Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting is part of The Religious Society Of Friends, commonly called Quakers. We are part of Pacific Yearly Meeting and College Park Quarterly Meeting

Our Meeting for Worship is unprogrammed in which we "gather together in expectant silence, waiting upon God."

The religious practices of Friends are founded in direct communion with God and the conviction that the Divine Light is accessible to each person; yet it is one Light, one Truth. We wait with hearts and minds open to the Divine so that Truth will be made known among us.

Our corporate search for God’s word is the heart of the Quaker Meeting for Worship. We believe that God, the Light, the Truth, is part of our being.We say, "There is that of God in everyone". Truth is continually revealed to us, often through a gathered mystical experience. We learn to recognize the truth by experience.

-- Introduction, Pacific Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice 2001

Meeting for Worship is 10:00 a.m. on Sundays at the Berkeley Technology Academy, 2701 Martin Luther King Jr. Way at Derby Street.

Religious education (September - June) and childcare (year round) are provided from 9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Two retreats and several adult religious education events are scheduled each year.

Meetings for business are held on the second Sunday of each month. For more information, contact the clerk, Larry Strain.

The Oakland Worship Group meets Sundays at 5:00 p.m. The worship group is under the care of Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting.

Peace and Social Justice Strawberry Creek Friends are active in many peace, social justice, and environmental organizations. The meeting is especially concerned with the issue of climate change. One of the meeting's responses to this concern is the Dime A Gallon Dream Fund. Participation is voluntary. Friends "tax" themselves ten cents for each gallon or energy equivalent of gasoline they use. The funds have been used to purchase compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Read about Strawberry Creek's Dime A Gallon Dream Fund

Committees and Nominating Friends have no paid clergy, so the work of the meeting is done by the meeting via committees. Read about our different committees.

The Strawberry Creek Yahoo Group.

For information on how to use Strawberry Creek Meeting's electronic resources, including our Yahoo Group, click here.

Strawberry Creek's first web site was created by Ric Forste in 1997. It is currently being maintained by web coordinator Amy Dewey.