Our Guiding Principle
The Detroit Friends Meeting believes that there is that of God in everyone. All people can have a direct experience of the Divine, Spirit, or Inward Light individually and in shared worship. As Quakers, we try and live by our convictions and testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship every day in our actions. Our guiding principle is love. Find out more . . .
Annual Fund. Help us continue our work in Detroit.
Supporting a Quaker Presence in Detroit
Gifts to the Detroit Friends Meeting can be designated for the remodeling of our new meetinghouse or for operational expenses that are part of maintaining a presence in Detroit. Annual gifts of all amounts are meaningful and appreciated. Please use the button to the left for operational expenses. The button to the right is under construction, but will eventually show annual giving options. Would you like to show show your support now with a gift to the Detroit Friends Meeting? How about texting your gift to us by using our Text to Give number (855) 499-0302) ? Mail checks to Peter Dale, DFM Treasurer, 9812 Cranston, Livonia, Mi 48150 or to Detroit Friends Meeting 19309 Greenfield Rd. Detroit, MI 48235
Please support our new Meeting House. No gift is too small.
The members and attenders of the Detroit Friends Meeting are excited to announce that after ten years of being on a relocation journey, a way opened in Fourth Month, 2023! We have a new spiritual home! We have moved into an existing building at 19309 Greenfield Road in the City of Detroit and have both face-to-face Meeting and a virtual Meeting at 10:30 am. We are renovating the building and hope to have it completed by the Fall of 2025 . Click here to see a video on our story.
As of Spring 2024, we have replaced a leaking flat roof and added new aluminum trim along the gables and raised the concrete entrance to the building to create universal accessibility.
Various committees are beginning to work on the physical acknowledgment of the land, ways to serve the community, creating a welcoming space for those in the community, fundraising, and hiring minority contractors and companies to complete many of the major renovations needed.
Our goal is to be as energy neutral as our budget will allow. With the help of Kris Guccione (architect) from KMG designs we are moving forward with heat pumps and solar energy.
Our main vision and commitment to ensure that an active and engaged Quaker presence will continue in the City of Detroit for future generations to benefit from… has now become a reality!
Fundraising as of 1/1/2024
Visitors are welcomed regardless of age, race, differing abilities, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Detroit Friends Meeting is an unprogrammed Meeting and Meetings for Worship are held in expectant silence, without a program or pastor. Each worshiper seeks to listen to the spirit of God within. If that spirit brings to any of us a message to share with others, a worshipper may give that message as vocal ministry.
Hybrid meetings are offered at 10:30 a.m. on every Sunday at our Meetinghouse at 19309 Greenfield Rd., Detroit, MI 48235. For a Zoom invitation to worship with us, please contact us at: detroitfriendsmeeting@gmail.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4/28/2023 Please click on Detroit Friends Meeting’s latest thirteen minute video to listen to the story focusing on the journey to ensure a Quaker presence in the City of Detroit. The Meeting is pleased to announce they have a new meeting house at 19309 Greenfield Road in Detroit!
Blog postings 3/13/2022; Detroit Friends Declaration and Commitment to Become an Antiracist Meeting and DFM Response to LEYM Annual Query