Raleigh
Friends Meeting
625 Tower
ST, Raleigh, NC 27607, (919) 821-4414
Links to Organizations
A worldwide listing of Friends organizations is available at http://www.quaker.org/
QuakerFinder.org is a handy way to search for US quaker meetings by city
Another listing of Friends organizations is available at http://www.quakerinfo.com
Piedmont Friends Fellowship activities are posted on a page of this website.
Friends General Conference, the regional body to which our Meeting is affiliated, has a website at http://www.fgcquakers.org/
Quaker House in Fayetteville at http://www.quakerhouse.org/ offers Friends witness regarding military service and recruitment. Draft counceling services, including the GI Rights Hotline (see next item) are available for those who are conscienciously opposed to military service. Their e-mail address is quakerhse@aol.com. Quaker House is supported by Raleigh Friends Meeting.
GI Rights Hotline: The hotline asists servicepeople who are seeking discharged and want to know their rights and other factual informaiton regarding termination of military service. The website for the hotline is at http://www.girightshotline.org/. The GI Rights hotline number is (877) 447-4487.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), http://www.afsc.org is a worldwide service organization founded and supported by Friends.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), http://www.fcnl.org/ is a lobby group in Washington, D.C. The FCNL provides information in support of issues such as religious liberty, Native American self-determination and treaty rights, documentation of defence expenditures, and many other subjects that have been idenified as priorities by Monthly Meetings and individual Friends that support the work of the FCNL.
Genealogical information can be researched at http://www.qfhs.mcmail.com/ .
If you are still trying to locate a Friends Meeting, and you can't find it on the worldwide list (first item, above), then you might learn something by reading an excellent article at http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/quakerism/42798 .
Peace and Social Justice Links
There are many websights devoted to peace and justice issues. A few are listed below for your possible reference.
The site http://www.quakerhouse.org/ describes work related to draft counseling, consciencious objection to war, and the work of Quaker House, an organization supported by Raleigh Friends Meeting and other Friends Meetings in the area.
The site http://www.communityforpeace.net has a focus on Winston-Salem and Greensboro.
The site http://www.ncpeaceaction.org/ describes PeaceAction, with a focus on what that organization is doing in the state.
The site http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ has a national focus on peace issues.