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Welcome! We are a congregation of Quakers who gather to worship and connect with each other every week in at the historic Millville Friends Meetinghouse.

Millville Meeting Welcomes You!

🌞 Millville Friends Meeting welcomes and embraces all peace-loving spiritual seekers. We are committed to creating a community where people of all races, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities and expressions, sexual, romantic, or affectional orientations, immigration or refugee statuses, marital or family structures, economic situations, educational backgrounds, and physical, mental, or neurodiverse abilities are affirmed and valued. Each person’s spiritual journey is sacred. You are welcome here.

🌈 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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Calendar of Events

For links to join this Zoom meeting, contact us.

26 April 2025 (Saturday)

6:00 PM Greenwood Friends School Annual Silent Auction and Gala

27 April 2025

10:00 AM In-person worship
11:10 AM Tips for personal investing with our values and integrity

1 May 2025

7:00 PM World Day of Prayer Observance in Bloomsburg (see below for details)

4 May 2025

10:00 AM In-person worship
11:10 AM Adult First Day Program TBA

17 May 2025

9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Plant Sale, Bake Sale, and Tours of the Meetinghouse. The Education Committee is holding its annual plant sale. Look for extra plants and perennials in your garden that you can donate. Leftover transplants of vegetables, flowers, and herbs are always welcome. There are spare pots at the meetinghouse if you need them. If you want to

donate potted and labeled plants, they may be delivered on May 16 from 9 am to 1 pm.

Other Quaker Events and Announcements

- World Day of Prayer Observance in Bloomsburg. Interfaith Prayers for Compassion and Understanding May 1, 7:00 pm, Bloomsburg Town Park Pavilion (nearest to the parking lot on W. Fort McClure Blvd). Representatives of a variety of faiths and world views will lift up prayers and share music. All who are seeking understanding, compassion and peace, with any or no religious affiliation, are invited to attend. This observance is sponsored by the Cultural and Religious Alliance (CARA) part of the Association for Inclusion, Respect and Equity (AIRE).
- Peace Vigil at the Bloomsburg town fountain every Wednesday at 5:00 pm. Now is a critical time to let Quaker voices speak for peace.
- PYM Connect. This is a NEW ONLINE Quaker platform intended to be a welcoming space for individual Friends and Friends groups and Meetings to come together, exchange ideas, and support one another.

Millsville Friends Meeting first erected in 1795' the current building was constructed in 1847.

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.

Extract from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting book of Faith and Practice.

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 in 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.

Meeting for Worship

Every Sunday at 10:00 am

What is Meeting for Worship?

At least once a week, the members of that meeting will gather for worship. The exact form of worship can vary, depending on the community’s spiritual orientation, as we’ll see in a bit, but silent worship is a core element of just about any Quaker meeting. (Quaker.org)

Most First Days (Sunday), after meeting for worship, we host an Adult First Day (AFD) activity, discussion, social time, or outdoor activities. Once a month, on the second First Day, we gather to attend to business before meeting for worship. We resume the business meeting around 11:10 if there is still unfinished business on the agenda. See the schedule below for details. If you have questions about meeting for worship or any of our activities, please contact us, and we will follow up with an email.

We hold online Meetings for Worship on Zoom twice monthly, usually on the first and third Sundays of each month. We meet at 9 am and worship for 30 minutes. Anyone is welcome to join us. To attend for the first time and receive the Zoom link, contact the Clerk.

Monthly Meeting for Business

Second Sunday of each month at 9 am, continuing at 11:15 after worship.

For links to join this Zoom meeting, please feel free to contact us.

Financial Donations

Checks made out to Millville Monthly Meeting, sent to Millville Monthly Meeting Treasurer, 453 Black Run Road, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. (FYI: We do not accept credit cards or other digital payments.) Persons interested in donating goods or services should contact the Clerk via the Contact Us form.

About Millville Meeting

The first Millville Quakers worshiped in a log building constructed in 1795. In 1847 a new Meeting House was built with brick and continues to be the place where we gather.

Today the Meeting House is still a hub of activity and a place to learn, grow, and meet with friends. In addition to our meetings for worship, we also provide regular educational programs, activities for children, and social times.

Would you like to learn more about our meeting? Feel free to contact us.

The Millville Friends Meeting is part of a larger collection of meeting houses from the surrounding geographical area, called the Upper Susquehanna Quarterly Meeting. This collective of meetings and meeting houses comprises Elklands, Huntington, Lewisburg, Millville, North Branch, Pennsdale, State College, Towanda and Wellsboro.

Want to know more about Quakers? Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Faith & Practice includes advice on procedures within the faith, membership, current practice for conducting meeting business and numerous quotations from Friends on belief, worship, concerns, leadings, and testimonies. Also check out our Quaker Resources page.

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