Meeting for Worship and Worship Sharing

Daily online Meeting for Worship


Each morning from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts a silent, online half-hour online Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends. The Meeting uses a website called Chatzy that provides a text-only format – no audio or video. You can join the Meeting and read more about it by following the link below. All are welcome. 

Quaker Center online meeting for worship.

Wednesday Online Worship Sharing


Each Wednesday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts an online Worship Sharing group. Friends gather in a worshipful attitude to reflect together on a quote and some related queries. Worship sharing is similar to a Quaker Meeting for Worship in that, after an initial period of silence, those present speak from their own experience and allow for silence between contributions. Participants speak only once, until everyone who wishes to has had a chance to share. Newcomers are welcome. Click the Zoom link below to join the group.

Quaker Center Wednesday online Worship Sharing

This week’s quote(s):

“The Healing Time” by  Persia Joyce Gertler

Finally on my way to yes
I bump into 
all the places
where I said no
to my life 

all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
Those coded messages
that send me down the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections

and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say
holy 
holy


“Poem to Myself” by Rob Soley from Moving Day

Sink down into the center of each flowering moment.
What if the moment does not flower?

Sink down into the center of the moment.
What if I can’t find the center?

Sink down into the moment.
What if the moment is gone?

Sink down.
What if I can’t sink down?

Then be still.

The moment will find you
The center will surround you.
the flower will bloom within you.

Click here to join the Zoom.

Queries: 

  • 1. Have you ever been able to lift up the old wounds, the old misdirections and say holy, holy?
  • 2. What do you do when you cannot find the center of each flowering moment? 
  • 3. Have you ever had the center surround you, and the flower bloom within you?
  • 4. How do the poems speak to you?

First Wednesday evenings:
in-person Meeting for Worship

Each month on the first Wednesday, we’ll have an evening Meeting for Worship here at Quaker Center from 7:15 to 8:00 p.m. We’ll gather for an informal potluck before hand at about six. All are welcome. Call (831) 336-8333 with any questions, no need to RSVP. We usually meet in the Orchard Lodge, but look for the sign when you drive up – it will tell you where the Meeting for Worship will be held.