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: George Fox’s Journal.  We will post the current starting page number on the website below.

We will study The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman on First Day [Sunday] mornings, just before Meeting for Worship, beginning in First Month.

  Crossroads Newsletter in PDF Format

 Fox's Journal, edited by John Nickalls is the edition in use for Midweek Study.
It's a FREE download at https://archive.org/details/journalofgeorgef00foxg
in various formats, including PDF and Kindle

The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, edited by Phillips P. Moulton, is the edition we are using for First Day morning study, beginning in First Month.  We have a few copies available at the meetinghouse.

Fifth Month

First Day,

Fifth Month 20
[Sunday, May 20, 2018]
Faith Study: John Woolman’s
Journal     10:00 AM     [page 214}
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice  12: Members are affectionately reminded of the importance of keeping correct and clear accounts pertaining to all outward affairs.  It is important to make wills, or revisions of them, while still in health of mind and body, and free from any feeling of resentment.  Delay, or neglect to secure competent legal advice, may cause some unexpected hindrance in the proper execution of one’s bequests.

Fourth Day,
Fifth Month 23
[Wednesday, May 23, 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal
3:30 PM     [page 671]

First Day,
Fifth Month 27
[Sunday, May 27, 2018]
Faith Study: John Woolman’s
Journal     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice  13: Make it your aim to promote the cause of truth and righteousness, and to spread the Kingdom of God at home and abroad.  Be ready to take your part fearlessly in declaring His message and in witnessing to His power.

Fourth Day,
Fifth Month 30
[Wednesday, May 30, 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal
3:30 PM

Sixth Month

First Day,
Sixth Month 03
[Sunday, June 03, 2018]
Faith Study: John Woolman’s Journal     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 14: Live in love, as Christian brethren, ready to be helpful one to another.  Rejoice together in the blessings of life; sympathize with each other in its trials.  Know one another as fellow-workers in the things that endure.  Watch over one another for good, praying that each may be a living member of the Church of Christ, and may grow in the knowledge of the love of God.

Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 06
[Wednesday, June 06, 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal 3:30 PM

First Day,
Sixth Month 10
[Sunday, June 10, 2018]
Faith Study: John Woolman’s Journal     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM
Ministry & Oversight and Meeting for Business 12:00 Noon

Advice  15: Remember the special opportunities for refreshment of spirit and for service which the first day of the week affords; use them faithfully, as befits the Friends of the Master.

Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 13
[Wednesday, June 13, 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal 3:30 PM

First Day,
Sixth Month 17
[Sunday, June 17, 2018]
The day known to the world as Fathers’ Day
Faith Study: John Woolman’s Journal     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice  16: Be diligent in the reading of the Bible and other spiritually helpful writings.  Gather daily in your families for worship.  Such times have a special value in bringing little children especially into the experience of united worship, and so preparing them for the larger meeting for worship, as they learn in the silence to bow to the power of God.

Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 20
[Wednesday, June 20, 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal 3:30 PM

First Day,
Sixth Month 24
[Sunday, June 24, 2018]
Meeting for worship will be held in unity with Stillwater and Chestnut Ridge Monthly Meetings in Barnesville, OH, during the General Gathering of Conservative Friends.

Fourth Day,
Sixth Month 27
[Wednesday, June 207 2018]
Meeting for Worship 3:00 PM
Faith Study: George Fox’s Journal 3:30 PM