Amesbury Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Beautiful building full of lovely people

Amesbury Friends Meeting is a welcoming place. Being part of this group fills my spirit and my heart. We are a group of diverse thinkers who really listen to each other. In the quiet space of Silent Meeting, I find refreshment from the world and inspiration for the coming week.

I have been a member of this Meeting for nearly three decades, and my children enjoyed being part of the community when they were young. We offer a quiet spiritual congregation who also knows how to fight injustice, how to have fun, and who openly supports our fellow humans of all colors, abilities, and inclinations.

Ever have a day that changes your life? That happened to me on August 27, 2017. I found my way to the Amesbury Friends Meeting. Not my first Quaker Meeting but my first time there. In various groups, over the years I've participated in Quaker practices of discernment, nonviolence, consensus decision making, and social activism. What I found that morning last August touched my soul – a community of profound equality, and a sacred space to share (mostly in silence). I love the Quaker model of no creed and no hierarchy - everyone on equal footing, with equal access to a direct experience of the Divine. After worship I had a lovely conversation with almost everyone in attendance - some I already knew and others so welcoming and friendly. I sat in the pew behind where John Greenleaf Whittier sat when he was a member. I’m writing this 9 months later and I know I have found my true spiritual home.