Germantown Friends Meeting

Germantown Friends Meeting Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Welcome to Germantown Friends! Join us for worship! Philadelphia PA, 19144.

We're a community of friendly Quakers located in the Northwest section of Philadelphia. We hold meetings for worship by Zoom as well as in person for vaccinated and masked folks. Email us at [email protected] before 5 p.m. Thursday, if you would like the Zoom link for Sunday morning worship. When: Meeting is every Sunday from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, with time to share joys and concerns after

meeting. Our meeting house is located at 47 West Coulter St. Useful links:
http://gmm.gfsnet.org/wordpress (This is our Meeting's website, which includes a link to our weekly bulletin, the Bee.) https://www.pym.org (This is the web site of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, which we are part of. This site has valuable information on Quaker practice and programs.) http://www.pym.org/young-friends (Youth programs of our Yearly Meeting)

07/12/2026

We're so here! Pictured at Friends General Conference Gathering is Incubator fellow Kelly Crouch from Friends Meeting of Washington.

07/12/2026

Gathering is tomorrow! Thank you to Friends Service Committee for sponsoring the 2026 Gathering of Friends. AFSC works for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world. They join with people and partners worldwide to meet urgent community needs, challenge injustice, and build peace.

Brian Blackmore of AFSC shares: “The Gathering offers an opportunity where Friends can develop a sense of unity with one another toward protecting communities from harm, resisting injustices, and building a world free of violence, inequity, and oppression. At the Gathering, Friends discover and discern how they can take collective action, despite the vast geographies and distinctions between Yearly Meetings.”

If you are combating despair, AFSC staff remind folks: “Action is the antidote to despair.”

AFSC’s website shares more about how Friends can partner with AFSC to stand in public witness. It also shares worship opportunities, information on divestment from fossil fuels, and more on their work in Gaza. Follow them on Facebook, Bluesky, or Instagram. And find AFSC’s table this year at the Gathering!

https://afsc.org/friends-engage

07/12/2026

WORKSHOP in three sessions: August 10 | August 13 | August 17
7:00 to 8:00 PM ET.
Join online with Zoom from anywhere or attend in person at Durham Friends Meeting in Durham, NC. A collaboration of QREC, Quaker House of Fayetteville NC, and Durham Meeting.
Flyer to share in comments.
https://quakerrecollaborative.org/workshop-conscientious-objection

07/12/2026

Joe Volk presents the LEYM 2026 Plenary talk entitled "Joyful Resis...

07/12/2026

Petition to Vanguard to stop bankrolling polluters signed by 30,188...

07/12/2026

Members of the religious group have been outspoken about the Trump administration's anti-immigration tactics.

07/12/2026

"I got close enough to a condemned man to hear his song." Bryan Stevenson shared a story of being a law student and visiting a man in prison. The man was on death row. Stevenson's job was to tell the condemned him: You will not be killed in the next year.

He and Bryan Stevenson stayed talking for three hours. As time went on, the guards grew mad at Stevenson for not leaving. But they couldn't take it out on Mr. Stevenson. So they began roughly slamming chains back on the arms and feet of the condemned man. They dragged him and shoved him. They began to drag him down the hall, his chains clanking down the hallway.

Then the man began to sing. He sang a hymn. Stevenson said: "When you hear the melodies and harmonies -- when you hear the songs that God wants you to hear -- it changes your life."

He added: "There is power in proximity."

Stevenson spoke to a packed room on Thursday, July 9 at the FGC Gathering. He received a standing ovation from the crowd, both before and after he spoke.

https://www.fgcquaker.org/fgcprograms/the-gathering/explore-the-gathering/

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47 West Coulter Street
Philadelphia, PA
19144

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+12159512235

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