Friends (Quakers) believe that every individual has a spark of the divine within.
When we gather for worship, we sit in silence, tending to that spark and expecting a sense of holy presence.
Anyone may be moved to offer a vocal message out of this spiritual experience.
Worship is unique in a Quaker Meeting - when I sit with our members and attenders, it feels like a circle of love and acceptance.
-Kathleen
The silent, expectant waiting I share with others in Quaker meeting for worship, continues to be one of the most potent and humbling group experiences in my spiritual journey.
-Robert
Meeting matters to me because this is where I go to be closer to God and to accept the invitation to go deeper into my spiritual life within a community of fellow seekers.
-Lynn
We are a welcoming and affirming spiritual community of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). We are committed to nurturing and appreciating all the gender identities, sexual orientations, and racial identities present in our community.
We welcome individuals and families of all ages and people from a variety of religious or non-religious backgrounds. Quakerism has its historic roots in Christianity, and today there are both Christians and non-Christians among us.
We acknowledge that Cambridge Friends School, where we worship as Fresh Pond Quaker Meeting, and the surrounding towns where we live, are on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people, whose name was appropriated by this Commonwealth. We further recognize our responsibility, which we are only beginning to understand, to decolonize our thinking and habits as we seek to stand in right relationship with the Indigenous People of this land.