Friends General Conference (FGC) serves Friends and Friends meetings in the United States and Canada. Visit our website at: fgcquaker.org

All FGC-affiliated meetings for worship are listed in this directory. They range from large meetings of 100 or more people to tiny worship groups of three or four. Unless otherwise indicated, all listed meetings and worship groups practice worship grounded in silence (unprogrammed worship).

Meetings identified as Pastoral have programmed or semi-programmed worship services, which may include prepared messages, Bible readings and hymns.

Unprogrammed meetings not affiliated with FGC are identified as Independent (generally universalist or Christian universalist), or Conservative (traditional Quaker, trusting in immediate guidance of the Inward Christ). Independent meetings are located primarily in the West Coast and Rocky Mountain states. Conservative meetings are found in Iowa and nearby states, Ohio, and North Carolina.

Pastoral meetings not affilliated with FGC are identifed in the notes field as FUM (Friends United Meeting), where Christ is acknowledged as teacher and Lord, or Evangelical (Evangelical Friends International), where Christ is acknowledged as Lord and Savior. For more information, click on the links provided.

Quakerfinder for Isolated Friends

In the first week of 2006, we started a new service for Isolated Friends. While there are over 1,000 Quaker meetings in the United States and Canada, many Friends and potential Friends are too far from any existing meetings. "Quakerfinder for Isolated Friends" is a registry of individual Quakers and seekers who are looking to meet each other - to start a worship group or just for correspondence and fellowship.

Once registered, users can search other nearby registrants. They can then contact any of them through our web-based email system. This system protects users' identity until they are ready to share it with their correspondent. A phone/mail message relay system is availablle free of charge to users in the US and Canada.

Because the service is just starting, there won't be many Isolated Friends signed up yet. More should be joining all the time so keep checking back. We will notify you by email when someone near you has joined.

If you have a nearby meeting we recommend you go there first. If there are no nearby results, then you can follow the link to the Isolated Friends registration page found at the top of the search results.

Problems? Questions?

This is a new service. Please email corrections@quakerfinder.org if you experience any problems or have helpful feedback for us.