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Meeting for worship: Sunday 10:00 a.m.
We meet in the Creekside Bldg., 1701 Ellis St. in Bellingham, WA.
Directions:
- If coming from the north on I-5, take State St./Ohio St (exit 254) onto Ohio St and continue about a half mile to Ellis St (one block past Franklin St). Turn left on Ellis St for less than two blocks and the Creekside Bldg will be the last building on your right.
- If coming from the south on I-5, take the Iowa St. exit (254) and turn left onto Iowa St. Continue about 3 blocks to N. State St (one block past King St) and turn left. In just over a block turn right onto Ohio and continue 3 1/2 blocks and turn left onto Ells St (one block past Frankin St). In less than two blocks, the Creekside Bldg will be the last building on your right.
ATTENTION: At last check, MapQuest and Google Maps have separate errors. Please note that while Ellis St runs into N State St just north of York St, one cannot turn left from N State onto Ellis from the south, nor turn left from Ellis onto N State from the south. Instead, continue north on N State St, turn left on Franklin St, left on Kansas St, and left on Ellis St. (From the north one CAN make a sharp right turn onto Ellis from N State.)
Childcare provided.
Map here.
Mailing address: PO Box 30144, Bellingham, WA 98228-2144
Telephone:360-671-1395
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It is good to see Linda Lyman’s name in the comment section. When I lived in your community in the 1990s, Linda and I confronted political violence in Whatcom county in our own ways, but we shared a commitment to making the public arena truthful and safe. Reading the recent Cascadia Weekly article http://www.cascadiaweekly.com/currents/opinion/a_history_of_violence on the resurgence of political violence in the form of a hate campaign against American Indian tribal governments, I am hopeful the Quakers will once again be an active and effective force for peace and justice.
–Jay Taber, San Francisco
Great ! It’s been like opening a door to treats you were unaware of. Thanks for talking/ sharing.
May 13, 2012
My Dear Friends,
Hello from Beijing. Thanks to Alice I got to the BellinghamFriends web site and have decided to tell you what’s going on here. First of all, I miss you and the Friends Meeting most of all. (Then I miss the wonderful music and arts community in Bellingham and the beauty of Western Washington along with it.) Life is going on well here, though. We are a good family which is just what I need. My wife “Kate” still hopes to get admitted to the U.S. for a visit. I’m going to re-retire at the end of June and since I my Chinese visa type will soon change we hope things will change regarding a visitors visa for her. Darned homeland security(??) is pretty unpredictable, so we’ll just have to wait and see. Our daughter has gotten a good job and has been working long days. It’s definitely a wake up for a socialite who has been in college for the past years. Well, it will be a long pull, honey!
My family in Western Washington are all still kickin’ and getting older. My eldest sister is 70, I’m 67, and if the rest of the gang aren’t seniors yet, they soon will be. I ask myself, ‘When did this happen?’: sneaks up on you, you know. My mother is 95 and living near my sister in Granite Falls. She is getting weak and I have a strong feeling that this is her final year. We are all blessed with life in a prosperous and comfortable country, and my mother’s life has been long and good – weal, woes and all.
As I’ve said, I wish I could be sitting in Meeting with you. Last time I was there I told all that I was working on my relationship with God. I still am; but, I am gaining clarity. My feeling is that all the stuff we can see and know is a physical manifestation of God: everything in the universe(s) from us to soil and rocks. My relationship to God then is to respect all and treat all with respect. I am swept off my feet with the greatness, depth and breadth of it all. But, where does that leave me: can I prey for help? prey for guidance? And how will I get it. If God is all that is, then that includes me. Perhaps when I prey I am fervently asking the God in me, “myself”, to find answers and ways. I like a statement by Dag Hammerskjold:
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
Love, Peace, Light to all of you,
Tom Z
far too dark, but my browser permits turning the background to white which is much more readable. unfortunately it also deletes all the images.
black is a poor choice to represent a group dedicated to finding the light. although a black background is quite faddish last several years.
Wow! This is great, John. Thank you.
It is really easy to find useful information – and it is soooo pretty!
I would change a couple of small things. Dark blue headings are difficult to discern on a black background. The light blue works well. The log-in picture of an open gate is an improvement over the previous padlock! That tree in the last sliding panel: you could find something better. Otherwise, the site is amazingly attractive, stunning in design, impressive in ease of use and filled with information that is nicely laid out and easy to access. John Hatten, you have done something remarkable with an already great site: Quaker artistry!
Looking forward to M4W4B tomorrow. Glad to see changes to website. We all move forward.
Alice
Done! Great suggestion.
One more suggestion: flip the order of Comments, so the most recent comment is at the top.
Oh – an afterthought – I know the calendar is included in the “About Us” window, but this is not an obvious place for a user to find it. I do think “About Us” should include a map to the meeting location – I.e. who, where, what information.
Then a separate window for “Calendar of Events”.
I would not put the log in window at the top of the home page – it is not clear what you need to log in for…
Suddenly I am getting ideas about how to make the site more intuitive from a user’s viewpoint. … Sorry these are so late in coming… but I do have more if it is still possible to make changes.
Judy
I would love to use this web site to check what is happening during second hour each sunday – but I can’t find that information. The metamorphosis (even if it were up to date) is way to long and difficult to navigate to obtain information in a hurry. I suggest that we add a calendar window at the top of the home page.
Thanks much,Judy
friends … i love you. i always enjoy sitting at monthly meeting, in the silence. i have always felt blessed that friends have always welcomed my atheist’s heart & mind in return for my spiritual company.
i first attended a quaker event at the nascent northwest yearly meeting in 1979. in these years, as i’ve lost respect for most institutions around our national culture , i still cherish friends. in 32 years … sitting on the regional executive committee and regional peace committee of american friends service committee, and spending 3 weeks at the quaker retreat center at pendle hill in pennsylvania, attending friday afternoon peace vigils in downtown bellingham, i have lots of exeprience from which to say that friends are among the truly holy communities.
i am visiting your website for the first time and i’ll admit that i surprised by the limited access to site pages that permeates your site, and the seeming insistence on membership for access. for me quakers include openness as part of the essential part of being friends.
in any case … i love you. thanks for being who you are … don vanvalkenburgh
1-360-758-7244
lipotufu08@gmail.com
Great Website Friends! Miss attending, I am in Alabama, three friends meeting sites in the state.
Take Care
Howard Bryan
Wow this looks great! I didn’t even know it was there! I love Judy’s bright orange sweater!
Dear Friend,
I met a Quaker woman last Friday in Bellingham at the anti-war gathering. She invited me to Sunday worship. You may have heard her mention me. In which case I would appreciate if you would reassure her that I did not get lost – she feared I would have a hard time finding the place that you meet – It was just that I was unable to attend due to my daughter’s workshop schedule.
Warm regards,
P.S. I too say this is a beautiful website!
Sherryll Harris
Editor: The Canadian Friend
I a a member of the RSOF in Canada (Vancouver BC MM) formerly of Birmingham Friends Meeting in Great Britain.
It is perhaps too far for me to travel to Vancouver for Meeting for Worship. Would I be welcome? (I winter in Mazatlan, Mexico with my Non Friend wife.)
I am somewhat isolated here in Fort Langley BC, and would welcome an occasional opportunity to worship.
Yours in Peace,
Michael
Well done! Impressive, informative, attractive and fun. Pictures are always welcome. I love seeing you all, you look great!
This website is beautiful, and I feel so enriched while looking at it! Thank you, Dave and John.
Excellent job! Thank you so much. rd
Site is absolutely beautiful — and very well designed! Kudos and thanks to Dave and John! –Va.