Tacoma Friends (Quakers), an unprogrammed meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and member of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, is a community of seekers. Join us for your spiritual journey into the oneness of faith, community, and the Earth.

Meeting for Worship begins every Sunday at 10 am. We offer blended meetings (in person and via Zoom) every week except for the first Sunday of the month, which is in-person only. Zoom sessions open around 9:45 am and remain open until after the Second Hour activity. Between Worship and Second Hour we have an informal time for snacks and visiting together.

To join us on Zoom, use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82463527967

Tacoma Friends has the practice of offering advices and queries during the second Sunday worship hour each month. Advices convey wisdom gathered from the inward experience of Friends trying to live faithfully in the Light.  Queries challenge us to turn inward and nurture faithfulness as a foundation for every thought and action.

May 10th Advice and Query – We Are All Ministers

Ministry is a motion of Love and a response to both internal and external needs. We are all called to ministry, and there are many occasions when we can minister to one another in the Life and Light.

Ministries of caring, support, and counsel quietly and persistently work among us. These seek to meet the physical, social, and spiritual needs we all have and lead to deepening our mutual life in the Spirit. Inviting someone to lunch after meeting, making a friendly phone call, regularly visiting a Friend descending into dementia, opening our home to someone recovering from surgery, arriving before meeting for worship to open the meeting house and turn on the heat in preparation for worship: all are occasions of ministry. We may be called by love to any number of duties. When a duty is performed through love, it is a ministry.

Lastly, there is a continuing ministry in our deportment in daily life, how we live out our testimonies in the world. Each one of us is a witness to Truth, found in Love, which is the fundamental ministry.

Remember that our simple presence can be a ministry – at a bedside or at a protest.

Query – How do we minister to each other, offering and receiving advice and support in a spirit of love and humility?

During worship, children are invited to attend First Day School to explore God’s Love through free play, imagination, song, stories, art, and more. The theme for May is Environmental Stewardship.

May 10th Second Hour – Meeting for Business

Our decision-making process invites us to seek the unity that comes from being collectively led as Spirit speaks to “that of God” in each person. We will hear what committees are doing and plan for future actions in the community. All are welcome to participate in this discernment.

Contact us: tacomafriendsmeeting@gmail.com