To maintain our individual faith communities, we organize ourselves into monthly meetings (such as Mt Toby) and larger groupings.   These larger Quaker organizations and other independent Quaker groups have numerous web resources about such topics as the history, organization, practices and beliefs of Friends.

Mt Toby Friends Meeting is one of about 60 Quaker Meetings in New England that are affiliated with New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM).  Friends General Conference (FGC), is an association of non-pastoral Quaker meetings throughout the United States and Canada. Friends United Meeting (FUM), an association of Friends Churches around the world, comprises largely programmed (pastoral) Quaker Meetings. Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) acts in a consultative capacity to promote better understanding among Friends the world over.

Quaker practice is founded in our faith that all people can have direct, inward experience of the divine and be healed and guided by this experience.  Because Quakers do not have any creed or dogma, understanding faith and practice among Friends relies largely on learning about the direct experiences of other Quakers.  The web resources below are a good place to start exploring this topic.

• NEYM publishes the Faith and Practice of our Yearly Meeting.  It tells the story of our faith through our history and the experiences of individuals.  It also describes some of the organizational guidance and practices we use to sustain our faith communities.

• Quaker.org is the web home of the Friends Publishing Corporation,an independent Quaker nonprofit organization.  Friends Publishing also produces:
  • Friends Journal a monthly magazine of contemporary Quaker writing, and,
  • QuakerSpeak series on YouTube which produces a new video every two weeks featuring contemporary Friends.

• The Earlham School of Religion hosts the Quaker Information Center  which has online information about Quaker beliefs & practices, history, organizations, literature, book lists and more.