About Us
Bellingham Friends (Quakers) have been meeting for shared worship each Sunday for several decades. For a while, we were “under the care” of University Friends Meeting in Seattle, but in the 1980s, we became an official Monthly Meeting. There are usually about twenty adults and ten children attending on any given Sunday. Our eldest members are in their 90s, our youngest is under two.
Many of us come from Christian backgrounds of one kind and another, but many come to Quakerism from an agnostic or theist perspective, and others enrich our worship with their knowledge of and commitment to other traditions: Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, and Buddhist, to name a few of current attenders’ spiritual homes. Our mutual commitment is to honoring our Quaker history of spiritual seeking and “right action” — behaving in a way that is consistent with our shared values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship.
In all things, both with one another and with the world, we seek to be guided by a spirit of compassion and love. We are active in local peace and justice work, including the establishment of the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center and the Friday afternoon vigil for peace and justice at the Federal Building in downtown Bellingham. We welcome newcomers’ energy and ideas as an enrichment of our community.
Committee, Job & Position Job Descriptions
To learn more about the various roles that make the Meeting work, we have a list of job descriptions that are available here.