“A Tender Time”
Workshop on Navigating the Healthcare System

Firstday June 14th - after Meeting for Worship - 12:30 pm
Plymouth Friends Meeting House, Plymouth Meeting, Pa
and
on Zoom Conferencing using the worship link - click here to request link

How can a Monthly meeting community assist members and attenders as they navigate the
changing health care environment?

Abington Quarterly Meeting Home and Care Committee has been offering their " A Tender Time" workshop to our Monthly Meetings this year. Bonnie Miller, Clerk, and Rebecca Cratin, Administrator, provide resources and open discussions to address the complicated issues that arise with aging and chronic and serious medical conditions. Their presentation focus on how our Quaker process of clearness and support committees can provide the basis of assistance to our members and attenders. Rebecca and Bonnie's personal and professional lives as well as the book "A Tender Time - Quaker Voices on the End of Life" provide the foundation of their workshop. Chapter 6 - Circles of Care: A loving Meeting will be the focus of the presentation. Friends will find all of the chapters helpful in luminating a path for our own journey as we age and ways of accompanying those who we love.

Friends are encourage to pick up a free copy of this book, available at the meeting.

2026-06-Tender Time

From the Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s End of Life Working Group, A Tender Time is a unique collection of Quaker voices, historical and contemporary, that explores practical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of aging and dying well. It moves in widening circles, from aging to dying, and from primary caregiver to friends to the whole faith community. It illustrates how individual Friends make end of life decisions guided by the Spirit and Quaker values.

6/10/2026

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Planning your Visit

The Meetings of Abington Quarter

There are 9 Monthly Meetings in Abington Quarter. You are welcome to find one near you and visit.

All Monthly Meetings hold "unprogrammed" Meeting for Worship each "First Day" (Sunday), although times vary. An unprogrammed Meeting for Worship begins in silence, attending to the "small, still voice within." Spoken ministry is offered as those gathered for worship feel so led.

Each Monthly Meeting has its own uniqueness. Worship times vary among Meetings. Some have singing before worship. Some are more Christo-centric than others. Many offer "blended" worship, with distant members and attenders joining via Zoom those who are gathered in the Meeting House . There are various additional gatherings for sharing, either after worship or at other times throughout the week. Several Meetings have schools under their care.

Check the links to the websites of the various Meetings for times, programs and other specifics, and to get a sense of which Meeting will best align with you.

Links to Meetings of Abington Quarter and their Locations

Each of these Monthly Meetings has their own distinctive flavor: small or large membership, varying diversity of age groups and ethnic, social, economic backgrounds and theology. Monthly Meetings are the composite of all its members as they jointly express their faith.