Crossroads Friends Meeting

We shall gather for unprogrammed, waiting worship in the Name of Jesus Christ and in the manner of Friends on the dates and at the times listed, at our meetinghouse unless otherwise specified.  Visitors and new attenders are always welcome.  For those not familiar with unprogrammed worship, a small brochure is available (either at the meeting or on our website www.michiganquakers.org), offering general guidance and tips on “meeting etiquette.”  Additional materials on the Religious Society of Friends are also available at rise of meeting (and on the website).  Before rise of meeting on First Day [Sunday], the designated meeting closer reads aloud an Advice.  This is followed by framing silence before the handshake of fellowship which marks rise of meeting.

A time of fellowship follows meeting for worship.  On the second First Day [Sunday] of each month, following fellowship, we hold our meeting for business.  (Depending on other events, business meeting may be shifted to another week.)

On Fourth Days (Wednesdays) we hold a shorter Meeting for Worship followed by Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown.  

We will study Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister on First Day [Sunday] mornings, just before Meeting for Worship.

 Crossroads Newsletter in PDF Format

 A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas is our subject for First Day Faith Study.  We have a few copies available at the meetinghouse.

No Cross, No Crown by William Penn is our subject for Midweek Faith Study.  We have a few copies available at the meetinghouse.

First Day Meeting for Worship

4108 Menton, Flint MI 48507

Fifth Month

First Day, Fifth Month 05

[Sunday, May 05, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister        10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 01: Use vigilant care, dear Friends, not to overlook those promptings of love and truth which you may feel in your hearts; for these are the tender leadings of the Spirit of God.  Nor should any of us resist God’s workings within us, for it is His redemptive love which strives to show us our darkness, and to lead us to true repentance, and to His marvelous light.  “Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”  (Revelation 3:20)

First Day, Fifth Month 12

[Sunday, May 12, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister       10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM
Ministry & Oversight and Meeting for Business 12:00 Noon

Advice 02: Be faithful in maintaining your testimony against all war as inconsistent with the Spirit and teaching of Christ.  Live in the Life and Power that takes away the occasions of all wars and strife.  Seek to take your part in the ministry of reconciliation between individuals, groups, and nations.  Let the law of kindness know no limits. Show a loving consideration for all people.

Administrative Queries:

1. What new meetings have been established?  Have any meetings been discontinued?

2. Do parents take an active interest in the administration and quality of teaching of the schools which their children attend?  Is each Meeting making effective efforts to aid parents in the suitable religious instruction of their children?

3. Have the General Queries been read and deliberately pondered and answered in all our meetings?  Have the Advices been regularly read?  Is the best possible time chosen for their reading, suitable for deliberate consideration of them by all Friends and attenders for their individual, spiritual refreshment?

4. Are former minute books, all interment charts and all records of similar importance, stored in a suitable fireproof safe or vault?

5. Are our meetings for business regularly held; fully, and promptly attended?  Are they conducted in a loving and solemn concern to make concerted effort toward unity of spirit?

First Day, Fifth Month 19

[Sunday, May 19, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister        10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 03: Regard the taking of oaths as contrary to the teachings of Christ, and setting up a double standard of truthfulness; whereas sincerity and truth should be practiced in all walks of life.

First Day, Fifth Month 26

[Sunday, May 26, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister        10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 04: In your meetings for worship be earnestly concerned to enter reverently into communion with God. Come with minds and hearts prepared.  Yield yourselves up to the influence of the Divine Presence so that you may find the evil in you weakening and the good raised up.  God calls each one to the service of the meeting.  Be obedient and faithful, whether by word or silent prayerful waiting; and be ready to receive the message of others in a tender spirit.

Sixth Month

First Day, Sixth Month 02

[Sunday, June 02, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister        10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 05: Be on your guard, dear Friends, lest the love of pleasure take too strong a hold upon you.  Choose such recreations as are pure and healthful.  Let them be in harmony with your service to God and man; and in that service be ready at any time to lay them aside when called upon.

First Day, Sixth Month 09

[Sunday, June 09, 2019]
Faith Study: Samuel Bownas’ A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister        10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM
Ministry & Oversight and Meeting for Business 12:00 Noon

Advice 06: Endeavor to make your home an abiding place of joy and peace where the Presence of God is known and felt.  Seek to know an inward retirement, even amid the activities of daily life.  Make a quiet place in your daily life, wherein you may learn the full meaning of prayer, and the gladness of communion with your Heavenly Father.





Midweek Meeting for Worship

4108 Menton,
Flint MI 48

Fifth Month

 Fourth Day, Fifth Month 01

[Wednesday, May 01, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

 Fourth Day, Fifth Month 08

[Wednesday, May 08, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

 Fourth Day, Fifth Month 15

[Wednesday, May 15, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

Fourth Day, Fifth Month 22

[Wednesday, May 22, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

 Fourth Day, Fifth Month 29

[Wednesday, May 29, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

Sixth Month

 Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 05

[Wednesday, June 05, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM

 Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 12

[Wednesday, June 12, 2019]
Faith Study: William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown,      11:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:30 AM