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Welcome To South Bend Friends Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

One of several paintings of of the Peaceable Kingdom by Quaker artist Edward Hicks

Peace is a way of being and living, not just a goal

Those who are brought to a pure still waiting upon God in the spirit are come nearer to the Lord than words are; for God is a spirit and in the spirit is he worshipped...In such a meeting there will be an unwillingness to part asunder, being ready to say in yourselves, it is good to be here: and this is the end of all words and writings to bring people to the eternal living Word.


--Alexander Parker, 1660

Presence IV, 1989, by Ron Waddams, a Quaker artist and a member of Chilterns Area Quaker Meeting, England. See Larren Art for more.