Millville Friends Meeting

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.

We adhere to the beliefs that every person can directly experience God’s presence, and that the “Inner Light” exists within each person, making the external differences among humans irrelevant. Like all Quakers, we try to live our lives by the testimonies of peace, equality, integrity, and simplicity, and are greatly concerned with stewardship of the environment. We oppose war, racism, sexism, and religious intolerance.

Millville Meeting recently celebrated its 200th Birthday and has a history of continuous use. Descendants of early settlers who built the meetinghouse still attend. The meetinghouse is both informal and inspiring, with its long porch, ancient unpainted benches, and hand-hewn pillars. Yet this high-energy meeting community is contemporary; its members are drawn from across the Bloomsburg area.

Millville Monthly Meeting is part of Upper Susquehanna Quarterly Meeting, a vibrant rural outpost of Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Most of today’s Upper Susquehanna Quarter Friends originally came from other religious backgrounds and have found a new spiritual home in Quakerism. USQM has programs for young Friends that include weekend and week-long camping retreats, skiing, hiking and bicycling and canoeing trips, overnighters in museums like the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and programs that encourage spiritual and moral development. The Quarter sponsors programs for adults as well, gathering yearly for a weekend of camping, workshops on a variety of spiritual and social topics, dancing, singing and all manner of family fun. Classes are offered in Quaker faith and practice and a nine- month Spiritual Formation program that supports individuals in deepening their spiritual lives, and in finding companions along that journey.