How to Donate*

Abington Monthly Meeting gratefully accepts contributions, and there are a few different ways to give:

*If you are donating for a specific designated purpose, please indicate that with your donation.

Donate by Check
If you wish to mail us a check (sending cash through the mail is never a good idea), please make your check payable to “Abington Monthly Meeting” and address your envelope to:

Abington Monthly Meeting
Attn: Assistant Treasurer
520 Meetinghouse Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046-2954

Donate by Direct Withdrawal
You can make a gift directly from your checking or savings account to the Meeting’s account, either as a one-time contribution or a scheduled monthly or quarterly amount. Scheduled amounts can be changed or stopped with just 3 days’ notice. All contributions will appear on your bank statement. Join fellow Members and Attenders in this convenient method of contribution. Consider whether spreading your contributions out throughout the year might make budgeting easier for you AND the Meeting! Click Here for Direct Debit Form. Please call Assistant Treasurer Amelia Diamond, or contact the Meeting office at amm@abingtonfriends.net, if you have questions or need assistance filling out the form. Please return the form to Loretta Fox, Meeting Administrator, in the Office or by email.

Donate by Credit Card
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s (PYM’s) donations webpage has a section for contributions to Monthly and Quarterly Meetings. This is a secure way to give online. It’s also an easy way to set up an automated recurring gift to Abington Meeting or to Abington Quarterly Meeting. Click Here to donate by credit card and please be sure to designate "Abington Monthly Meeting" for your donation.

PYM is offering this service as a way to help monthly and quarterly meetings with their fundraising efforts and as a convenience for meeting members, attenders, or anyone else who wants to support our efforts. Here are the details:

Donations can be by credit card or by automated clearing house (ACH) checking account withdrawal.
Friends can make a one-time gift or set up a recurring gift.
The frequency can be once, every other week, monthly, quarterly, twice yearly or yearly.
Recurring gifts can be ongoing or limited to an end date or total gift amount.
Friends have direct access to independently change or cancel their gift at any time.
Friends will receive an email receipt from QGiv, PYM’s online donations processor.
PYM will send a quarterly check for the total amount that was donated to the monthly meeting.
PYM will send a quarterly statement of the donor names and amount of the gifts.

Friends can contact Joey Leroux, Development Support Coordinator at jleroux@pym.org to change or cancel their gift at any time.

Donate using VENMO
You can make a gift to Abington Friends Meeting through Venmo by using our Venmo name @AbingtonQuakers. We do pay a small fee for Venmo donations, but this system makes donating easier for many Friends.

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Planning your Visit

New to Abington Friends Meeting?

All are welcome to attend Meeting for Worship at Abington Friends Meeting!

Our official name is: Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. We are called "monthly" because we meet once a month to attend to business, but we have meeting for worship every Sunday.

Indoor Meeting for Worship
10:00 AM until 11:00 AM
Year-round

First Day School (Adult Class)
Occasional Sundays, September – May
11:15 AM. All ages welcome.
First Day School consists of talks and activities that provide a Quaker perspective on the issues and challenges of everyday life.

First Day School (Children and Teens)
All Sundays, September - May
10:15 AM
Activities are offered for high schoolers, middle schoolers, and elementary school children. Click Here to register.

Outdoor Meeting for Worship
Every Sunday, mid-June - Labor Day (weather permitting)
10:00 AM until 11:00 AM (happening at the same time as indoor Meeting for Worship)
In addition to our normal indoor Meeting for Worship, we hold optional outdoor Meetings behind the Meeting House during the summer.

Childcare
Childcare for children up to age six is available on the second floor of the Meeting House, at the end of the building and to your left.

Parking
Members and attenders park on the right side of the driveway leading up to the Meeting House (accessible from Greenwood Avenue) or in the parking lot on the west side of the Meeting House (accessible from Meetinghouse Road). Please note that our meetinghouse driveways are one-way, so vehicles must enter from Greenwood Avenue.

Orientation
As you enter the Meetinghouse, which is what we call our place of worship, the room where the Meeting gathers will be the first door on your right. The John Barnes Room, which is where we meet for adult classes, special events, or business, will be the first door on your left.

Meeting Etiquette
Because Quakers worship in silence, please lower your voice when approaching the Meeting House before Meeting for Worship. Likewise, please silence your cellphone.

There is no pastor or minister. Instead, attenders rise and speak when the Spirit moves them, generally keep their comments brief and of a spiritual, heartfelt nature, and allow ample time for others to reflect on what has been said before rising to speak. Statements often have a common thread; however, this is not a requirement.

Please browse around this website for other important information!