NOTICE! We are currently worshipping on Sunday at 10:30 AM Eastern in a hybrid worship format: Some are physically gathered under the roof of a Seminole chickeehut while others are connected digitally via Zoom.
Virtual
Join us on Zoom by clicking here.
In Person
Directions: Set your GPS or your computer’s map program to 5150 Buckingham Rd, Fort Myers, which is the address for the Rum Bucket Restaurant. Proceed into the restaurant parking lot and continue to the right of the building. You will see the chickeehut on the right and the entrance to the property is a little further on the right.
For more information, you may e-mail ftmyers.quakers@gmail.com or call 239-318-0538.
Our Fort Myers Quaker community is currently working with the city government to obtain a development order so that we may build a meetinghouse on land leased from the Unitarian Universalist Church on Shire Lane in Fort Myers. It is also the only meetinghouse currently being built in Florida. We are grateful for the financial support of the Southeastern Yearly Meeting to assist us in construction.
Watershed Friends School
Our deepening relationship with the Unitarians, who share many common beliefs, is also leading to plans to establish a Friends School at the Unitarian Church. This will be the first such Friends school in Fort Myers and will be run based on Quaker principles.
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You have found the website of the Fort Myers Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). We are a vibrant spiritual home who worship in person and through hybrid worship technology..
Who are Quakers? What do we believe? How are we unique?
This website is designed to answer your questions.
You’ll find we have a mostly silent way to worship.
Without the distraction of collection plates, dogma, creeds and pressures to become a member, you are free to find your own spiritual path. We value all of God’s children.
While some of us were born into the Quaker tradition many of us come from other religious and spiritual journeys. We value your tradition. What unites us is a desire to seek the light of God in everyone.
We have no ministers or clergy. We all accept responsibility to minister to each other. You will find many others willing to help you on your spiritual journey. In a giant house of worship no one knows your name. When you worship with us in either in person or in a hybrid worship format, you are among a small group of friends. We know and value each other.
Your faith ought to make a difference in your life and the lives of others. What you experience on Sunday should last throughout the week. You will find Friends practicing what we believe. We support the less fortunate in our community, we seek a world in peace and renounce war. We live simply and with integrity.
Quakerism began through the reformation of the Protestant sect of Christianity, and has been an established religion for hundreds of years. We have been quietly making a difference since our founding in 1650!
We invite you to learn more about us, experience the Quaker way of worship, and be among friends.
Fort Myers Friends Meeting is a part of Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (SEYM). SEYM is affiliated with Friends General Conference (FGC), Philadelphia, PA, and Friends World Committee for Consultation, Division of the Americas (FWCC).