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College Park Quarterly Meeting (CPQM) is a quarterly gathering of unprogrammed Monthly Meetings for Worship of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Northern California and Northern Nevada region (list).

Events

The Quarter meets on a regular schedule.

  • Spring Session: Fifth Month 16-18,2008 at Ben Lomond Quaker Center
    Full announcement: (doc)   (pdf)
    Registration form: (doc)   (pdf)

    We will examine the range of issues and beliefs that can generate polarization within our local and regional communities, and practice careful listening to those who are not just like we are, although they are Friends, too. Our dimensions of difference include these axes: young & old, well-off & poor, Christ-centered & universalist & nontheistic, new-to-Friends & seasoned members, gay & straight, man & woman, activist & contemplative ... and more
    Parental Consent form for minors (doc)
    Medical Release form for children & teens programs (doc)

    • About Friends, Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Meetings

    Quaker Center has information about Quakerism. The following brief introduction is intended to simply explain College Park Quarterly Meeting's context in the Society of Friends.

    There are unprogrammed and programmed Friend (Quaker) meetings for worship. Unprogrammed Friends meetings gather in silence for worship, and programmed meetings usually have a pastor and have worship similiar to Protestant services.

    Local meetings, which have weekly Meetings for Worship, are called Monthly Meetings because they hold a Meeting for the purpose of business once a month. They are organized by geographic region into larger Quarterly Meetings, which are organized into yet-larger Yearly Meetings.

    CPQM is a gathering of unprogrammed monthly meetings in Northern California and Northern Nevada (list of meetings). It is a part of Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM). Another quarterly meeting in PYM is the Southern California Quarterly Meeting, which includes Monthly Meetings in Southern California, Southern Nevada, Mexico and Central America.

    The Yearly Meeting for programmed meetings in this area is Evangelical Friends Church Southwest.

    List of CPQM Meetings

    (Addresses and other relevant information can be found here and here)

    Apple Seed
    Berkeley
    Bishop Worship Group
    Central Coast Preparative Meeting
    Chico
    Davis
    Delta
    Fresno
    Grass Valley
    Humboldt
    		 Lake County Worship Group
    Marin
    Monterey Peninsula
    Mendocino
    Napa-Sonoma
    Palo Alto
    Redding
    Redwood Forest
    Reno
    Sacramento
    		 San Francisco
    San Jose
    San Luis Obispo Preparative Meeting
    Santa Cruz
    Southern Humboldt Worship Group
    Strawberry Creek
    Ukiah Worship Group
    Visalia
    West Marin Worship Group

    Institutions

    Quarterly Meetings also create institutions to serve the wider world of Friends and their communities. College Park Quarterly Meeting was involved in establishing:

    Other Friends Centers include:

    Friends Publications

    Links

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    Last updated 13 September 2007