QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/B/MM

Staff Only

_____ MONTHLY MEETING _____ The basic unit of Quaker administration, which holds regular monthly business meetings. Only members can participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. _____ PREPARATIVE MEETING _____ A regularly-organized business meeting of a single congregation which prepared business to be presented to the monthly meeting. The scope of business as recorded in its minutes was normally limited to responses to queries and matters of property and school oversight. _____ QUARTERLY MEETING _____ Meetings for business held four times per year, attended by representatives of all monthly meetings in a region. It is an intermediary between the monthly and yearly meeting, serves as an appellate body for disciplinary matters, and considers problems too large for a local meeting to solve. A quarterly meeting holds the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship. It collects financial assessments from each monthly meeting in accordance with the quota established by the yearly meeting.

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Fauquier Friends Worship Group Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-F380

Scope and Contents

Digital records for Fauquier Friends Worship Group include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (2015-2019), and occasional minutes (2016-2020).

Dates: 2015 - 2019

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Abingdon Friends Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-A200

Abstract

Digital records for Abingdon Friends Meeting, 2010-2017.

Dates: 2010 - 2017

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Augusta Friends Worship Group Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-A900

Scope and Contents

Augusta Friends Worship Group digital records include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (2011-2019) and a 2017 directory.

Dates: 2011 - 2019

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Shepherdstown Friends Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-S500

Abstract

Digital records for Shepherdstown Friends Meeting, 2010-2018.

Dates: 2010 - 2018

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

South Mountain Friends Fellowship (Maryland Correctional Institution - Hagerstown) Reports

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-S685

Abstract

Digital records for South Mountain Friends Fellowship (under care of Patapsco Monthly Meeting), 2010-2016.

Dates: 2010 - 2016

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Takoma Park Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-T350

Abstract

Digital records for Takoma Park Preparative Meeting (under care of Adelphi Monthly Meeting), 2015-2017.

Dates: 2015 - 2017

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Friends Meeting (Rockingham County, Va.) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-V350

Scope and Contents

Valley Friends Meeting’s digital records include minutes (2011-2020 with gaps), some newsletters (2009-2019), Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (2010-2019), and some member related records and statistics.

Dates: 2009 - 2020

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College