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Welcome to the Willamette Quarterly Meeting Website

Willamette Quarterly Meeting (WQM) is a regional association of Quakers and was established in 1958 as Oregon Quarterly Meeting.

Its constituent groups are the Monthly Meetings in Oregon and the Preparative Meetings and Worship Groups, as well as Boise Valley Monthly Meeting (Idaho) and interested persons in the region isolated from any established Friends group. 

WQM is one of three Quarterly Meetings within North Pacific Yearly Meeting
(NPYM). A history of WQM is available from the WQM Clerk.

The purposes of WQM are:

1. to nurture the spiritual life of Friends of all ages and to provide fellowship within the Quarter;

2. to encourage inter-visitation among the Monthly Meetings, Worship Groups, any Preparative Meetings and Isolated Friend;

3. to share State of Society Reports from the constituent groups at the Spring meeting;

4. to provide Ministry and Oversight functions for North Pacific Yearly Meeting at Annual Session along with the Ministry and Oversight Committees from the other two Quarters;

5. to hear concerns from Meetings or individuals, forwarding those approved to the Clerk of the Annual Session or the Clerk of NPYM Steering Committee;

6. to nurture new gatherings of Friends; to consider requests for Monthly Meeting status from Preparative Meetings and Worship Groups; to consider requests from Monthly Meetings to be laid down or united with another Meeting; and

7. to provide a forum for committees to meet as needed during Quarterly Meetings.

 

Source: Text slightly edited version of  the opening paragraphs from the 2008WQM Handbook