YOUNG FRIENDS
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Raleigh Friends
Meeting
625 Tower
Street, Raleigh, NC 27607, (919) 821-4414
All are welcome at Meeting for Worship each First-Day (Sunday) at 10 AM
Raleigh Friends Meeting welcomes
young people to participate in our "First-Day School" (Sunday school)
and other youth activities. Here's a typical schedule of youth activities on
a Sunday morning:
- 10:00 AM - People of all ages
participate together in the first 15 minutes or so of worship in the silence
(see descriptions elsewhere on this website). Parents
of the very young can choose whether to bring an infant or toddler to this
or any other parts of the worship period or take them to be watched by a child-care
person during this time.
- 10:15 AM - When the youth program
leaders indicate that it is time, pre-school and school-age kids go to the
classrooms. A variety of topics, crafts, service projects, life stories, and
foundations of religious experience are discussed, worked on, and planned.
- 11:00 AM - Young people who have
attended one of the First-Day School groups then re-join the others in the
worship room for the announcement period, which is followed by refreshments
and unstructured time together. For young people whose parents choose to stay
for an adult-oriented "Second Hour" discussion,
there is usually a good collection of young people who enjoy a continuation
of unstructured time until about 1:20 or 1:30 PM.
Intergenerational events, such as
movie nights, picnics, pot-luck meals, etc. often will be posted at the top
of the Events page.