Newtown Quakers Celebrate World Quaker Day Via Zoom Meeting

Newtown Quakers Celebrate World Quaker Day

Newtown Friends Meeting sent greetings and love to people throughout the
world on October 4 in celebration of World Quaker Day as they gathered virtually
via Zoom for worship in Newtown, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania (www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org).

There are approximately 400,000 Quakers worldwide in North, Central and South
America, Europe, the UK,
East Europe, Russia,
Africa, Southeast Asia, The Far
East, Australia
and new New Zealand.

The goal of World Quaker Day is for Quaker Meetings and organizations around
the world to share something about Quakers with the public -- a
talk of "Why I am a Quaker," or "My Spiritual Journey" by a
member, the founding of their Quaker Meeting, or maybe "Things about
Quakers You Didn't Know." During
Covid-19, the events are of necessity virtual and online.

Or talks are about well-known Quakers like John Woolman, Judi Dench,
William Penn, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, John Greenleaf Whittier, the Barclays
of Barclays Bank, Joan Baez, Susan B. Anthony, the Cadburys of Cadbury
Chocolates, the Clarks of Clark's shoes, Bethlehem Steel founder Joseph Wharton
for whom the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is named, Johns
Hopkins, Ezra Cornell of Cornell university, or Bonnie Raitt.

Other talks sometimes focus on people raised as Quakers like James Michener,
Daniel Boone, James Dean, and Philadelphian Samuel Nicholas, "The Fighting
Quaker" and founder of the Marine Corps during the Revolutionary War.

Sometimes, the public is just invited in for a cup of coffee and an open
house.

Newtown Quaker Meetinghouse is currently closed for all events due to the
coronavirus pandemic but activities of the Meeting and the Meeting’s 340
members continue online and outdoors (such as the biweekly vigils on Newtown’s
State Street in support of
racial justice). When the Meetinghouse
at 219 Court Street, Newtown, does
re-open, all events will continue to be open to the public as usual.