Friends General Conference - Mission Statement

Mission Statement

The Friends General Conference is a Quaker organization in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends which primarily serves affiliated yearly and monthly meetings. The statement of purpose reads:

Friends General Conference, with Divine guidance, nurtures the spiritual vitality of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by providing programs and services for Friends, meetings, and seekers.

Major Goals

• Nurture meetings and worship groups.
• Provide resources and opportunities for meetings, Friends, and seekers to experience the Light, the living presence of God.
• Help meetings guide Friends to discern the leadings of the Inward Teacher and to grow into ministry.
• Transform our awareness so that our corporate and individual attitudes and actions fully value and encompass the blessed diversity of our human family.
• Work to grow and sustain a vital, diverse, and loving community of Friends based on a shared search for unity in the Spirit.
• Articulate, communicate, and exemplify Friends' practices, core experiences, and the call to live and witness to our faith.
• Promote dialogue with others, sharing with them our corporate experience of Divine Truth and listening to and learning from their experience of the same.