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The Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (OYM) was established on October 12, 1812, by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. At the time the Ohio Yearly Meeting included most of the Friends meetings West of the Allegheny Mountains. The first OYM yearly meeting was on August 14, 1813 at Short Creek, with Horton ...
Sermon 128: Free Grace - Romans 8:32, Bristol, 1740 Sermon 129: Cause and Cure of Earthquakes - Isaiah 10 :4, first published 1750 Sermon 130: National Sins and Miseries - 2 Samuel 24:16, St. Matthew's , Bethnal Green , preached on Sunday, 12 November 12 1775 "for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who lately fell, near ...
In 1995, the Interfaith Center at the Presidio was founded with "a multi-faith Board". The center is a San Francisco Bay Area "interfaith friendship-building" that welcomes "people of all faiths". The center is committed to "healing and peacemaking within, between, and among religious and spiritual traditions".
Evangelical Friends Church International (EFCI) is a branch of the Society of Friends yearly meetings (regional associations) located around the world. This branch makes up most Evangelical Quaker meetings from the Gurneyites .
After anyone speaks, several minutes are allowed to pass before anyone else speaks, to allow the message to be considered carefully. Friends (members of the Religious Society of Friends) do not answer or argue about others' messages during meeting for worship. Many unprogrammed meetings follow worship with a time for participants to share.
Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Ornamentation, spires, and steeples are usually avoided. [citation needed] When Quakers speak of a "church," it generally refers to the persons of the worshipping community, rather than the building itself. [citation needed]
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[26] [27] Anglicans and Catholics in parts of the United Kingdom such as Sunderland, are offering Ashes to Go together: Marc Lyden-Smith, the priest of Saint Mary's Church, stated that the ecumenical effort is a "tremendous witness in our city, with Catholics and Anglicans working together to start the season of Lent, perhaps reminding those ...