Description: Welcome to Southern Illinois Quakers | Southern Illinois Quaker Meeting, 913 S Illinois Ave, (not for postal mail), Carbondale, IL 62901 | Quakers try to live in truth, peace, simplicity and equality, finding God in ourselves and those around us.
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Please join us a few minutes in advance of 10:00am Sundays at the Gaia House Interfaith Center at 913 S. Illinois Avenue, Carbondale IL 62901. Our worship format is silent seeking, prayer and/or meditation, occasionally blessed with messages of vocal ministry that we might share with one another. For second hour at 11:00am, we socialize, while on 1st Sunday we share a pot luck and the 4th Sunday we also conduct monthly business in a worshipful format. Minutes from meetings for worship with attention to busi
We are an open, welcoming and affirming community of seekers. Our weekly, hour-long worship format is to wait in expectant silence, listening for the prompts of the Inward Teacher. Sometimes this guidance inspires us to certain action in our lives, and sometimes the guidance takes the form of a spoken "message" which is shared from the silence as ministry to one another. We engage in this mutual ministry without a pastor or sermon; instead, we manage the business of the meeting by rotating in service as Cle
We use Quaker traditions, practices and disciplines to nurture our transformation, which grounds our individual witness in the world, and inspires our meeting.