Meeting Times and Location

MEETING for WORSHIP: SUNDAYS at 10 am
VILLAGE GREEN, 26159 Dulay Rd NE, Kingston, WA 98346

(Click on VIllage Green above for more detailed directions)

On January 7, 2018
We met for the last time at Seabold Hall
to honor our time in this lovely hall for the past 20 years.
We still have small home Meetings on Bainbridge Island.

For Bainbridge Island Meeting notifications, or other questions
please email: lisadownhome@gmail.com

ALL ARE WELCOME!
Attenders are invited to stay after Meeting for fellowship
so we have a chance to get to know each other
and answer questions for newcomers.

For more information about Quaker practice,
See: Silent Worship and Quaker Values

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Mailing Address: PO Box 1821, Poulsbo, WA 98370
For more information, please email: agatepassageclerk@gmail.com

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LINKS to OTHER QUAKER ORGANIZATIONS

QUAKER VOICE
A Quaker Voice in Olympia
(Formerly Friends Committee
on Washington Public Policy)

FCNL
Friends Committee on National Legislation

QUAKER EARTHCARE WITNESS

WESTERN FRIEND
The official publication of Quakers in Pacific,
North Pacific and Intermountain Yearly Meetings

Agate Passage Friends is a member of the
NORTH PACIFIC YEARLY MEETING

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SI A LA VIDA
This organization in Nicaragua has been supported by some Agate Passage Friends.
The project was founded in 1994 as a residential program for homeless street kids.
This was a new phenomenon as the meager social safety net for kids began
to unravel in the early 1990s. In response, the late Jonathan Roise, a Seattle Quaker,
and Mercedes Guido, a Nicaraguan activist, began offering first-aid and friendship
to the street kids. Ometepe is an island in southwest Nicaragua’s vast Lake Nicaragua.
Ometepe Coffee is sold locally. Si a la Vida is still active today.

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About Agate Passage Friends

Agate Passage Friends is a Quaker Meeting serving North Kitsap and Bainbridge Island located across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA. This is an unprogrammed Meeting dedicated to sustaining traditional Quaker values and practices, and rely on the Quaker belief "There is that of God" in everyone.

Quakers share common roots with the Age of Enlightenment that arose in England in the 17th Century. Founder George Fox, believed in the possibility of direct, unmediated communion with the Divine and a commitment to living lives that outwardly attest to this inward experience.

The silent hour of worship is a time of setting aside our usual patterns of thought, analyzing, and worry. During silent worship, we await guidance and renewal in the richness of receptive silence. We sit patiently awaiting inspiration, should it come, and to increase our sense of inner peace.

Inspiration may come as a new insight with regard to oneself or may lead us to spiritual insights that would help the Meeting, our family, neighbors or social concerns of the larger community. Individuals who feel moved to do so may express these ideas briefly and clearly aloud. After speaking, the group continues in silent worship before the silence again is broken, if at all, during the rest of the Meeting.

There is also the ministry of listening, of hearing what is behind the words that are spoken, of holding those words up to the Light, to know "that of God" in the speaker. While vocal ministry is of great value, some of our richest spiritual experiences come in completely silent Meetings.

Out of sitting silently in the Light have come Quaker Testimonies for Peace, Simplicity, Equality, and Community. Through these Testimonies, Quakers have become actively involved in many social concerns based on nonviolence and human rights, such as environmental and educational issues, working for peace in international relations, and prison reform. Friends are well known for their significant work in assisting slaves as they fled North before and during the Civil War, and encouraging alternatives to war. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has provided immense support for wounded individuals and damaged communities during wars around the world.

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QUAKERS IN NORTH KITSAP: A BRIEF HISTORY

In the late 1970s, a Worship Group soon named Agate Passage Friends, gathered in Indianola
and met weekly in different homes. Our Meeting name represents unity of our Members and Attenders, then and now, who live on both sides of Agate Passage. Some of our worshippers previously attended University Friends or other Meetings. In 1995, Agate Passage Friends began to hold regular Meetings for Worship at Seabold Hall and became a Monthly Meeting in 2004.

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