Quaker-Columbia Friends Meeting

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Review

We gather at our meetinghouse in a lovely woods to begin "waiting worship" at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings (Friends traditionally called it "First Day.") If you've not been among Quakers before, they'll give you a little card suggesting what you might expect in that next hour's adventure. The whole time might be quiet, or several Friends might feel moved of The Spirit to rise and share something, which they call "Spoken Ministry." A suitable period of reflective silence follows each message which may be given. Sometimes it is a poem, or song, a prayer, or a question. But