Who We Are
Epistles for the Yearly Meeting
History
A Look Back in History: First Friends Knoxville
On June 25, 1908, J. Waldo Woody arrived in Knoxville, Tennessee under the auspices of Five Years Meeting (now Friends United Meeting) and Wilmington Yearly Meeting to investigate the possibility of planting a Quaker meeting in Knoxville. Woody began holding meeting...
A Look Back in History: Eastern Hills Friends Meeting
“To follow the principles in Faith and Practice, making all who wish to join with us feel welcome.” These words were recorded July 1972 in the first minutes that still remain of an untitled worship group meeting in the Clifton area of Cincinnati. How did Eastern Hills...
A Look Back in History: Xenia Friends Meeting
By Betty Johnson Since our founding in 1905, Xenia Friends has been cognizant and mindful of the Quaker testimonies known collectively as SPICES–Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Service/Sustainability. The first building on High Street was built...
A Look Back in History: Campus Friends Meeting
Campus Friends began meeting in 1948 and was born out of a desire among Quaker students and staff at Wilmington College to participate in an unprogrammed worship group. At that time, there were no unprogrammed meetings in Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and many of these...
A Look Back in History: Ada Chapel
Ada Chapel began in 1888 as a mission in East Wilmington. At that time, East Wilmington was the impoverished side of town, and Quaker school-teacher Lizzie Harvey was concerned about the well-being of her students who lived there. She began holding gospel meetings in...
Eli Harvey House
One of the few remaining Quaker settler brick houses in Clinton County is the 1830 Eli Harvey house on Lebanon Road in the Springfield Meeting community, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eli Harvey (1803-1872) was a very small child when he...
Quakers: That of God in Everyone
Did you know that Cincinnati Friends Meeting made a documentary about Quakers in 2015? Or that our very own Donne Hayden wrote the film? This documentary tells the stories of lesser-known Friends from southwest Ohio whose faiths led them to do impactful things that...
Quaker Scenic Byway
Do you have an interest in local history? Have you ever noticed that the story of southwest Ohio is chock-full of stories about Quakers, and you are interested in learning more about their influence? Then you should check out the Quaker Scenic Byway! The Quaker Scenic...
Elmer H. Brown, Jr.’s 1940 Dissertation
See Elmer H. Brown, Jr.'s 1940 Dissertation from Butler University A History of Wilmington Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
August 17th, 1870- Franklin College Purchased By the Friends
(Above image & text courtesy of Karen Campbell) Article from the August 17, 1870 issue of the Miami-Gazette newspaper, Waynesville, Ohio FRANKLIN COLLEGE PURCHASED BY THE FRIENDS. On Monday afternoon the Franklin College Building and...
book of discipline
Faith & Practice
This is our declaration of what it means to be Quaker in the membership of the Wilmington Yearly Meeting.
The book is divided into three major parts:
PART I — FAITH AND LIFE
PART II — ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS PROCEDURE
PART III — AUTHORIZED DECLARATION OF FAITH
Ministries
Quaker Friends Ramallah
There has been an active and vibrant Palestinian Quaker community in Ramallah since the late 1800’s. In 1910, this community built the Ramallah Friends Meetinghouse and later added another building that was used for community outreach.
Belize Friends School
Three years ago, Friends United Meeting committed itself to pursue a significant expansion of its ministries in Belize.
Wilmington School in Puerto Padre, Cuba
We were truly blessed to see the work progressing at Puerto Padre, Cuba! With the generosity and faithfulness of Friends who have supported this ongoing ministry, Cuba Yearly Meeting and its partners around the globe have been able to “Rebuild a Friendly Place” at the Colegio Wilmington (Wilmington School).
Friends Disaster Service
The Friends Disaster Services is a network of volunteers from across the USA that provides relief in the aftermath of natural disasters. Taking their lead from Matthew 25:40, “Whatever you did for one of the least of these you did for me,” they describe their mission as being “to exemplify God’s love and bring hope and encouragement to survivors of disasters such as tornados, hurricanes, floods, fires.”