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Friends Writing Together allows us to indulge our creative selves and let words pour from our deepest places. What arrives may be a funny or poignant memory, a work of fiction, new lyrics or a poem, often surprising us with where we … Read more
#FreeThem All – Let’s re-think America’s prison obsession Like the thought-provoking “Defund the Police” campaign, AFSC next week asks that Friends give attention to young African-American activists’ campaign to reverse America’s world-leading mass-incarceration and to fundamentally change U.S. prisons titled #FreeThem All. Commemorating the … Read more
Anne Arundel Connecting Together (ACT) is conducting a virtual listening session concerning e-learning this fall. We are each asked to respond, as we are led, to the following comments and questions. Please share your (or their) stories as well, if you are … Read more
BYM’s Annual Sessions went online this year, with around 350 Friends participating, which included 80 first-time attenders! We gathered over two weeks in late July for an initial retreat, business sessions, worship sharing, Junior Yearly Meeting, listening sessions on being … Read more
75th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: On August 6-9, people around the world will commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with vigils and demonstrations highlighting the need for nuclear disarmament. The Peace … Read more
Young Friends attending First Day School are learning about Quaker Testimonies this year. Learning about the Peace Testimony included discussions and children’s books about refugees. The Young Friends are embroidering their view of a child who is a refugee on … Read more
Hear success stories from Chesapeake Bay and around the world. Discover what’s working in conservation and sustainability, and what it may take to scale up those efforts to a global level. <a href=”https://serc.si.edu/visit/eveninglectures” target=”_blank”>Smithsonian Environmental Research Center</a>
In the last week of March (3/23-30), Annapolis Friends Meeting will team up with Magothy United Methodist Church in Pasadena to provide shelter for the homeless through Winter Relief, a program of Arundel House of Hope. AFM volunteers provide … Read more
Quaker Holiday Market was held at Annapolis Friends Meeting on 7 December 2019. With the help and generous support of multiple committees, the Annapolis Friends Meeting community and a dedicated return clientele, Quaker Holiday Market was able to clear $9,650 … Read more
Friend Patti Robinson led a spirit-filled Meeting for Learning on December 6th. She presented the birth stories in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke and how these reflect the believes of these early Christian communities. With some history, some understanding … Read more
Friends have been hard at work setting up the many donations we have received over the past several months! There is something for everyone: from vintage furniture and household treasures, toys for all ages, gently used clothing items… and great … Read more
Please join to pressure our leaders to take bold action on the climate crisis: 2-5pm every Friday through the end of 2019 Bring signs and enthusiasm for change. If you are interested in carpooling from Annapolis Friends Meetinghouse please send … Read more
Save the Date! Our annual Holiday Market is coming up and donations have already started arriving: Quaker Market Showcase. For more information about Quaker Markets, click here. This year proceeds will benefit Fridays for the Future, the youth led mobilization … Read more
Members from Annapolis Friends Meeting sponsored a table at the 30th annual Kunta Kinte Festival honoring and celebrating the perseverance, education, and cultural heritage of Africans, African Americans, and Caribbean people of African descent. Quakers shared with festival attendees our commitment to … Read more
A Kenyan style, programmed Quaker Meeting for Worship is held at 2 pm on the second Sunday of each month at Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore. Whether you’re familiar with the Kenyan style of Quaker worship or just curious … Read more
Our Spring Market was held at Annapolis Friends Meeting on 4 May 2019. In addition to fellowship, outreach, and the opportunity to simplify our lives by passing on items we no longer need, we also learned about and helped to … Read more
Enabling our immigrant neighbors to find the help they need to stay in their homes and jobs locally is an opportunity Quakers might want to seize. The Annapolis Immigration Justice Network (AIJN) is doing a fabulous job of providing legal … Read more
For more than a year, members of ACT have conducted a grass roots listening campaign to find out what one thing persons in our county would change if they could. Both Affordable Housing and Gun Violence were dominant issues. Now … Read more
Wes Jordan will be leading us Sunday morning in a discussion of Non-Theism and the Religious Society of Friends.Part of the discussion will be framed by an article Phil Favero sent Wes titled “Quakerism and the New Story”. Non-Theist Friends … Read more
Friends gathered at the Meetinghouse on April 20th for our annual Spring Work day. What started out as a unpredictable day proceeded to be warm sunny and a celebration of the spring season. With the assistance of the weather, most … Read more
We are starting to receive donations of furniture, household appliances, clothing and more for our Quaker Spring Market on May 5th! We will showcase a selection of the flea-market treasures on this web page: Quaker Market Showcase If you would … Read more
The Quaker Market Committee’s discernment led us to the following choices for disbursement of Quaker Spring Market 2019 funds: The first $250 will be awarded to AFM’s Young Friends for their discernment. Of the remainder, the external 75% will be … Read more
Feb. 3rd – It is the 25th day of Young Friend Kallan Benson’s silent vigil at the Annapolis Statehouse. She has crocheted around 500 butterflies and handed out over 200. Her green lifeline–the scarf she adds to each day is … Read more
Friend Francis Wayne will co-facilitate a Basic Alternatives to Violence weekend workshop on March 8-10 at the men’s side Patuxent Prison. If you would like to participate, send email to webmaster@annapolisfriends.org. For more information about the program, check out these websites: … Read more
For several years, Annapolis Friends Meeting has partnered with Magothy United Methodist Church in Pasadena to help with Winter Relief, a volunteer program that provides overnight shelter for the homeless in North County and in Annapolis. The men and … Read more
Annapolis Friends Meeting’s Quaker Holiday Market took place on Saturday, 1 December, from 9 to 2 pm, providing opportunities to purchase delicious food and flea market treasures, paperwhite bulbs and other plants, olive oil from Bethlehem,and handcrafted items. Live music … Read more
Save the date – Holiday Market Dec. 1, 2018! For more information about our twice-a-year Markets, click here. This year we have many furniture items for sale which you can see here.
Climate Stewards of Greater Annapolis hosts COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations … Read more
The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) in Anne Arundel County became Anne Arundel Connecting Together (ACT) on October 4th with 1,100+ attending from numerous faith groups and NGOS. Annapolis Friends brought over 1/3 of its congregation to take part in the … Read more
On October 17, 2018, Carol A. Brantley, age 71, of Annapolis, MD, formerly of Roselle, NJ passed away peacefully at home. After graduation from Hillsdale College, Carol held executive positions at Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company before founding Swanbridge … Read more