Friends General Conference

Friends General Conference

1216 Arch St., 2B
Philadelphia, PA 19107
United States

Attesting Officer
Barry Crossno
General Secretary


Media Contact
Gen. Sec., Barry Crossno

39.9538607, -75.1603386


Friends General Conference (FGC) is an association of fifteen yearly meetings open to all Friends meetings which wish to be actively associated with FGC's programs and services. Friends General Conference includes Baltimore, Canadian, Illinois, Intermountain, Lake Erie, New England, New York, Northern, Ohio Valley, Philadelphia, South Central and Southeastern Yearly Meetings; Alaska Friends Conference, Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association, and Piedmont Friends Fellowship; plus ten independently affiliated monthly meetings. Friends General Conference is primarily a service organization with the stated purpose of nurturing the spiritual life within its constituency of predominantly unprogrammed Friends. FGC offers services to all Friends, but has no authority over constituent meetings. A Central Committee, to which constituent Yearly Meetings name appointees (in proportion to membership), and its Executive Committee, are responsible for the direction of FGC's programs and services which include a bookstore, conferences, and traveling ministries program. The 2009 Central Committee approved the following Minute of Purpose,
Friends General Conference, with Divine guidance, nurtures the spiritual vitality of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by providing programs and services for Friends, meetings, and seekers.
Major Goals
1. Nurture meetings and worship groups.
2. Provide resources and opportunities for meetings, Friends, and seekers to experience the Light, the living presence of God.
3. Help meetings guide Friends to discern the leadings of the Inward Teacher and to grow into ministry.
4. Transform our awareness so that our corporate and individual attitudes and actions fully value and encompass the blessed diversity of our human family.
5. Work to grow and sustain a vital, diverse, and loving community of Friends based on a shared search for unity in the Spirit.
6. Articulate, communicate, and exemplify Friends' practices, core experiences, and the call to live and witness to our faith.
7. Promote dialogue with others, sharing with them our corporate experience of Divine Truth and listening to and learning from their experience of the same.


Full Communicants Average Attendance Other Members Total Inclusive Members Total Churches Membership Calculation Method
2010
32,000
32,000
832
2002
32,000
32,000
832
1999
32,000
32,000
620
1998
32,000
32,000
620
1997
32,000
32,000
620
1996
0
33,000
600
1995
31,415
31,415
602
1994
31,500
31,500
550
1993
31,500
31,500
520
1992
31,500
31,500
520
1991
30,902
30,902
520
1987
0
31,690
505
1983
0
31,600
505
1974
0
26,184
233
1971
0
26,671
233
1970
0
31,564
314
1969
0
31,498
314
1967
31,461
315
1966
0
31,831
306
1965
0
31,670
292
1964
31,777
310
1963
31,879
293
1962
31,851
291
1961
31,550
270
1959
31,530
291
Serving Churches Retired Other Service to the Church Total Clergy
1999
6
1
7
1998
6
1
7
1996
10
0
1965
23
0
1964
23
28
1963
26
28
1962
26
28
1961
27
28
1959
27
28
1958
28
28
1957
9
0
1956
12
0
1955
13
0
1952
2
0
Total Schools Staff Pupils Total Individuals
2010
400
2002
400
1999
400
1998
400
1993
520
0
1992
500
0
1969
207
0
1967
216
0
1966
216
0
1964
215
1,461
8,728
10,189
1963
216
1,402
8,400
9,802
1962
196
1,357
11,882
13,239
1961
190
1,356
12,205
13,561
1959
203
1,442
13,014
14,456
1958
193
1,445
12,509
13,954
1957
161
1,071
9,641
10,712
1956
155
1,261
9,938
11,199
1955
159
660
5,809
6,469
1953
127
660
5,809
6,469
1952
134
660
5,809
6,469
1951
113
660
5,809
6,469
1950
113
660
5,809
6,469
Total Benevolences Total Financials Total Giving Local Expenses Method
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