{"id":2,"date":"2023-10-06T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilym.org\/lakeforest\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:41:14","slug":"lake-forest-friends-welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ilym.org\/lakeforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Forest Friends Meeting (Quaker)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lake Forest Friends Meeting (LFFM) is a spiritual community of Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, located in Lake Forest, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Join us for First Day (Sunday) worship in-person or\u00a0online.<\/strong> (see the listing of <a href=\"https:\/\/ilym.org\/lakeforest\/meeting-times\/\">worship times<\/a> for links to online sessions.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We invite all to worship with us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us for unprogrammed Quaker meeting for worship. We center without words or music to listen as a community in expectant worship. Out of the silence as called by the Spirit, someone may spontaneously rise and give vocal ministry to the group. We are nourished by our mutual search for our understanding of the Divine. We welcome visitors to our Meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Concurrently with meeting for worship, we welcome children of all ages for an in-person program that includes the study of Friends\u2019 principles, testimonies, history, and Bible stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Once each month we have a meeting for worship with attention to business when we worshipfully consider care of our community and our witness to the world seeking integrity, peace, simplicity, stewardship of the earth, and equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Lake Forest Friends Meeting is part of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ilym.org\/\">Illinois Yearly Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fgcquaker.org\/\">Friends General Conference<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/\">Friends World Committee for Consultation<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Join us in Peace<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For further information, please email us: <a href=\"mailto:lakeforestquakers@gmail.com\">lakeforestquakers@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeForestFriendsMeeting\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest Friends Meeting (LFFM) is a spiritual community of Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, located in Lake Forest, Illinois. Join us for First Day (Sunday) worship in-person or\u00a0online. (see the listing of worship times for links to online sessions.) We invite all to worship with us. Please join us for unprogrammed Quaker meeting for worship. We center without words or music to listen as a community in expectant worship. Out of the silence as called by the Spirit, someone may spontaneously rise and give vocal ministry to the group. We are nourished by our mutual search for our understanding of the Divine. We welcome visitors to our Meeting.\u00a0 Concurrently with meeting for worship, we welcome children of all ages for an in-person program that includes the study of Friends\u2019 principles, testimonies, history, and Bible stories.\u00a0 Once each month we have a meeting for worship with attention to business when we worshipfully consider care of our community and our witness to the world seeking integrity, peace, simplicity, stewardship of the earth, and equality. Lake Forest Friends Meeting is part of: Illinois Yearly Meeting Friends General Conference Friends World Committee for Consultation.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Join us in Peace For further information, please email us: lakeforestquakers@gmail.com Follow us on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lake Forest Friends Meeting (Quaker) - Lake Forest Friends Meeting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lake Forest Friends Meeting (LFFM) is a spiritual community of Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) located in Lake Forest, IL, USA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ilym.org\/lakeforest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lake Forest Friends Meeting (Quaker) - 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