Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends is an un-programmed meeting established in 1943 by Dr. Elbert Russell and others who began meeting informally on the campus of Duke University in 1937. A brief history describes these beginnings and subsequent events. Two significant events described are obtaining the property on Alexander Avenue and building the first meetinghouse in the 1950’s, and the founding of Carolina Friends School in the 1960’s.
Durham
Meeting is affiliated with organizations representing two “branches” of
American Quakerism: North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), and Piedmont Friends Fellowship
(an association of NC monthly meetings which itself is part of Friends General Conference.)
Friends
meet monthly for a “meeting for worship with attention to business”. Various committees carry out important
aspects of the life of the meeting.
Information about how our meeting functions is found in the meeting Handbook.
Selected excerpts from meeting minutes and reports appear on the Archive page.
An interim report from the Long
Range Visioning Committee presented to business meeting in 4th
month, 2005, provides an overview of current ongoing discussions about the
state of this meeting and possible future directions.
Meeting
members and attenders may view current budget and financial information about
the Meeting on-line. Contact the
Meeting Treasurer to log-on to VirtualOfficeAmerica.