🌈 LGBTQIA+ Welcome Statement

At Millville Friends Meeting, we publicly recognize that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people have faced systemic exclusion, judgment, and harm—especially in religious communities. In light of this history, we affirm LGBTQIA+ people as full and valuable members of our spiritual community. Your presence, leadership, and gifts are cherished. You are welcome here. 

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We cherish our Millville Meeting community and welcome you to become a part of it. 

We share our joys and concerns. We strive to really listen to each other – the first step in building strong bonds among us. 

Our worship, social times together, shared discernment of what we are called to do, work within Meeting, service and action in the world, all strengthen ourselves, the Meeting and the wider world. 

We welcome children and their families as part of our community. We encourage friendly conversations (with parent approval) between our adults and children. We strive to be a welcoming place for persons of all ages. 

When a member or attender is in pain, distress, hardship, or at a personal crossroads, we welcome them to reach out to any of us. We hold them in our thoughts, and seek to stay in touch. Our Meeting’s Spiritual Care committee is especially ready to help. These Friends also can assist in forming a clearness committee (a Quaker tradition mentioned above) to listen carefully to a person’s concerns, and patiently explore options and resources.  

If you have any questions about Quakers or about Millville Meeting, please Contact Us or ask any Friend in person.  

Meeting for Worship

10:00 am every Sunday

What is Meeting for Worship? 

Across the world, Friends (Quakers) worship in many ways—but silent worship is central to nearly every meeting. At Millville Friends, we call this time Meeting for Worship. 

We begin in silence, waiting for the Spirit to guide us.
Anyone may speak if they feel genuinely moved to share a spiritual message—standing or remaining seated as they choose. 

Some Meetings for Worship are mostly silent; in others, several people may speak. Either way, there’s often a deep sense of being gathered together and holding one another in prayerful presence. 

After about an hour, a Friend signals the rise of Meeting—the close of worship. We then greet one another, introduce visitors, and share brief announcements. 

Following a short break, we offer an optional Adult First Day session or fellowship time. These sessions may include personal reflections on a query or a discussion of a community or social concern. 

Please see our Plan Your Visit page for more information. 

Our Community Life

From the beginning, Friends have recognized the importance of being in community. As early Friends struggled to follow God’s will, the Friends community provided spiritual support for their discernment of that will and material support for their families when they were imprisoned for their faith. Today, Friends continue to seek to be faithful, and their community continues to provide discernment and care. 

Though Friends meetings vary in the range and nature of their activities, all meetings strive to offer a sympathetic and welcoming community in which people can share the joys and challenges of daily life. Friends meetings also offer discreet, confidential, and loving support when needed, such as when a member feels a call to service or faces a life transition. In particular, the meeting may form a clearness committee to assist the individual in sorting out what to do.  The meeting may also refer the individual to other resources when support beyond what it can offer might be beneficial.

Our Quaker Faith

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) believe that a spark of the Divine exists in all people, and is to be honored. 

Together we seek the spiritual presence that Quakers may call the Divine, God, Spirit, Truth, Inner Light, Inward Teacher, Living Waters, or other terms. That presence is beyond words, yet reveals itself to all who listen.  

Together we strive to act with compassion, care, love, and respect for all persons. 

Together we seek personal spiritual growth, within a diverse, just, inclusive, and loving community where all feel safe, valued, and cared for. 

Together we work toward peace, social justice, equality, and care for our earth and all its inhabitants.

Our guiding principle is love.

-Extract from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting book of Faith and Practice.

Millville Friends Meeting was first erected in 1795. The current building was constructed in 1846.