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Permalink Reply by Liz Opp on 5th mo. 11, 2011 at 1:06am

B - Minneapolis Meeting has an early MfW on First Day that is unprogrammed. I been there!

E - Laughing Waters Friends Worship Group, in Minneapolis. One of two places where I worship. We have laid down our ad hoc affiliation committee after more than a year of discernment. We simply don't have unity to affiliate with a Conservative YM or a Liberal one.

Worth a mention - Laughing Waters references Scripture fairly regularly, is LGBTQ inclusive, and conducts business in the manner of Friends every other month. Some perceive us to be Christ-centered, and that is certainly welcome and addressed, though I would say we are God/Spirit-centered, not exclusively Christ-centered.

Question - any interest in meetings that still answer queries monthly?

Blessings,
Liz Opp, The Good Raised Up

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Permalink Reply by C. Wess Daniels on 5th mo. 11, 2011 at 1:07pm

I was under the impression that semi-programmed could (potentially) have prepared messages but also included longer time-periods of open worship? That it sits somewhere in the middle of the other two options?

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Permalink Reply by Richard B. Miller on 5th mo. 11, 2011 at 5:24pm

Our monthly meetings are not all alike but North Carolina Yearly Meeting conservative for the most part fits C. 

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Permalink Reply by peggy parsons on 5th mo. 11, 2011 at 8:44pm

Thanks Friends - keep it coming. I am only updating the list that is on my profile page on FB, as I have this question out on many sources and it is getting complex. But very interesting.

 

Wess, You are right that my def for semi-programmed is restrictive, but this is because I believe that semi-programmed with brief prepared messages is so well-received that my list would be hundred of meetings long. I am looking for the outliers here.

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Permalink Reply by C. Wess Daniels on 5th mo. 12, 2011 at 12:04am

That makes sense.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanna Roettger on 5th mo. 13, 2011 at 10:54am

I would like to make a correction. I attend Old Town Friends Fellowship. We are actively seeking affiliation with both Baltimore Yearly Meeting and North Carolina Yearly Meeting-Conservative. We see ourselves as convergent, Christ-centered, and LGBT inclusive (that is very important to our group). We do fit into catagory C. I look forward to hearing more about this.

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Permalink Reply by peggy parsons on 5th mo. 14, 2011 at 2:47pm

Thanks Suzanna - I will make that correction.

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Permalink Reply by peggy parsons on 5th mo. 14, 2011 at 2:48pm

So - Another category

 Please name EFI churches that have turned their benches, or forsaken benches, to adopt a circle or four square traditional Quaker seating arrangement (or anything close) intentionally to de-emphasize the pulpit and make physical the Quaker testimony of equality.

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