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State of the Society Report to Northern Yearly Meeting, May 2007
For a number of years, the community of Twin Cities Meeting (TCFM) has been struggling to understand and accept the joys and difficulties of being a large meeting. Slowly, in fits and starts, through faith and doubt, we are coming to terms with what we are. One Friend spoke of the “blessings of bigness,” and [...]
When Death Comes to TCFM
This packet is based upon “When Death Comes to Meeting” by Pacific Yearly Meeting, as republished in Friends Bulletin in January 1975, and reprinted by Pacific Yearly Meeting in 1980. The main author of this version is Betsy Raasch-Gilman, who added some of her experiences and resources as a hospital chaplain to the packet as well.
Draft Statement: Theological Diversity within Twin Cities Friends Meeting
Update as of Jan. 2009 Friends have traditionally rejected the use of creeds, largely from a conviction that no statement of belief can accurately describe or reflect divine reality. There is another compelling reason for us to reject creeds. Over time the spiritual and theological diversity among Friends has become far broader and deeper than [...]
TCFM Marriage Minute
At a Quaker wedding, two persons join together with their families and friends in a Meeting for Worship. Standing together in the presence of God and the assembled community members, they give themselves to each other, dedicating themselves to a lifelong partnership in the care of each other and to the service of God and humanity. They ask for God’s blessing and the blessing of the Quaker community upon their lives.
Inclusiveness of Same Gender Couples: Oct. 1986 Minute
Twin Cities Friends Meeting, joyfully recognizing the diversity of sexual orientation within our religious community, affirms the goodness of committed, loving relationships that endure, are unselfish, and that provide mutual support and tenderness.
TCFM Peace minutes
In this time of war, we the members and attenders of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting state our belief in peace. In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we believer that there is that of God in everyone.
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