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: The Concurrence and Unanimity of the People Called Quakers As Evidenced by Some of Their Sermons.  This midweek meeting is held at the home of Phil and Sharon Helms, 2485 Bogie Lake Road, White Lake MI 48386.

We will study Barclay's Apology in Modern English - edited by Dean Freiday on First Day [Sunday] mornings, just before Meeting for Worship.

 Crossroads Newsletter in PDF Format

 The Concurrence and Unanimity of the People Called Quakers as Evidenced by Some of Their Sermons, was first published by Andrew Sowle in London, 1694. The edition edited and with introductions by Patrick J. Burns and T.H.S. Wallace, and published by the New Foundation Fellowship (ISBN 0-978-0970137531)
is the one in use for Midweek Study.  We have a few copies available at the meetinghouse.

Barclay's Apology in Modern English, edited by Dean Freiday, and published by
The Barclay Press (ISBN 0-913342-69-6) is the edition we are using for First Day morning study.  We have a few copies available at the meetinghouse.

 Eleventh Month
First Day Meetings
4108 Menton, Flint MI 48507

  Eleventh Month 18
[Sunday, November 18, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

 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.

 Eleventh Month 25
[Sunday, November 25, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 07: Avoid and discourage any kind of betting or gambling, as well as commercial speculation of a gambling character.  Remember how widespread are the temptations to grow rich at the expense of others, and how apparently harmless indulgence leads often by degrees to ruin and crime.

Twelfth Month
First Day Meetings
4108 Menton, Flint MI 48507

Twelfth Month 02
[Sunday, December 02, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 08: Watch with Christian tenderness over the opening minds of your children.  Help them to understand the teachings of Jesus.  Seek to awaken in them the love of Christ, and through example and training in self-control, to bring them to obedience to the law of God in their own hearts, that they may be joyful and willing in his service.

Twelfth Month 09
[Sunday, December 09, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in
Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM
Ministry & Oversight and Meeting for Business 12:00 Noon

Advice 09: In consideration of marriage, remember that happiness depends on a deep and understanding love.  Seek to be joined in a common discipleship of Jesus Christ.  Ask guidance of God, desiring above all temporal considerations, that your union may be owned and blest of Him.  Consider the precious responsibilities of parenthood, and do not forget the help you may draw from the loving counsel of your own parents.

Fifth Query: Are we sensitive to the needs of those around us who may be in less fortunate circumstances? Do we prayerfully consider how we can share one another's burdens when the need arises? Do we counsel lovingly and prayerfully with those members whose actions in any phase of life give us grounds for concern?

Twelfth Month 16
[Sunday, December 16, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 10: Carefully maintain truthfulness and sincerity in your conduct, and encourage the same in your families.  In your style of living, in your dress, and in the furniture of your houses, choose what is simple, useful, and good.

Twelfth Month 23
[Sunday, December 23, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in
Modern English     10:00 AM
Meeting for Worship 11:00 AM

Advice 11: In view of the evils arising from the use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks, we urge all to abstain from using them, from offering them to others, and from having any part in their production, manufacture, or sale.  Do not let claims of “good fellowship” or the fear of seeming peculiar prevent you from standing by principles which you have conscientiously adopted.

Twelfth Month 30
[Sunday, December 30, 2018]
Faith Study: Barclay’s Apology in
Modern English     10:00 AM
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.













Eleventh Month
Fourth Day Meetings

2485 Bogie Lake Road, White Lake MI 48386 

Eleventh Month 14
[Wednesday, November 14, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and Unanimity of the People Called Quakers As Evidenced by Some of Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM 

Eleventh Month 21
[Wednesday, November 21, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and Unanimity of the People Called Quakers As Evidenced by Some of Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM

Eleventh Month 28
[Wednesday, November 28, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and Unanimity of the People Called Quakers As Evidenced by Some of Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM

  Twelfth Month
Fourth Day Meetings
2485 Bogie Lake Road,
White Lake MI 48386 

Twelfth Month 05
[Wednesday, December 05, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and
Unanimity of the People Called
Quakers As Evidenced by Some of
Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM

Twelfth Month 12
[Wednesday, December 12, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and
Unanimity of the People Called
Quakers As Evidenced by Some of
Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM

Twelfth Month 19
[Wednesday, December 19, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and
Unanimity of the People Called
Quakers As Evidenced by Some of
Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM

Twelfth Month 26
[Wednesday, December 26, 2018]
Faith Study: The Concurrence and
Unanimity of the People Called
Quakers As Evidenced by Some of
Their Sermons   1:00 PM
Meeting for Worship 1:30 PM