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State of the Society Report to Northern Yearly Meeting, May 2007
Posted on May. 30, 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Document, State of Society
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 in […]
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When Death Comes to TCFM
Posted on Jan. 05, 2007 | Tagged as: Death, Document
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.
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TCFM Marriage Minute
Posted on Nov. 30, 2004 | Tagged as: Document, Marriage, News
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.
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Inclusiveness of Same Gender Couples: Oct. 1986 Minute
Posted on Nov. 27, 2004 | Tagged as: Document, Marriage
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
Posted on Nov. 05, 2004 | Tagged as: Document
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.
Meeting for Business
Posted on Aug. 18, 2004 | Tagged as: Business, Document, Newcomers
In this mutual exploration, there are disciplines which help us. Friends wishing to speak raise their hand. When the clerk recognizes them, they rise, and, when ready, speak their mind. If the clerk asks for silence, all Friends return to worship seeking understanding and openness; in this silence, one speaks only if led.
