The Three Rivers Circles

Center: What is at the Center of our work and Community?

Faithfulness: listening for the Divine and following the Leadings we hear.

Purpose: What is the vision Three Rivers has for why it is meeting?

To reclaim and reinvent Quaker practice for current times so that all can feel welcomed into deepening faithfulness. 

Values: What important commitments do we want to remember as we worship, serve, and connect?

• A Desire for Ever-Deepening Faithfulness and Witness

• A Christian Rootedness that Welcomes Diverse Theologies

• Holding Quaker Traditions, History, and Practices in View

• The Spiritual Power of Creative and Artistic Practices 

• Radical Hospitality

• Queer-affirming

• Trauma-Sensitive Culture and Healing

• Care for Families and Young People

• Watershed Discipleship

• Decolonization and Racial Justice

• Starting from a culture of Yes 

• A Willingness to Change Forms to Follow Life

• Recognition of Spiritual Authority, including Care, Support, and Accountability

• Understanding that Deep Relationships Provide the Conditions for All the Above 

Practices: What are the things that Three Rivers does?

• Regular Reflection on Values 

• Encouragement of Ministry Resonant with Values

• Encouragement for Faithful Experimentation

• Communal Discernment and Spiritual Accompaniment

• Support of Events and Projects 

• Faithful Use of Technology

• Regular Small Group Gatherings 

• Land Acknowledgement

Supported Projects and Events

• Bi-Weekly Semi-Programmed Online Thursday Worship

• Dinner Church

• Weekly Online Vespers on Sunday Evenings

• Member Offerings

  • Responding to the Call

  • What Makes Worship Gathered?

  • Listening for Life

As Adopted February 2021 and published to threeriversmeeting.org/circles