Friends? is meeting Quaker?: Not Quakers

» Bill_Samuel - Not Quakers

That helps. Key is that they are not just a local group, but there are a number of local fellowships. These would not be Quakers. They sound more like some sort of old order Anabaptists. Anabaptists did not have paid pastors until the last century, and a number of the more traditional Anabaptist groups have maintained that testimony. The service sounds somewhat similar to an Old Order River Brethren service I attended once. There are quite a number of variants on these Anabaptist groups.

Do they dress plain?

Anabaptists come out of a different time and setting than Quakers, but there are a lot of similarities in both faith and practice. Some of the earliest Friends denounced Anabaptists because of their practices of water baptism and outward communion, but Friends and Anabaptists have worked closely together here in the USA virtually since both groups had people over here.

-- posted by Bill_Samuel