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 major renovations of our new meetinghouse (Click Our Story) 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 provides desperately needed funds for our new Meetinghouse and provides shows annual giving options. Would you like to show show your support now with a gift to the Detroit Friends Meeting?
Either click on the donation button or 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.
Fundraising as of 31 August 2026
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 click on this link at 10:25 am on First Day (Sunday).
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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. We were granted access, but needed major renovations before we could gain an occupancy permit. The Meeting now has both face-to-face programming and a virtual Meeting at 10:30 am. Click here to see a video on our story.
As of January 2026, we have completed a full renovation of our meetinghouse. We now have a Meetinghouse that is heated and cooled by solar panels and heat pumps. The electricity is powered by solar panels and battery backup. We have raised almost $800,000 but fell short of the amount needed to finish. Two members came through by using their retirement savings and we are now seeking support to retire $225,000 member loans that made this work this renovation possible.
The Detroit Friends Meeting will be celebrating it’s centennial existence since its inception in 1926. The Meeting plans on having a celebration in August of 2026 to recognize our commitment to Quaker practice and peace and social justice programs in Detroit.
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!
The Detroit Friends Meeting possesses historical documents dating back to 1920. Click on the picture of our old meetinghouse to read a Friends Journal article of our story of how we struggle to remain in the City. Click on the picture below to read how Friends School in Detroit succumbed to financial pressures and was forced to close.
Detroit Meetinghouse Story
Click on the image below to view a 7 minute video on the story of Quakers in Detroit. The video shows actual members of the Detroit meeting talking about the struggles of having a meetinghouse in Detroit.
This is a representation of the New Gordy Howe International Bridge. The bridge will expand trade between the United States and Canada. Our Meetinghouse was taken via eminent domain to create space for the bridge.
The Underground Railroad
The new Detroit Friends Meeting House
19309 Greenfield Road, Detroit, MI 48235