Haverford Friends Meeting welcomes you. Our Meeting for Worship is held every Sunday morning from 10:30 to 11:30. All are welcome to attend. We provide Nursery Care for young children and First Day (Sunday) School for older children during Meeting for Worship. We have a social time with light refreshments after Meeting. Please join us.
Meeting for Business
Friends’ decision-making is rooted in the spiritual oneness of a religious community. We reject majority rule for the higher goal of reaching decisions in unity, through distinctive attitudes developed by Friends over the centuries. Our process is democratic in the sense that everyone is encouraged to participate. However, it also goes beyond democracy in that it does not rely solely on human will or ability. Participants are expected to put aside personal desires and allow themselves to be led by a Guide beyond the self.
Although reasoned argument and lively debate may often play a role in Friends’ decision-making, they are useful only to the extent that they are the expressions of spiritual leadings.
The goal of Friends’ decision-making is a Sprit-led sense of the meeting -- a crystallization of the search for clarity on the topic under consideration. Even in the face of strong difference of opinion, that goal is achievable when there is spiritual unity.
