Quarterly Meeting Schedule

Adult Program:

Children’s Program:

9:20 am       All gather for centering Worship

   Bruce Birchard 

Bruce joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1967 and has been a member of Central Philadelphia        Monthly Meeting since 1976. He has served Friends           in three full-time positions: Peace Movement Organizer    for Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly   Meeting (1974 to 1984), National Coordinator of AFSC’s Disarmament Program (1984 to 1992), and General Secretary of Friends General Conference (1992 to 2011). Since his retirement in 2011, he has given extensive volunteer service to  Quaker Voluntary Service, Right Sharing of World Resources, and   Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.  He is concerned about climate change and, among other things, published an article in the June, 2014 issue of Friends Journal titled “Exploring New   Images of God for Healing the Earth.”

Christina is the founding Executive Director of Quaker Voluntary Service. She grew up in the Charlotte Friends Meeting and is now a member of the Atlanta Friends Meeting She has served on staff in the Peace Building Program of the American Friends Service Committee, and she previously worked out of AFSC’s Philadelphia office as the coordinator of the Mexico Summer Project, one of AFSC’s last remaining workcamps for young adults. She has worked professionally for several faith-based nonprofit organizations. She served on Friend’s General Conference’s Youth Ministries Committee for 6 years, and recently served on FGC’s Stoking the Spiritual Fire of Quakerism Capital Campaign Steering Committee. She has represented FGC Friends several times at FWCC international and cross-branch Quaker gatherings and is a regular workshop leader and speaker on prophetic witness, Quaker spiritual practices, and discernment. She was a Woodruff Fellow at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology where she received a Master of Divinity in 2011, and recently completed a Ministry Fellowship with the Fund for Theological Education. Serves on the Board of Directors of Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Her writing has appeared Friends Journal and Quaker Life and she has been the invited speaker at various events including the 2014 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting William Penn Lecture and Guilford College’s 2014 Commencement Exercises. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Dean, who is the founding principal of the Kindezi School, and their son, Harmon.