Quakers invite all to join in developing a world of peace, social justice and equality of all persons through efforts guided by non-violence and reconciliation. We too search for more depth in our spiritual lives, opening ourselves to our creator and striving to order our affairs by a guidance that is beyond us, felt within us. Friends offer no theological formula or creedal statement. The Society took form in 17th century England in the midst of great controversies among Christians. Today we use a diversity of words in expressing experiences which emanate divinity including a vocabulary from our earliest history which conveys best for us the immediacy and tenderness we find in encountering God.
Friends strive to respect the integrity in personal beliefs.
Freedom is essential to the search for truth and it is in living in accord with our truth that we find our discipline. Every human being can know God directly and can find and share truth and love from that source. Out of this understanding have grown the practices which characterize Friends. They are described in the book of Faith and Practice for the yearly meeting of which the monthly meeting is a part. You already know or will find out that, as an attender, you can take part in the life of the Meeting without being a member.