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Welcome!  Millville Friends Meeting gathers for worship each Sunday at 10am–please join us! All you need is a waiting heart, an hour to sit with a gathered community, and an appreciation of the spirit of God moving in the midst of a faithful people. All are welcome. Most weeks a “first day school” discussion follows worship. Children attend the first half of meeting with the adults and then adjourn to their own first day school program.

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The Friends community at Millville Meeting is contemporary, high-energy, and socially involved. Our members are drawn from diverse backgrounds and from across the region. Meeting members are active in community services, including the local food bank, Task Force on Racial Equity, and Community Mediation Service. This is a meeting where Friends take care for one another so that everyone, youthful and elderly, is included. The meeting helps support an excellent school–Greenwood Friends.

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Who Are Quakers..?

Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers, or Friends, believe that all people have the same access to God and that God’s Inner Light shines through each of us. Quakerism is rooted in Christianity; however, today’s Quakers are united in a close religious community of faith which springs from many different traditions and beliefs. Quaker Meeting for Worship is simple. Friends gather at their meetinghouses in silence and await God’s word and guidance. One or more worshippers may break the silence to share an inspired message of hope or joy or thankfulness—or a pressing problem or concern. Friends listen carefully and are mindful and accepting of the messages, with an openness to the Spirit from whence they sprang.

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To Be a Friend

This is a place
To be still
To be alone
If you will

To be a part
Of everyone
To be a daughter
To be a son

To be silent
Or to speak
To be a shepard
Or a sheep

To be a story
Being told
From the young
To the old

From the old
To the young
We are stories
Being sung

In this place
To be still
We all gather
If you will

To be gentle
To be kind
To be peaceful
In our mind

To be the river
That never ends
Forever learning
To be Friends...


 
A gift on Mother's Day 2010 to Millville Friends from Deirdre Roan Kirby. “I thank you all for the wonderful inspiration of silence and peace and sincere goodness that I feel when I am here. I was a Quaker without a meeting for 40 years. I was blessed to have my path lead to Millville.”  (c)2010 Deirdre Roan Kirby, Fortress Hill Farm, Hope, NJ.

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