College Park Quarterly Meeting (CPQM) is a quarterly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in northern California and northern Nevada (list).
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College Park Quarterly Meeting
254th session May 17-19, 2024
Ben Lomond Quaker Center
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Theme: The Causes that Unite us
A year ago our focus was on the divisions among Friends and how to overcome them. Now we will explicitly examine what we have in common – across large and small Meetings, new and experienced, old and young Friends. There are clues to our connectedness in our State-of-the-Meeting reports: We all value the experience of Quaker worship. We all want Quakerism in Northern California and Nevada to survive and thrive. Let us strive for unity on our plans for thriving into the future.
There will be concurrent on-site programs for Teens and Children. A formal invitation with instructions for registration and details of the program will be sent out soon.
Useful forms:
- CPQM Tuition Assistance
- CPQM Teen Program Handbook
- Teen Program Packing List
- Minor Medical and Consent to Participate Form
We encourage all Friends to join us for the business of the quarterly meeting.
About Friends, Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Meetings
Wikipedia has information about Quakerism. The following brief introduction is intended to simply explain College Park Quarterly Meeting’s context in the Society of Friends.
There are unprogrammed and programmed Friends meetings for worship. Unprogrammed Friends meetings gather in silence for worship, and programmed meetings usually have a pastor and have worship similar to Protestant services. Local meetings, which have weekly meetings for worship, are called monthly meetings because they hold a meeting for the purpose of business once a month. They are organized by geographic region into larger quarterly meetings, which are organized into yet-larger yearly meetings. CPQM is a gathering of unprogrammed monthly meetings in northern California and northern Nevada (list of meetings). It is a part of Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM).
Another quarterly meeting in PYM is the Southern California Quarterly Meeting, which includes meetings and worship groups in southern California and southern Nevada. Pacific Yearly Meeting also includes meetings in Hawaii and Mexico that are not part of a quarterly meeting.
The yearly meetings for programmed meetings in this area are Evangelical Friends Church Southwest and Western Association of the Religious Society of Friends, which includes churches in Berkeley, Whittier, and Bakersfield, California.
List of CPQM Meetings
| Apple Seed Berkeley Carson City Worship Group Central Coast Chico Davis Delta Friends House Worship Group Fresno Grass Valley Humboldt Lake County Worship Group Live Oak Mendocino Monterey Peninsula |
Napa Palo Alto Redding Redwood Forest Reno Sacramento San Francisco San Jose San Mateo Worship Group Santa Cruz Soledad Worship Group Southern Humboldt Worship Group Strawberry Creek Ukiah Worship Group Visalia |
Institutions
Quarterly Meetings also create institutions to serve the wider world of Friends and their communities. College Park Quarterly Meeting was involved in establishing:
- Sierra Friends Center, Nevada City, CA.
- Ben Lomond Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA.
- Friends House, Santa Rosa, CA.
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