NOTICE! We are currently worshipping on 1st day in a hybrid format: Some are physically gathered under the roof of a Seminole chickeehut while others are connected digitally via Zoom. For more information, you may e-mail ftmyers.quakers@gmail.com or call 239-318-0538. ______________________________________________________________________________ … Read more...
How We Worship
At our Meeting for Worship, we gather in silent prayer, to listen, to meditate and to wait while seeking divine guidance and understanding. We have no paid clergy, no ritual, dogma, neither icons nor liturgy; we all share the responsibility for ministry of the Meeting. We may participate in the … Read more...
About Quaker Beliefs
We are called Quakers or Friends and are members of the Religious Society of Friends. The Quaker movement originated in mid-seventeenth century England. With the advent of printing, the Bible was becoming widely known, and it appeared to many who read it that the early … Read more...
Fort Myers Quakers’ Statement in Light of Recent Events of Public Violence
Quakers have always been deeply persuaded that peace is the way and public violence is something we abhor. The Friends Peace Testimony, an early statement that informs Quaker thinking today, comes from a letter written in 1660 by Margaret Fell to King George II of England: “We utterly deny all … [Read More...]