A discription of a Quaker Meeting?
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Quaker Meetings\nA more or less comprehensive listing of Yearly, Monthly and Quarterly Meetings organized by location of meetinghouse. An even more comprehensive listing of Western US Meetings. \n\nThe following list of meetings is intended to be canonical. If you attend a meeting and it's not listed below or the information is incorrect, please send it in. I try to list enough and only enough information so that people can find a meetinghouse on a First Day without needing to contact anyone. If you find no meeting close to you, there may be one that is not listed. Contact the closest meeting and ask them, see Bill Samuel's Guide to Finding Meetings, or consult QuakerFinder, a listing of unprogrammed FGC Friends in North America. \nAll are welcome at Friends Meetings. If you've never attended before, please feel free to attend any Friends Meeting listed below. Friends worship in different manners depending on their tradition, so be prepared to do as others around you are doing. Stand, sit, sing or be silent, God will be your guide!
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Call and ask them. They should have a list of all the meeting times and places.\nJanette
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Quakers, Buddhists, Unitarians, and Atheists
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Almost immediately it's all too easy.\n\nI'm a Quaker.
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First meet should be in a religious place like Church.Second in a park or garden.Third at movie.Fourth at restaurant or club .Fifth at Pub............................Rest ask after fifth meeting
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Probably. They're all over. The best resource I've found for locating such groups is given below. Go there and search their database. They list just about ALL such meetings and groups. I'm sure you'll find one there. Good luck. :-)
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This is the season for church bazaars.  So I would recommend going to a church and picking up a bulletin (usually found on a table in the front entrance of a church).  Which usually lists any upcoming functions for that church and any local ones.\n\nYou can also try calling the offices.  And asking your neighbors.
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You are welcome to attend services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church).  In fact, our church has a website to help you find a meeting near you: www.mormon.org.\n\nTypically, church services are three hours long, and are made up of three meetings.  The main meeting is called Sacrament Meeting.  This is the meeting where we take bread and water in remembrance of Jesus Christ, as well as listen to sermons.  The other meetings are comparable to Sunday School classes in other churches.\n\nOne sacrament meeting a month is called "Fast and Testimony Meeting".  This is usually on the first Sunday of the month.  During this meeting, no pre-planned sermon is given.  Instead, people in attendance are allowed the opportunity to bear testimony about the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  \n\nDuring the other sacrament meetings each month, the leader of the congregation (we call him a "bishop") or his counselors typically ask members of the congregation to give short sermons on different topics.  Typically the members of the church will base their talks on scriptures and personal experiences.  Examples of such topics are faith, repentance, baptism, how to love your neighbor, and so forth, although the topic can be basically anything assigned by the bishop or his representative.  Occasionally the topic is left up to the member who is preparing the talk as well.  \n\nSacrament meetings also involve singing of hymns and often musical performances by members of the congregation as well.  The meeting typically lasts about an hour and ten minutes.\n\nI hope you do take the opportunity to attend services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!
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Try looking around on umc.org--it's a big site, bound to be something!
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coming together (No pun intended)
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Hi bellbree,\n\n I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings. \nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion. \n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most other church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem. \n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized Mark W. Reinhold from the wanted poster at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects as the tension went out of Mark's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?" \n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!" \n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until Mark was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness in Mark for a long, long time. \n\nI can't say for certain that Mark W. Reinhold was apprehended and locked up because, I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you bellbree, that you find a sense of closure to this bad episode of life. \n\n-Bryce
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try assembly of God or maybe vinyard websites i know ,I'm partial,its hard to be unbiased.look in you local paper in the religion section if they have one
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I never heard of the book (if that's what it is), but I do know something about Copp's Hill.  It's a very old cemetery in Boston, dating back to Puritan times, probably before 1635.  So that might tell you something about the book.
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Merry meet and merry part, and merry meet again.\n\nEnjoy the site. Follow your instincts, not what you have been taught, but what you know.
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Try visiting an Episcopal or Unitarian church. I liked Methodist too. Just visit on Sunday and see what you get from the different places. In fact, visit them all with an open mind. It is very enlightening about human nature.
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Why don't you ask the Fellowship of Inner-city Word of Faith Ministries? They would probably have the most up to date imformation, seeing as they are running it, and would probably be happy to give you that information, seeing as yo uare a member.
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Hebrews 10:24, 25 "And let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as YOU behold the day drawing near"\n\nOn various occasions, large crowds assembled before Jesus Christ, realizing many benefits, as in the case of the Sermon on the Mount. (Mt 5:1–7:29) While these were not like specially arranged assemblies, at times they lasted long enough to make necessary the feeding of the congregated multitudes, a circumstance that Jesus met with the miraculous multiplication of food. (Mt 14:14-21; 15:29-38) Often Christ gathered his disciples and gave them spiritual instruction, and after his death his followers met together, as on the day of Pentecost 33 C.E., when the holy spirit was bestowed upon such assembled ones.—Ac 2:1-4.\n\nIt was the custom of early Christians to meet together, generally in small groups. However, sometimes at their gatherings “quite a crowd” would assemble. (Ac 11:26) Jesus’ half brother James found it appropriate to give spiritual Israelites counsel against showing favoritism toward the rich at a public gathering (Gr., sy·na·go·ge´) of the congregation.—Jas 2:1-9.\n\nImportance of Assembling. The importance of taking full advantage of Jehovah’s provisions for assembling to gain spiritual benefits is emphasized in connection with the annual Passover observance. Any male who was clean and was not on a journey but who neglected to keep the Passover was to be cut off in death. (Nu 9:9-14) When King Hezekiah called inhabitants of Judah and Israel to Jerusalem for a Passover celebration, his message was, in part: “You sons of Israel, return to Jehovah . . . do not stiffen your neck as your forefathers did. Give place to Jehovah and come to his sanctuary that he has sanctified to time indefinite and serve Jehovah your God, that his burning anger may turn back from you. . . . Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and he will not turn away the face from you if you return to him.” (2Ch 30:6-9) Willful failure to attend would certainly have indicated a forsaking of God. And, while such festivals as the Passover are not observed by Christians, Paul fittingly urged them not to abandon regular assemblies of God’s people, stating: “Let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near.”—Heb 10:24, 25\n\nThe Bible lays down principles of upbuilding associations (1Co 15:33; Heb 10:24, 25; Pr 5:3-11; 13:20)\n\nGatherings for the worship of God and a consideration of his law were important in the congregation of Israel. (De 31:12; Ne 8:1-8) Similarly, meetings for the worship of Jehovah and a study of the Scriptures are an essential feature of the Christian congregation of God, the writer to the Hebrews admonishing the recipients of his letter not to be forsaking such gathering of themselves together. (Heb 10:24, 25) Activities in the synagogues of later Jewish history included the reading and teaching of the Scriptures, the offering of prayers, and the giving of praise to God. Such features were carried over into places of Christian assembly, though without the ritualistic accretions that had eventually developed in synagogue services. In the synagogue no sacerdotal class was set apart, sharing in Scripture reading and exposition being open to any devout male Jew. Comparably, no clergy-laity or similar division existed within the early Christian congregation. Of course, neither therein nor in the synagogue did the women teach or exercise authority over the men.—1Ti 2:11, 12.\n\nJesus’ disciples followed his footsteps in Christian educational work . They not only preached the good news of God’s Kingdom everywhere but also taught those who would listen. (Ac 2:42) They, like