Special Sunday Events

First Sunday of every month - 9:00am - 9:45 Pancake Breakfast

Friends, attenders, visitors all are welcome to join us starting at 9:00 am. All proceeds benefit our camp and conference fund.

Second Sunday of every month - 12:30pm - 1:30 Potluck Dinner

Join us for Potluck Dinner. Bring a dish to share! Proceeds go to maintain our kitchen supplies

Third Sunday of every month - 11:30am - 1:00pm Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business

For a detailed description of the process we follow during this gathering, please click here

Fourth Sunday of every month 12:30pm - 1:30 Simple Meal

We gather downstairs the fourth Sunday of each month to share a simple meal and discuss issues related to simpler living. All are welcome. Each person is asked to make a donation equal to what that person might have spent at a restaurant. This ministry benefits Right Sharing of Worlds Resources

For Pancake Breakfast, Potluck Dinner and our Simple Meal we can always use a helping hand!

Special Events At The Meeting House

Second and Fourth Saturday of every month:
10:00am - noon Friends Gathering in Jesus Christ:

This Christ centered worship group is open to all. Those interested in worshiping with us should phone ahead in case of occasional changes to the location.
Please contact Robert Hopper at 847/733-7226
For a more detailed description of this gathering, please click here

Click here to read the Epistle to Friends letter concerning this gathering

FAMILY CANDLELIGHT WORSHIP ON CHRISTMAS EVE 7:00 P.M.

Meeting for Worship at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, December 24, is an opportunity for the whole family, including your loved ones who celebrate Christmas in other traditions, to listen together in silence and contemplate the "wondrous gift" that came to us on the first Christmas.

It's the only scheduled Meeting for Worship during the year when we depart slightly from our entirely unprogrammed custom to invite special music, the singing of carols, and a reading of the nativity story. As we light one another's candles during the final hymn, we experience anew the significance of the Inner Light. After worship, be sure to join us in Friendship Hall for refreshments and conversation.

Friday Movie Nights

Friends are warmly invited to enjoy a movie twice each month, at the meetinghouse, on the second & fourth Friday evenings of each month. We take turns choosing the movie. We gather at 7:15PM in Friendship Hall (downstairs). Snacks and friends and movie ideas are welcome.

Friday, December 12: Wild River (sponsored by John Knox).

A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Written by Sam Neff {samn@yang.earlham.edu}. 1960, 110 Minutes

Friday, December 26: Little Buddha (sponsored by Rex Nyquist).

Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect, comes home from work one day, he finds two robed Buddhist monks sitting in his living room talking with his wife Lisa (Bridget Fonda). Guided by a series of disturbing dreams, the monks have traveled from Nepal to Seattle because they believe that the Conrad's ten-year-old son, Jesse (Alex Wiesendanger) may be the reincarnation of a legendary Buddhist mystic. The Conrads are initially skeptical, particularly when the monks want to take their son back to Bhutan with them. But after Dean's partner commits suicide, Dean has a religious awakening ("I've been doin' some thinkin'," he says) and permits Jesse to go away with the monks. Then the Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying) gives Jesse a children's book about the Buddha Siddhartha (Keanu Reeves). Siddhartha leads a sheltered life until he comes upon a couple of all-knowing beggars who introduce him to poverty and hunger. After this revelation, Siddhartha decides that it is his destiny to relieve all human beings from pain and suffering. Back in present day, Jesse is now knowledgeable about the basis of Buddhism. Much to Jesse's and his father's surprise, however, they find that there are two other children at Bhutan who show signs of being the reincarnated Buddhist mystic. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide. 1994, 12e minutes