Welcome!

Welcome!

Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting

1904 East Main Street
Urbana, IL 61802
(217) 328-5853


Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting is a Quaker Meeting located in East-Central Illinois.
We are part of Blue River Quarterly Meeting , Illinois Yearly Meeting , and Friends General Conference


Meeting for Worship

Our regular meeting for worship is held Sundays at 10:30 a.m.  (New Time!)  Everyone is welcome! 

Meeting for worship lasts about an hour; most people stay afterwards for announcements, introductions, and social time (including a potluck lunch the first week of every month).

We worship in the traditional manner of Friends, waiting silently until moved to speak, with no professional pastor and no prepared sermons.
meeting for worship
Quaker kids garden
We especially invite children to the first fifteen minutes of Meeting for Worship; then they may stay in worship or join the First Day School at 10:45.  Informal child-care is provided during the summer and on 2nd and 4th Sundays throughout the year.  Formal lessons are offered on 1st and 3rd Sundays during the school year. 

If there are five Sundays in a single month, the fifth Sunday is often devoted to "intergenerational worship," in which the children and adults meet together the entire hour, with a program of activities to promote interaction across generations.

Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting Welcomes Families to Our Meeting for Worship

Getting to our Meetinghouse

Our meetinghouse is located at 1904 East Main Street in Urbana.  For a map showing the location, click here.

We have a small parking lot.  Overflow parking is available at the ILEAS Building (the old Champaign County Nursing Home), 1701 East Main Steet. For more information, see our Parking Map.

The meetinghouse is on the 130 Silver and 150 Urbana Link public bus lines (weekends and evenings), and the 5 Green and 15 Urbana Link lines (weekdays).

A bicycle rack is available at the west end of the building.

Our meetinghouse is wheelchair-accessible.
meetinghouse

cost of war billboard

Urbana-Champaign Monthly Meeting

Our monthly business meeting is the third First Day of each month at 12:15 p.m.  (New Time!)  Visitors are welcome!

Urbana-Champaign Monthly Meeting includes Friends Meeting of Springfield in addition to the local meeting in Urbana.


oak tree

Questions about the meeting may be
directed to our clerk, Sandy Bales:
email address
(217) 367-5784
For matters concerning this web page,
contact Peter Lasersohn:
email address

Some Quaker Links

Friends General Conference Friends World Committee for Consultation
Friends Committee on National Legislation American Friends Service Committee

For more links and information about Quakers, please visit Quaker.org.

Urbana-Champaign Monthly Meeting of Friends
Last updated: 9th Month 1, 2008