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If you wanted to find a place to worship with Friends (Quakers) in your area or in some place you were visiting, how would you do it? How can you use the Internet in such a search?
You can find a lot of Friends meetings and churches (congregations) on the World Wide Web, but it may not be easy. There is no site that contains all, or even a very large proportion, of Friends congregations. There is only one list of meetings of which I am aware that contains a large number and includes meetings on more than one continent.
Where Do I Look?
If you don't find anything in your area on that list, you generally need to find the yearly meeting(s) serving the area. A yearly meeting is the Friends equivalent of a diocese, annual conference or district in other denominations. Because of divisions among Friends, there is often more than one yearly meeting serving an area.
Most yearly meetings in areas of the world where there is a substantial proportion of the population with Internet access have a Web site or at least an email address. Most yearly meeting Web sites include directories of member congregations. However, the majority of the world's Friends are in poorer areas where few have Internet access. Yearly meetings in these areas usually do not have Web sites, and only a few have email addresses. Check my Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meetings and Broader Bodies on the Internet Web page for a listing of yearly meeting Web and email addresses.
Canada and the United States
I am treating North America north of the Mexican border as a special case. Information is usually available via the Internet for these North American congregations, but it can be hard to determine which yearly meeting Web sites to check. For example, who would know that the geographical area covered by Western Yearly Meeting is western Indiana and Illinois? Please see my separate page on Finding North American Friends Meetings and Churches for a listing of where to look by state.
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