Reading Quakers (Reading Monthly Meeting)

We are a diverse group of families and individuals who strive to be a loving, nurturing, and involved community. We encourage each person to explore his or her own understanding of faith and a relationship with God.

Our Meeting for Worship (aka church service) is a time of quiet reflection when each member opens their hearts and minds to the message of God and the possibility of speaking that message aloud before the other attenders. Quakers believe that "there is that of God in everyone" which means that there is no intermediary needed (no ministers or priests) because we all have a direct connection to God. The benches in the Meeting House (church building) are arranged in a rectangle, all facing the center of the room and attenders may sit wherever they like.