall. Friends are invited to linger and reconnect with Friends before 10AM Meeting for Worship.

10:00 AM - PROGRAMMED MEETING FOR WORSHIP - Tomorrow's prepared message / sermon is titled The Simplicity of the Listening Life as I continue my mini-series on "A Simple Faith for a Complicated World". It's a noisy and information-based world that we all live in and there is often much "hearing" but are we actually "listening"? And are we actually listening to our own lives and to the world and people around us? Listening does take intention and effort but it can often yield greater clarity and understanding. We'll also take time for our sharing of Joys & Concerns as well as Open Worship where we can all listen more deeply. We will livestream on our High Point Friends Meeting page.

11:00 AM - ADULT FORUM/FORMATION CONVERSATION- We'll do a bit of a deep dive into the act of listening and look at various levels of listening and how it might make a difference in our own understanding of one another as well as our own self-awareness. Maybe Jesus's greatest miracle was simply his ability to listen and help folks feel seen and heard?

As we gather in-person and online, we invite Friends to hold these Friends in God's love and light - Keith Lambeth, Phillip Peace, Joyce Wolford, Betty Briles, Linda Everhart, Lynda Wagoner- These are Friends in our meeting that are in continued recovery related to health issues and recent surgeries. If you have a prayer need and would like to have it shared tomorrow, you can reach out to me (Scott) at [email protected]

Blessings!
Scott