Monthly Meetings and Worship Groups

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.  If you plan an in-person visit, however, it is best to consult their website and then make personal phone or email contact before you go, keeping in mind that websites are not always kept up-to-date.

To find Friends groups outside of Pacific YM, try using FGC Quaker Finder.

For the following table, sort by any column, clicking on its heading. Most groups are named after the city they meet in, but quite a few are not. Sorting by zip code will show groups in the same geographic region on the list. Websites are linked from the meeting title in the table; website, address, and contacts are included in the map that follow

Type	Name	City	State/Country	ZIP
MM	Guatemala	Antigua or Guatemala City	Guatemala
MM	Humboldt	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 formally affiliated with PYM.

Map of our Meetings:

This experimental map includes most addresses, website links, and contact info for meetings. While we try to keep them both updated, there may be some inconsistencies between the table and map. The map is generally more comprehensive (last updated June 2020).

Click the icon to the left of the map title to see a list of meetings by name. It is often easier to open the map in a separate window with this link .

You can select a meeting by clicking its name in the side panel or clicking on its icon on the map. When you select a meeting, the side panel will display the address, contact info, and website link for the meeting. Smaller worship groups change locations and conveners frequently, or go dark for a period of time. It’s a good idea to check the Monthly Meeting they’re under the care of – if you know it, or the Quarterly Meeting they belong to for updates. The Quarterly Meeting sites also maintain much of this same information: 
College Park Quarterly Meeting Website
Southern California Quarterly Meeting Website

Map Key:
Generally speaking, monthly meetings that have their own meeting house building have a red “House of Worship” icon. Meetings that meet in buildings belonging to others are blue, and worship groups are in yellow. If we mis-labeled your meeting or worship group, let us know, and we’ll update it.

Some meetings rent their worship space, and Google Maps inserts a website link to the church or business they rent space from by default, which can be a bit confusing. We’ve done our best to indicate this in the list.

There are some more detailed instructions for using the map and its features on this page: https://www.pacificyearlymeeting.org/map-instructions/

For extra fun, you can download the following KML file and import it into Google Earth too: