There are two types of Quaker groups (congregations) in Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM):
- Monthly Meetings (MM) meet weekly for unprogrammed worship and monthly to conduct business.
- Worship Groups (WG) generally only meet for worship, usually weekly but in some cases less frequently.
All are welcome to attend worship and other activities with these Meetings and Worship Groups. Most of them maintain information about their locations and meeting times on their own websites. In this time of Covid-19 sheltering-in-place, many meetings are meeting online. Western Friend Magazine is maintaining a list of opportunities for online worship. If you plan an in-person visit, it is best to consult their website and then make personal phone or email contact before you go. (Websites are not always kept up-to-date.)
Most groups are named after the city they meet in, but quite a few are not. The following table is arranged alphabetically by city, not by meeting name. To find Friends groups outside of Pacific YM, try using FGC Quaker Finder.
Most of PYM’s local meetings are organized by geographic region into two larger quarterly meetings:
- College Park Quarterly Meeting (CPQM) comprises northern California and northern Nevada.
- Southern California Quarterly Meeting (SCQM) includes southern California and southern Nevada.
- PYM meetings in Hawaii and Mexico are not part of a quarterly meeting.
Sort by any column by clicking on it’s heading. Sorting by zip code will (generally) show meetings in the same geographic region on the list. For addresses and contacts, use the map that follows.
Type | Name | City | State/Country | ZIP |
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MM | Guatemala | Antigua or Guatemala City | Guatemala | |
MM | Arcata | CA | 95518 | |
WG | Placer County | Auburn? | CA | |
MM | Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | 94709 |
MM | Strawberry Creek | Berkeley | CA | 94703 |
MM | Monterey Peninsula | Carmel | CA | 93923 |
WG | Carson City (Independent*) | Carson City | NV | 89703 |
MM | Mendocino | Caspar | CA | 95420 |
MM | Chico | Chico | CA | 95928 |
MM | Claremont | Claremont | CA | 91711 |
MM | Davis | Davis | CA | 95616 |
MM | Fresno | Fresno | CA | 93710 |
WG | Maui | Haiku | HI | |
MM | Honolulu | Honolulu | HI | 96822 |
MM | Orange County | Irvine | CA | 92612 |
WG | Sierra Foothills | Jackson | CA | |
WG | Kauai | Kapa'a | HI | |
WG | Molokai' | Kaunakakai | HI | |
MM | Big Island | Kona or Hilo | HI | 96740 |
MM | La Jolla | La Jolla | CA | 92037 |
WG | Lake County | Lakeport | CA | |
WG | Las Vegas | Las Vegas | NV | 89106 |
WG | Livermore | Livermore | CA | |
MM | Marloma/Long Beach | Long Beach | CA | 90804 |
MM | Mexico City | Mexico City | Mexico, DF | |
MM | Napa | Napa | CA | 94558 |
MM | Grass Valley | Nevada City | CA | 95959 |
WG | Conejo Valley | Newbury Park | CA | 91320 |
WG | Oakland | Oakland | CA | 94619 |
WG | Oaxaca | Oaxaca | Mexico, Oaxaca | |
WG | Ojai | Ojai | CA | 93023 |
MM | Palo Alto | Palo Alto | CA | 94301 |
MM | Orange Grove | Pasadena | CA | 91104 |
MM | Redding | Redding | CA | 96001 |
WG | Southern Humboldt | Redway | CA | |
MM | Reno | Reno | NV | 89512 |
MM | Inland Valley | Riverside | CA | 92501 |
MM | Sacramento | Sacramento | CA | 95819 |
MM | Live Oak | Salinas | CA | 93901 |
MM | San Diego | San Diego | CA | 92105 |
MM | San Francisco | San Francisco | CA | 94103 |
WG | Western Shore | San Francisco | CA | |
MM | San Jose | San Jose | CA | 95126 |
MM | Central Coast | San Luis Obispo | CA | 93401 |
WG | San Mateo | San Mateo | CA | 94402 |
MM | Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | CA | 93105 |
MM | Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz | CA | 95062 |
MM | Santa Monica | Santa Monica | CA | 90404 |
WG | Friends House | Santa Rosa | CA | 95409 |
MM | Redwood Forest | Santa Rosa | CA | 95403 |
MM | Apple Seed | Sebastopol | CA | 95472 |
WG | Soledad | Soledad Prison | CA | |
MM | Delta | Stockton | CA | 95207 |
WG | Ukiah | Ukiah | CA | |
MM | Visalia | Visalia | CA | 93292 |
WG | Whitleaf | Whittier | CA | 90601 |
* The Carson City Worship Group is an independent unprogrammed worship group “in” our area but not affiliated with PYM.