Friendly Links

We participate in the Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace.

Quaker Humor:

• Quaker humor from westernquaker.net.
• Kvaeker humor from Denmark.
• Archive from the NYYM website.
• George Fox University's humor page.
  

More Serious Links to Quaker Organizations and Information about the Religious Society of Friends:

• Quaker.org - a comprehensive list of Quaker-related links, and a good place to begin any search for or about the Quakers.
• Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM) - providing oversight and guidance to the Reno Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
• PYM Committee on Unity with Nature - "A selection of statements on the concept of 'Unity with Nature' and our efforts to re-order our lives toward a more harmonious and Spirit-filled relationship to Creation."
• Las Vegas Worship Group - The webpage of Las Vegas, Nevada Quakers.
• Sierra Friends Center located at the Woolman Center in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Nevada City CA, offers 230 acres of meadows, woods, streams and ponds. The Center offers residential seminars, workshops and courses for adults and families, also collaborating with other groups in developing residential courses.Summer Camps are provided for children aged eight to fourteen. The Woolman Semester is the major program offering a multifaceted approach to education. The Woolman Semester draws students from throughout our country with courses emphasizing peace, justice and sustainability.
• Friends Bulletin - The official publication of "independent western Quakers." Includes access to the Directory of Western Friends.
• Friends Journal - An independent magazine serving the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
• Pendle Hill - offers the resources and time for integrated spiritual, intellectual and personal learning.  (Also where we borrowed our wallpaper.)
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)  - a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) - A Quaker lobby in the public interest.
• Friends General Conference - provides resources and opportunities that educate and invite members and attenders to experience, individually and corporately, God's living presence, and to discern and follow God's leadings. FGC reaches out to seekers and to other religious bodies inside and outside the wider Religious Society of Friends.
• Friends World Committee for Consultation - Their purpose is "to act in a consultative capacity to promote better understanding among Friends the world over...."
• Ben Lomond Quaker Center - a sacred place for friends to gather, and a self-service conference and retreat center with simple, comfortable accommodations, modestly priced.
• Friends House of Santa Rosa, California - where several of our members have retired.
• Friends Services for the Aging.
• Fellowship of Friends of African Descent.
• Friends Association for Higher Education - "The purpose of FAHE is to strengthen the Quaker mission in Higher Education."
• Evangelical Friends International (EFI) - A alternative, more Christ-centered version of Quakerism organized into Churches rather than Meetings such as our own. According to their website, EFI "exists to help local Friends churches around the world meet the spiritual needs of their communities. Our desire is to stretch across racial, cultural, national, even denominational barriers to reach people with the life-changing love of Christ. exists to help local Friends churches around the world meet the spiritual needs of their communities. Our desire is to stretch across racial, cultural, national, even denominational barriers to reach people with the life-changing love of Christ."
• Friends United Meeting (FUM) - is an international association of Friends Meetings and Churches, "organized for more effective Christian ministry, outreach and evangelism."
• The Making of a Quaker Atheist, by George Amoss, Jr.
• Tract Association of Friends - an association of members of the Society of Friends "with a special sense of unity in the concern for distribution of sound Quaker literature."
• ReligiousTolerance.org - an observer's description of Quakerism.
• Quakers History: How the Quakers established themselves in the New World, written by Hubert H. Bancroft.
• interFriend Publisher - publishing the wit, wisdom and religious experience of Quakers in Ireland.
  

A Few of Our Favorite Charities:

• AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) Development - for refugee assistance.
• Family Promise - we participate in the local chapter.