College Park Quarterly Meeting (CPQM) is a quarterly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in northern California and northern Nevada (list).
News
Friends attending the 2024 fall quarterly sessions minuted their support for holding regional gatherings in place of the usual in-person winter quarter session in 2025. There will be a series of inter-generational regional gatherings in early 2025 hosted by the meetings listed below. If your meeting has not already received an invitation to save the date for your regional gathering, please contact the coordinator listed for your region.
Regional Gathering documents, including Overview, History, Planning, and Reports are on the Documents page.
- Chico Meeting hosted the Valley-Foothills Region on 1/18/2025 including, Davis, Delta, Grass Valley, Redding, Sacramento, and Visalia Meetings and the worship groups under their care. Contact Kathy Runyan: krunyan87 at gmail.com
- Redwood Forest Meeting will host the North Coast Region on 1/25/2025 including Appleseed, Humboldt, Mendocino, Napa, Ukiah Meetings and worship groups under their care. Contact Barbara Babin: b_babin at yahoo.com
- Strawberry Creek, Berkeley and San Francisco Meeting will be gathering on a date to be determined. Contact Heather Levien: heather at berkeley.edu
- Palo Alto and Santa Cruz Meetings will co-host the South Coast Region from 9AM-4PM on 4/12/2025 at Hidden Villa. This region includes, Central Coast, Live Oak, Monterey Peninsula and San Jose Meetings and the worship groups under their care. Contact Eric Sabelman: cpqmclerk at gmail.com
- Teens gathered at Reno Meeting on 1/18-19/2025 for a snowshoeing adventure.
- Children and teens will be welcome at all the regional gatherings. If you have specific questions about accommodations for children, you can contact CPQM Children’s Program clerk, Barbara Christwitz: bchristwitz at gmail.com
The Spring meeting of College Park Quarterly Meeting will be at Ben Lomond Quaker Center the weekend of April 25-27, 2025.
The Fall meeting of College Park Quarterly Meeting is planned for Ben Lomond Quaker Center the weekend of October 17-19, 2025.
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. The main purposes of the College Park Quarterly Meeting are to strengthen the life and fellowship of Monthly Meetings and other Friends groups in the northern portions of California and Nevada, to offer increased opportunities for worshiping together, and to consider spiritual and worldly matters of local or broader concern.
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.
CPQM Meetings and Worship Groups
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.
Friends Publications
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