Middleton Friends Meeting: 2024

3.05.2024

Living A-Top of the World

I picked up the booklet "Living A-Top of the World" by Charles P. Morlan at Middleton Meeting last year. It is a booklet that I read through in entirety and now continue to re-read sections as part of my daily devotions. One passage recently stood out to me. I thought I would share it:

"But what must we do to possess this dynamic faith? We must first choose to want it. ' Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness' for they shall be filled.' Faith is a quality which we use constantly in the activities of everyday living.". I hope this gives readers something to ponder on this beautiful day.

Information about Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Conservative) can be found here: OYM or https://ohioyearlymeeting.org/. Better yet, join us in person for worship on Fifth Day (Thursday) at 3pm and/or on First Day (Sunday) at 10:30am.

--Carol

Affiliate Member of Middleton Meeting

2.08.2024

Second Month updates

Second Month updates

💟Monthly meeting will be held on 2/18 after worship

💟The yearly Middleton E-Newsletter has been sent to members. Let us know if it was not received and we'll re-send it.

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I Corinthians 13: 4-8 (NIV)

4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5. It does not dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.

8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

1.16.2024

Winter Wonderland

❅Here are some words to think about as we all try to stay warm in our wintery (but beautiful) snowy conditions:

One of our members did some additional research and writes that the definition of "husk" is 'a dry empty shell especially when empty of its contents'.

Our Clerk has emailed the Monthly Minutes from 1/14 to all members. The minutes are very informative and include information about upcoming OYM virtual meetings.

Please join us on Fifth Day (Thursday) and/or First Day (Sunday) !

More information about Conservative Quaker Friends Meeting can be found on the Ohio Yearly Meeting website: link here OYM or visit https://ohioyearlymeeting.org/

Middleton Friends Meeting

Welcome to Friends

Meeting for Worship

Only God knows the inward states and spiritual need of each individual. When all sit as one body, and look to Jesus Christ, His Power is intensified. It usually takes a little while to get your mind still and to set aside your own thoughts so that God’s Spirit can do it’s work in you.We invite you to participate in our worship of God together silently, to prayerfully wait upon the Lord. “Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10. With the help of the Holy Spirit, who directs the worship, our minds are withdrawn from all outward and distracting things, and we are enabled to maintain a solemn, waiting attitude of spirit.

God is able to direct the worship, by which we receive guidance and direction for our lives. As we come to know God’s will God also gives us strength to do His will, consolation, comfort, conviction of sin, forgiveness and a reordering of our lives according to His priorities.

In John 4:13 & 14 Jesus spoke to the woman at the well saying, "whosoever drinketh of the water that I give him shall never thirst again." In that same chapter verse 23 He told her, "The hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth."

Someone may be led by God to stand and communicate a spiritual message, usually brief, or to kneel and pray vocally.

1st Peter 4:11 directs, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; If any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever, amen."

God may call anyone to this ministry. “For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you” Matthew 10:20. And none go beyond the measure of the spirit of God, nor quench it; for where it is quenched, it cannot try things. So if you have anything upon them to speak, in the life, that you may answer that of God in every man upon the earth. (George Fox)"

So as we sit in silence with our hearts resting in Him. Anyone may be given some words of Wisdom from God to speak aloud, or learn silently for one's own edification

We extend a cordial welcome to all present at our Meeting for Worship.

The Meeting for Worship closes with the shaking of hands.