Appoquinimink Quaker Meeting

05/24/2026

Cover photo shows our amenity: a blue A-one porta potty.
Much appreciated!

05/22/2026

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05/22/2026

SUMMER MONTHS WORSHIP THIRD SUNDAYS JUNE-SEPT.
10 A.M.

05/20/2026

05/18/2026

Our Salem Oak sprouting tall in the burial ground. Friend in the photo for scale.

05/14/2026

Article shared with Appo f/Friends on May 3rd. "The old Drawyers Church, the centennial anniversary of which was celebrated on Sunday last, 1873, seems not to be the only relic of antiquity in the neighborhood of Odessa. Seven years after the Drawyers [Presbyterian] Church was built, or in 1785, the Friends in the same neighborhood undertook and completed a house of worship of their own. In those days the Society of Friends was more numerous than in later years, but in 1827, when the Hicksites separated from the Orthodox Friends, a division was created here, and the congregations have been small ever since, dwindling down in later years almost to a single individual. John Alston is now about the only person who attends meeting in the old meetinghouse. A few years ago, John Hunn worshipped with him, and these two made up the congregation; but they received occasional visits from Abner Alston, Wm. C. Alston, Richard Thomas, Jonathan S. Hand and a few others. But by the death and removal of the others John Alston is alone left to keep up the meetings--a duty which he faithfuly performs. Through summer's heat and winter's cold he betakes himself twice a week to the old meetinghouse--on Sundays and Thursdays--and there in silent communion he spends his hour. He is very punctual in his attendance, and save in the extremest unpleasant weather he may always be found within the, to him, dear old walls. The meetinghouse is located at the west end of Odessa, on the road to Middletown. Like old Drawyers, it wears its age very well, and seems well fitted to stand for another century.
Extracted from Wilmington Daily Commercial (Wilmington, Delaware) Wed. Sept. 17, 1873.

John Alston died a year later, Sept. 25th, 1874. Buried at Appoquinimink Friends Meeting next to his young daughter, Lydia Cowgill Alston."

05/03/2026

Attenders and Friends honoring a Quaker farmer, John Alston. May 3, 2026.

05/03/2026

May 3rd the dedication of the John Alston plaque.

01/30/2026

From Faith and Practice

31. "Conflict between science and religion comes when people see things in a partial way, thinking that part of the picture is the whole picture. We need to listen to what both science and religion can tell us in order to understand the whole. Science can help us understand many aspects of reality, and in particular see the fine-tuning in physics that allows our existence. That understanding can be very precise, and it can make a huge impression. Our broader experience can give us a relation to spiritual issues with many dimensions. In terms of the beauty of things, I get that by walking in the mountains every Saturday and looking at birds, trees, waterfalls, flowers, clouds, the sea, and all the rest of it. In terms of religious experience, it is what many Quakers have found in the gathered Meeting for Worship.
Consequently, I like to talk about “intimations of transcendence”—of perceptions of a kind of existence lying behind the surface appearance, which gives a grounding for meaning, morality, and purpose."

- George Ellis, 2006