Sun October 4
Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
9:30am
Venue: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
We make decisions that involve the Meeting as a whole by assembling in a monthly meeting for business. These gatherings are treated as a meeting for worship and begin with a short period of expectant silence. Because Quakers believe in “that of God in every one,” care is taken to hear the perspectives of each one present. Rather than voting and settling for majority rule, Quakers seek unity as perceived in a “sense of the meeting.” While the process resembles decision-making by consensus, Quakers are listening to the gathered voices in order to discern God’s will for the meeting. A “clerk” facilitates the meeting for business, and a “recording clerk” summarizes the decisions of the monthly meeting in written minutes.
Sun October 4
Children's First Day School
10:30am
Venue: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
Children and teens participate in First Day School activities under the guidance of attentive teachers and sometimes attend the last 5-15 minutes of worship. Childcare is provided for children pre-K and younger.
Sun October 4
Meeting for Worship
10:45am
Venue: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
We gather and meet in silence to listen to that of God within and speak only when led to do so. Because everyone has that of God in them, anyone may speak. Friends usually pause between messages to allow the words to be fully appreciated. The end of meeting for worship is marked by shaking hands or otherwise greeting one another.
Hockessin Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, in the State of Delaware, assembled on Third month 2nd day, 2025, in meeting for worship with attention to business, affirms its support for the lawsuit that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and other yearly and monthly meetings have filed against the Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit challenges a policy that would allow immigration agents to carry out enforcement actions at places of worship. We believe that all people have the right to the free exercise of religion and to peaceably assemble and that such a policy would interfere with the ability to worship without fear. Central to our form of worship is recognizing “that of God in everyone.” Fundamentally, all individuals are sacred and deserving of equal respect. Furthermore, we follow in a long tradition that calls us to welcome the stranger and includes the divine mandate, “Any immigrant who lives with you must be treated as if they were one of your citizens. You must love them as yourself...” (Lev. 19:34). For these reasons, we add our voices in support of the lawsuit.
More information about the lawsuit is available on Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s website: https://www.pym.org/category/peace-social-justice/dhs-lawsuit/
Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse, 1501 Old Wilmington Road, Hockessin, DE, 19707
Every Sunday at 10:45am
302-239-2223
First Day School for Children: 10:30 a.m. (weekly)
✓ Wheelchair access
✓ Wheelchair accessible toilet
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