Fall Creek Friends Meeting

A nest of doves in the hanging planter on the front porch. We hear them cooing during worship.

Today we will have two Meetings for Worship. First at 10:30 followed by lunch, and again at 1:00. Anyone is welcome for any part of the day.

Today’s Daily Quaker Message. Subscribe for free: DailyQuaker.com/subscribe

Our children are given to us for a time to cherish, to protect, to nurture, and then to salute as they go their separate ways. They too have the light of God within, and a family should be a learning community in which children not only learn skills and values from parents, but in which adults learn new ways of experiencing things and seeing things through young eyes. From their birth on, let us cultivate the habit of dialogue and receptive listening. We should respect their right to grow into their own wholeness, not just the wholeness we may wish for them.

Citation: Elizabeth Watson, 1980
Quaker feminist theologian

Know a young person who is pro-peace? Meet with them and make sure they have gathered documentation that supports their beliefs. Under new laws, draft registration in the US will be automatic starting in December. This means that youth must work even harder to document their nonviolent beliefs. Be informed. Buy this resource guide and share it with folks in your meeting.

Available at QuakerBooks; revised in 2025.

https://quakerbooks.org/collections/new-arrivals/products/conscientious-objection-is-this-for-you-discerning-a-claim-and-documenting-it-with-selective-service

We still need two paid staff or volunteers for the Youth Program at OVYM annual sessions. If you know of someone who has experience with middle youth or teens and is free June 17 - 21, we would love to talk to them.

Join this online workshop series with other people of faith who are working for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and liberation. This program will be offered in two parts. The initial workshop will be offered two times, once with intentional space for q***r identities on June 25, and once with intentional space for cis/het identities on July 9. All attendees will join together for the second part on August 15th.

Register for the workshop on the 6/25 at https://pendlehill.org/calendar/tending-the-soil-q***r-identities/2026-06-25/

Register for the workshop on 7/9 at https://pendlehill.org/calendar/tending-the-soil-cis-het/2026-07-09/

Today, Saturday, May 23rd, is the last day to register online for Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting annual sessions. You can register at Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting.

Christianity Was Never Capitalist The Biblical and Historical Case for Christian Socialism

Earlham Summer 2026 3 sessions. 10 class options. 1 unforgettable summer.