Ministry and Counsel drafts annually a report which assesses the Meeting's spiritual condition and needs. The Monthly Meeting should thoughtfully consider this draft and give it final approval. The report should be prepared with reference to the Queries and should cover such matters as:

• Spiritual condition of the Meeting; strength and failings;
• Nature of meetings for worship during the year. Quality of the silence, content and quality of the spoken ministry;
• meetings for business during the year. Range of concern considered, attendance of members, implementation of the Meeting's decisions;
• Contributions of Peace and Social Order, Religious Education, Ministry and Counsel, Overseers, and other committees;
• What is most needed to deepen the spiritual life of the Meeting and to strengthen its witness in behalf of Friends' testimonies to the world.

Note that a [large] PDF file containing all the reports is available online
 

Adelphi Friends Meeting is a vital, active Quaker community with nearly 125 children and adult First Day worshippers. (more...)

Our community has been blessed. Each First Day our meeting house is filled with over fifty Friends and newcomers gathered in worship. We rejoice in the presence and power of love which is present in our life together. (more...)

In silence we gathered, on the fourth First day of the Second month to reflect on our lives and our community. Who are we? How are we growing as a worshiping body of the Religious Society of Friends? (more...)

Augusta Friends Worship group located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia continues to provide a spiritual home to 15 attenders. (more...)

The year 2003 challenged many of us at Homewood Meeting to examine our Quaker compass. Within the past year, attendance at Homewood has grown, as we have enjoyed an influx of attenders. (more...)

Stony Run Friends Meeting has been especially vibrant during these troubled times. Our members and attenders - from youngest to oldest-are working on many fronts to put their faith into action. (more...)

In this year of war and its aftermath that comes on the heels of two years of alarms about terrorism, we find ourselves eager for the solace of Meeting for Worship. We yearn for the refreshment of a deep living silence and Spirit-centered messages. (more...)

The past year has brought with it many changes, but still much remains the same. Our attendance seems to be slightly reduced, but steady. (more...)

Carlisle Friends continue to have regular First Day Meeting for Worship, First Day School and Monthly Meeting for Business. Wednesday Noon Worship was laid down for the present.(more...)

2003 was, in general, a good year for Charlottesville Friends Meeting. We were blessed with growth in attendance at our First Day worship sessions, and in the way worshipping together centered our personal spiritual lives. (more...)

Members express a desire to attend meeting out of a sense of love for the group. There is a feeling of comfort and support that friends find within the Meeting at Deer Creek. However... (more...)

This has been a special year, one that brings awe to even the most staid of Quakers. We celebrated, were entertained, learned about our past, worked hard on the FGC... (more...)

Meetings for worship are held each First Day with from two to seven in attendance. A spirit of faithfulness and loyalty binds together the few local members of our Meeting.(more...)

In 2003 Frederick Meeting experienced a year of intense involvement in matters of the world and of the spirit. We felt a growing awareness of both change around us and our need to change. (more...)

This is an attempt to provide an overview of the state of this group after over a month back in the Campus Christian Center, 1213 Dandridge Road, across from the Mary Washington campus. We began February first. (more...)

As members of the only Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends situated within the borders of our nation's capital, members of the Friends Meeting of Washington are especially mindful of the importance of our historic Meeting House to Friends beyond our meeting community. (more...)

The past year was not a statistically record-setting year. It was eventful, nevertheless, for us as a Meeting community. (more...)

As a rural Meeting whose roots for most of its history have been in a farming community, we are accustomed to observing the significance of the seasons in our lives and environment. (more...)

The Meeting is committed to centering in silence in meeting for worship, in monthly meetings for business, and as we meet together for other activities. (more...)

To assess the spiritual state of our Meeting we made special efforts to get comments from our members and attenders this year. We distributed a set of queries we composed and got written responses from some. (more...)

Meetings for worship have been well attended. Many found the silence deep and the messages meaningful. Some were concerned that a few Friends spoke too often and/or without proper seasoning. (more...)

Each year when we write the spiritual state of the meeting, Friends say recopy last years. That might indicate that our spiritual state is low... (more...)

We continue as a small but active Meeting, close-knit in our caring and concern. We pull together well in a considerable variety of outreach projects and in enhancing the functionality and attractiveness of our historic Meeting house, schoolhouse and grounds. (more...)

Mattaponi Friends have experienced a deepening of our spiritual growth this year as we have grown substantially in the number of regular attenders for Meeting for Worship. (more...)

As Maury River Friends have considered the Meeting's spiritual condition and needs this year, the undeniable fact of war has loomed large, and Friends have found their faith tested by world events. (more...)

Menallen Friends Monthly Meeting continues in its tradition of silent Worship. Through our silence we listen carefully for the Inner Light within ourselves, and we rejoice in the spoken truth as it is revealed through others. (more...)

This report on the spiritual state of Midlothian Friends Meeting draws from our vision statement that was drafted nearly a decade ago. (more...)

The Year began with a realization that two valuable members of our Meeting would be retiring and moving out of the area. This left us with a sense of impending loss and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the responsibilities we would now have to undertake. (more...)

Friends planted Patapsco Friends Meeting seven years ago in the spirit of George Fox's early and persistent advice to meet together everywhere. We were led to provide for ourselves and for others whom we did not yet know an opportunity to experience the preemptive love of God, which speaks to us out of the silence. (more...)

This has been a year of spiritual evolution, as Patuxent Friends have had to deal with some very difficult issues. Death, separations, illnesses, and the challenges of maintaining our meetinghouse and tenant have deepened our respect and trust with each other. (more...)

In considering what to include in this report, we focused largely on the question of how well the Meeting has served our needs. This elicited much fruitful discussion with both positive and negative feelings expressed: (more...)

Richmond Friends Meeting (RFM) continues to reap enormous benefits from changing the meeting time for its monthly meeting for worship with attention to business to 11 a.m. on each 3rd First Day. (more...)

Celebrating 250 years of practicing being a settled meeting, we rejoice in knowing our core values, deep spirituality and callings still resonate. As our lives, community and world change, we find ourselves both blessed and challenged. (more...)

We are a large, active Meeting that is blessed to have the State College Friends School and the Cooperative Playschool under its care, and Foxdale Village, a Quaker-directed continuing care community, close by. (more...)

We successfully integrated changes last year including searching for a different worship space and the decision to move into it, selecting co-clerks of Meeting, adopting a simplified structure of officers and committees... (more...)

Members and attenders consider Valley Friends their spiritual home, and meeting for worship to be the touchstone of their spiritual life. It seems that Meeting also enriches the spiritual journeys of those within our community. (more...)

Friends of Williamsburg Monthly Meeting have labored together in self-examination to report the spiritual state of our Meeting for the past year. We have found both strengths and weaknesses in our activities together and strive to report accurately on both. (more...)

York Monthly Meeting is a healthy Spiritual Community that is growing. There is a sense of connectedness within the Meeting. We have added five new active Friends to our membership. (more...)