Philadelphia Quaker organizations

Merion Meeting within the Religious Society of Friends

Merion Friends Meeting participates in Haverford Quarterly Meeting, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, which is part of Friends General Conference.

The other Meetings in Haverford Quarter include

Many of our members and attenders have been or continue to be involved with international and national level Quaker organizations as an embodiment of the Peace and Stewardship Testimonies, such as

the Nobel peace laureate American Friends Service Committee 



Earth Quaker Action Team  - nonviolent action for a just and sustainable economy

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There are several resources to learn more about Quakers locally, nationally, and internationally.

Pendle Hill Quaker Center offers classes, speaker series, workshops, and retreats in Media, PA. Pendle Hill also has an active publishing arm.

QuakerSpeak, a Quaker YouTube channel. Produced by Friends Journal, there are interviews with Friends of all different backgrounds asking them the core questions of our faith.

Quaker Information Center The QIC serves both the Quaker community and the general public in its quest to increase awareness about Friends and Quaker institutions.

Friends Journal publishes articles, poetry, letters, art, and news that convey the contemporary experience of Friends. 

Young Adult Friends Listserve The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) Young Adult Friends (YAF) program usually hosts events, and holds retreats quarterly

The Henry J. Cadbury Library of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting a lending library with 23,000 titles

Friends Tract Association an association of members of the Society of Friends with a special sense of unity in the concern for distribution of Quaker literature

Fellowship of Friends of African Descent (or on Facebook) formed out of a desire that Black Quakers know each other. 

Friends World Committee for Consultation encouraging fellowship among all branches of the Religious Society of Friends
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