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New South Wales Regional Meeting

About Us

14 Meetings for Worship
206 Members
0 Children of the Meeting
139 Attenders

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which we live, and pay our respects to the Elders past, present, and future.

We hold in our hearts all those who have and are suffering from war and natural disasters, anywhere in the world.

Breaking News - Devonshire Street meeting house has been sold

Welcome

Quakers in NSW are a spiritual community without creed, dogma or statement of belief. We seek to express our Testimonies - our principles of simplicity, peace, integrity, compassion, equality and earth care - in our everyday lives, based on our experience of the Spirit that dwells in every person.

Meeting for worship

Our meeting for worship is central to our spiritual life. Quakers gather in silence, usually on a Sunday. In silence, we actively listen for the Spirit within. When moved by the Spirit, someone may speak, and their words emerge from the silence and lead back into the dynamic silence. Marriages, funerals, and other special-purpose meetings are also held in a spirit of silent worship.

Anyone is welcome to join us in Meeting for Worship.

We have 14 Meetings in NSW, but some are widely scattered. The Kiama Meeting has recently been laid down, but for people in the area, there is still a Meeting at Thirroul. A new Meeting may be starting up at Dorrigo - watch this space!

To find out about online meetings for worship, click here.

How we manage our affairs

Australian Quakers do not ordain priests, ministers or pastors. Instead, the responsibility for the spiritual life of the Meeting, pastoral care, and managing our affairs is shared by the group. The Clerk of each Meeting is the person to contact for any information.

Each local meeting runs its own affairs. Meetings for worship for business, or 'business meetings', are held in a spirit of worship. All Friends are encouraged to participate. New South Wales holds regular regional meetings for worship for business, which deal with affairs at a state level, and these are held online.  We participate with Friends from around Australia in the annual Yearly Meeting. Our official title is the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), New South Wales Regional Meeting Inc.

To learn more about legal compliance and other issues, visit our Governance page.

Postal address

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), NSW Regional Meeting, c/- 59 Boundary Road Wahroonga NSW 2076

Meetings for Worship

Armidale NSW
Worship Times:
1st and 3rd Sundays at 10am
4 Oakura Avenue
Woodford NSW
Worship Times:
Meets 10.15 am each Sunday at Woodford
Kariong Eco Garden, ,2 Dandaloo Street
Kariong NSW
Worship Times:
Meets on 2nd and 4th Sundays at 10am
Portland NSW
Worship Times:
Meets 1st and 3rd Sundays 11 am, 2nd Fridays
Pilgrim House Community Room 262 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW
Worship Times:
Meets Sundays 10:45am
NSW
Worship Times:
Every Sunday at 5.00pm. This meeting meets online by Zoom every week. It is hosted by Peter Hillery of Bega Meeting. Please contact Peter for details to participate. All are welcome. Because it meets online, it does not have a physical address, so is not shown on the map.
Eastern Star Hall, 23 Valencia Street (corner Villiers Street)
Mayfield NSW
Worship Times:
Every Sunday at 10am
Worship Times:
Meetings are no longer held.
Kyogle NSW
Worship Times:
2nd & 4th Sundays 10:00 am
Nambucca Heads NSW
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Nambucca Heads to Coffs Harbour area, Northern NSW Meets by arrangement (usually twice monthly) at Repton and Nambucca
Mullumbimby NSW
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This Worship Group meets every Sunday morning at 10am. All are welcome.
Lismore Church of Christ, 39 Rous Road (Corner of Rous Road and Pleasant Street
Goonellabah NSW
Worship Times:
Each Sunday 2.30pm
Thirroul NSW
Worship Times:
Meets monthly on 3rd Sundays at 2pm
Katoomba
NSW
Worship Times:
Every Thursday at 2pm
59 Boundary Road
Wahroonga NSW
Worship Times:
Meets weekly on Sundays at 9.30am