Gathering for worship, fellowship and community service
Welcome
Friends Meeting of Washington (FMW) is a large Quaker community with members and attenders of diverse identities, backgrounds and understandings of faith. Our Meeting House, where we worship together, is located in Washington, DC just off Florida Avenue north Dupont Circle. All spiritual seekers are welcomed to join us as we gather for worship, fellowship and community service.
Meetings for Worship
All are welcome! Masking is recommended in indoor spaces. For more information, email admin@QuakersDC.org or call FMW’s office (202-483-3310).
Every Week
Sundays
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. In person in FMW's Library or join remotely by Zoom or phone (301-715-8592). Meeting ID: 395 231 896# Password: 738314
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. In person or join remotely by Zoom or phone (301-715-8592). Meeting ID: 979 505 413# Password: 706188. Childcare is available from 10:00 - 12 noon every Sunday in Decatur Place Room. First Day School and Young Friends (high school) 1st & 3rd Sundays.
6:00pm - 7:00 p.m. In person.
Wednesdays
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. In person.
Monthly
2nd Sundays 12:15pm. Monthly Meeting for Worship with Concern for Business. This is our community’s monthly meeting to discuss, discern and decide on matters of import and plan for the future. All are welcome in person or join by Zoom. These meetings are normally held on the second First Day (Sunday) of each month except July (third First Day) and August (no meeting). Special sessions may be called as decided by the Meeting or by the Committee of Clerks.
3rd Wednesdays 6:30pm – 7:30pm. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ LGBTQ Worship. In person.
Calendar
Announcements
To receive an email copy of Weekly Announcements (every Thursday), please email admin@QuakersDC.org
FMW Demands ICE Agents Stay Out of All Houses of Worship
Minute approved March 9, 2025
Reasonable people can disagree about many elements of the US government’s policies regulating immigration and welcoming refugees from other countries. Yet, Friends Meeting of Washington is guided by our belief that there is “that of God in everyone,” as well as the scriptural injunction from Leviticus 19:34, which says, “The foreigner who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the foreigner as yourself.” We are also deeply committed to the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, as well as articles 18 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which limit government intrusion into the free exercise of religion and assembly.
Friends Meeting of Washington therefore objects in the strongest possible terms to the Trump Administration’s reversal of the long-standing Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy barring raids by armed ICE agents into houses of worship to kidnap, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants and refugees. We fully support the legal challenges to this government overreach initiated by Friends General Conference, New York Yearly Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and Baltimore Yearly Meeting, along with many of our sibling organizations in the interfaith community. We also support the advocacy work being conducted on this issue by the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, along with interfaith allies. We encourage all our members and attenders to take part in such advocacy efforts when they can and share action opportunities with each other.
In addition, we support the FMW Peace and Social Concerns Committee's decision to set up a small working group to develop possible protocols for how Friends Meeting of Washington can nonviolently protect the rights of our members and attenders in the eventuality of an ICE raid at our own Meeting House. We look forward to considering their proposals in the near future.
Final Language as edited by Anti-Racism Support Group based on feedback received during 2/9/2025 Meeting for Business:
Minute in Support of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we hold firmly to our Testimony of Equality, which is the knowledge that there is that of God in every person. This truth calls us to honor the inherent dignity and worth of all individuals, knowing that when we face any person, we are looking into the face of God.
We see the belief in equality reflected aspirationally in founding documents of the United States, including the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are deeply troubled by recent Presidential Actions that deny the fundamental equality we as a nation and a faith are called to uphold.
Friends have long worked for justice, from opposing slavery to advocating for women’s rights and civil rights. We feel compelled to speak out against actions that perpetuate inequality. To remain silent would be to turn away from our shared responsibility to build a society where all can thrive.
In a distortion of the truth, the orders call out policies and programs meant to address historical racial, gender, and other injustices as “discriminatory.” The erasure of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer+ rights, including transgender identity, is especially inhumane.
We call on all people, and especially government legislators and administrators, to honor the American belief in equality for all people, regardless of their background, gender, immigration status, citizenship status, physical or mental abilities, cultural or racial identity, or beliefs.
Minute in Support of the AFSC-led Apartheid Free Communities
Pledge and Network
Brought to you by FMW’s Committee on Peace & Social Concerns
Agreed to at FMW Meeting for Business October 13, 2024
In light of our previous minutes supporting peace and justice in Israel/Palestine, and our specific commitment to “actively support an end to Israel’s occupation and support equal protections and rights for all people living under Israeli control and to commit to actions as meetings/churches until this reality is realized,” Friends Meeting of Washington declares ourselves an Apartheid-Free Community and pledges to join others in the interfaith Apartheid-Free Communities network convened by the American Friends Service Committee to end all support to Israel’s US-backed Apartheid regime so we can fulfill our commitment to seek a future of peace, justice, and equality for ALL in Israel/Palestine.
Seeking a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine - Approved by FMW’s Meeting for Business on July 21, 2024
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