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Basic Information

Meeting for Worship (unprogrammed):
10AM-11AM, First Days (Sunday)

Fellowship: 11AM-11:30AM

Program: 11:30AM-12:30PM

4405 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 931-5256
clerk@kcquakers.org


Penn Valley Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
MARCH QUERY: Meeting for Business PDF Print E-mail

How can we hold our meetings for business in the spirit of love, understanding and patient search for unity without becoming frustrated by differences of opinions or the pressures of time?
How do we respond when no one else in the meeting seems to hold the views that we do on an issue? How do we respond to a dissenting minority?
How do we share responsibilities among Friends in our meeting? How do we serve our meetings?

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FEBRUARY QUERY: Outreach PDF Print E-mail

Do we encourage inter-visitation within the Yearly Meeting and with other Friends?
What are we doing to share our faith with others outside our Friends’ community?
How do we speak truth as we know it and yet remain open to truth as understood by others?

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Penn Valley retreat plans PDF Print E-mail

The annual Penn Valley Friends retreat May 19-20 is shaping up to be a fun weekend, with lots of activities for indoors and outside. Hopefully we’ll have good weather to enjoy the beautiful grounds of the Hollis Center.

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Penn Valley Committees for 2012 PDF Print E-mail

Clerk: Shane Rowse

Recording Clerk: Marc Robinson

Treasurer: Jim Kenney

Assistant Treasurer: Brenda Funk

Associate Treasurer: Lori Morgan

Ministry & Counsel: Gary Marx, Shane Rowse,Shirley Scritchfield, Karin McAdams, Echo (Linda) Ray, Ronnie Lathrop,Marc Robinson

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Everyone Welcome! PDF Print E-mail

We'd love to have you join us for worship. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is not a closed community but a group of seekers like you.

Meeting for Worship: 10am-11am, First Days (Sunday)
Fellowship: 11am-11:30am
After Meeting Program: 11:30-12:30

Penn Valley Friends Meeting is an "unprogrammed Meeting." The Quaker worshipping community has traditionally been called a Meeting for Worship. The worship is "unprogrammed" because there is no order of service and we have no pastor or minister. These are practices that follow from the convictions of those who founded the Relgious Society of Friends in the seventeenth century.

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