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What you would need is to get in touch with the secretary of a yearly meeting and ask them how to get started. Weekly meetings get together for yearly or bi-annual meetings, sending representatives. I think that to use the term 'Quaker' a new Quaker meeting must be sponsored by an established Quaker meeting. So if you got in touch with the secretary then they could get you into touch with a weekly meeting interested in sponsoring your new meeting (not financially but spiritually). You will need to do more than put up a sign but travel occasionally to larger meetings.Suggestions for finding and establishing a quaker meeting place for worship?
my own home is not an option. initially there would be no funds for such a facility.
What you would need is to get in touch with the secretary of a yearly meeting and ask them how to get started. Weekly meetings get together for yearly or bi-annual meetings, sending representatives. I think that to use the term 'Quaker' a new Quaker meeting must be sponsored by an established Quaker meeting. So if you got in touch with the secretary then they could get you into touch with a weekly meeting interested in sponsoring your new meeting (not financially but spiritually). You will need to do more than put up a sign but travel occasionally to larger meetings.
One of the first things you will be doing at weekly meetings is keeping records during business proceedings which may happen weekly or bi-weekly. Often business meetings occur where the worship takes place. Everyone is always welcome and encouraged to attend business meetings. You always record what happens at your meeting and keep the records. All Quaker meetings keep records of attendance, minutes, comments, concerns, questions and plans. There are records of Quaker attendance and meeting details going back centuries.
Being sponsored by a meeting has some benefits. First you can officially be called a Quaker meeting. You can officiate weddings and funerals, register for non-profit status, accept donations. You get the advantage of experience when there are problems, too.
Its not necessary, however, to be Quaker. People start similar meetings on similar principles. If you can't get sponsored then you can fork.
Of course the most important thing is finding Quakers that aren't part of a meetinghouse or group....I have no clue how to do that except by social media