Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."
Jeremiah 6:16 (World English Bible)
North Main Friends is a small worship group in downtown Greenville, SC. We invite anyone who is interested to come to our worship services, or as we call them— meetings for worship, every Sunday afternoon at 2:00 PM. North Main Friends follows the discipline of the Ohio Yearly Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio, an important voice of the conservative Quaker faith. Different Quaker groups meet once a year for a variety of spiritual and business reasons, and each group generally adopts its name from these meetings. The term "Conservative Quaker" is not a reference to politics, and does not mean that the members are affiliated with any political group. Conservative, rather, refers to the simple life that Friends seek. The word also refers to the conservative Quakers' efforts to conserve the original Quaker disciplines.
If you are interested in knowing more about conservative Friends in general, then try the above link. The conservative Friends home website has much valuable information, and will answer many questions you may have concerning conservative Quakers in general. Let us also suggest a visit to the Crossroad Friends website. The Crossroad Friends Worship Group is in Michigan, but a visit to their website would be fruitful if you are interested in knowing more about Quaker history. Our Michigan Friends have provided valuable links to a great amount of online reading material.
There is also the Quaker Faith and Fellowship Site, a worldwide cyberspace gathering of Friends. Here is a quote from the site's home page: "It is in this spirit that Quaker Faith and Fellowship has endeavored to open a cyberspace community which offers cyberspace meeting for worship to whoever, whenever and wherever need is felt." Another good site to visit is The Conservative Friend, an outreach of the Ohio Yearly Meeting.
Quaker groups also have more local associations, called Monthly Meetings. North Main Friends has applied for membership under the care of the Rockingham Monthly Meeting in Harrisonburg, Virginia. There is also another Friends' group not too far away in Atlanta, the Chattahoochee Friends. We also appear on The Friends Christian Renewal Site.
As you can see, conservative Quakers are small in number, but extremely active in many places around the world. If you are local to Greenville, SC, we cordially invite you to our local meeting. If you have arrived at this site from another place, we encourage you to find out more about the Quaker community by exploring the rest of this site, or the links you will find here.
North Main Friends' worshippers have made a decision to become a support to the nearby Triune Mercy Center. Triune provides meals for the less fortunate of our community, and does so every day of the week. We are scheduled to be at Triune the third 1st Day (Sunday) of every month for lunch. At this time, North Main Friends provides, prepares, and serves numerous hungry people. Our next scheduled time for this activity, is 1st Day, January 18. We have had many friends outside our meeting join us for and contribute to these events, and we sincerely thank them for their efforts.
We are also collecting blankets for a homeless shelter, with the final collection day being January 12th, 2009. This effort is a project of Greenville Friends, another Quaker group that meets at Furman. If you would like any more information, contact us through our contact page.
The pictures on this site come from two sources. The photographs were taken in the Shenandoah Valley, in the area where Friends from the Rockingham Monthly Meeting live. The artwork is by North Main Friends member Henry Mitchell. He calls these works "constructions", and the construction on this page is from the Lift Series. The Lift Series was inspired by the words of Jesus from the Gospel of John, Chapter 12, Verse 32.