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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Friends are invited to attend the 260th session of College Park Quarterly Meeting. Register here.
This session is divided into two parts:
- ONLINE BUSINESS MEETING on the morning of Saturday, April 11. All Friends, especially designated representatives of Monthly Meetings, are welcome. Register to receive the zoom link and final agenda.
- IN-PERSON GATHERING AT BEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER, Friday to Sunday April 24 to 26. All individuals, families and visitors in Monthly Meetings and Worship Groups of the Quarter are welcome. Routine business will be kept to a minimum. There are two times for interest groups, so you do not have to choose only one (or you can take a hike or nap instead). There will be programs for children and teens, and a meeting space for Young Adult Friends. Be sure to register at least a week ahead.
Final schedules and arrangements for both parts will be worked out by the CPQM Planning Working Group meeting by Zoom at 4 pm on March 19 and April 2 & 16. Monthly Meeting representatives should bring issues for the business agenda. Clerks of children’s and teen programs should bring plans and needs of their programs. Anyone is welcome to suggest interest group and lunch table discussion topics.Questions and suggestions: contact Presiding Clerk Eric Sabelman (CPQMclerk@gmail.com) or Assistant Clerk Stephen Myers (cpqmasstclerk@gmail.com).
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.
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