About Friends General Conference
Founded in 1900, FGC has grown from a voluntary organization of seven yearly meetings created to hold a “general conference” every other year into a vibrant association of fourteen yearly meetings and regional groups and nine directly-affiliated monthly meetings that serves Quakers year-round with a vast array of programs and services.
Our Minute of Purpose reads:
Friends General Conference is a Quaker organization in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends which primarily serves affiliated yearly and monthly meetings. It is our experience that:
- Faith is based on direct experience of God
- Our lives witness this experience individually and corporate
- By answering that of God in everyone, we build and sustain inclusive community
FGC provides resources and opportunities that educate and invite members and attenders to experience, individually and corporately, God’s living presence, and to discern and follow God’s leadings. FGC reaches out to seekers and to other religious bodies inside and outside the wider Religious Society of Friends.
(adopted by Central Committee, October 1998)
Yearly Meetings
- Alaska Friends Conference (250)
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting (4,746)
- Canadian Yearly Meeting (1,216)
- Illinois Yearly Meeting (1,212)
- Lake Erie Yearly Meeting (712)
- New England Yearly Meeting (4,164)
- New York Yearly Meeting (3,512)
- Northern Yearly Meeting (1,475)
- Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (783)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (11,746)
- Piedmont Friends Fellowship (900)
- South Central Yearly Meeting (446)
- Southeastern Yearly Meeting (570)
- Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association (1,245)
Listed above in parentheses are the yearly meeting membership totals
Monthly Meetings
- Central City, Nebraska (no web site)
- Davis, California
- Heartland, Kansas
- Horry County, South Carolina
- Manhattan, Kansas
- Olympia, Washington
- Oread, Kansas
- Sacramento, California
- Topeka, Kansas
