About Keystone Fellowship Friends

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. - 1 John 1:7

Our meetings are held in various locations, generally in Lancaster, Chester, and Cumberland Counties in Pennsylvania. We meet most weeks in members' homes or in local meetinghouses. We do not have our own meetinghouse. We extend a warm welcome to visitors to join us for our Meetings for Worship, our meals, and our fellowship together. Please see our Calendar page for a listing of meeting times and places.

Our official name is Keystone Fellowship Monthly Meeting. This means that we meet once each month to conduct the business of the meeting. Our monthly meeting is part of Stillwater Quarterly Meeting, a group of monthly meetings that meets quarterly to conduct business relating to the larger group. Stillwater Quarterly Meeting is part of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Ohio Yearly Meeting is a conservative yearly meeting tracing its roots to the Wilburite branch of Friends.

We do not have hired ministers or pastors. When it becomes evident to the meeting that God has given one of us a gift such as ministry, oversight, or eldering, we recognize and record that gift as one coming from God. We also appoint a treasurer and a clerk (secretary) to assist with the meeting's business.

In the Society of Friends, membership is recorded at the monthly meeting level. When a person gains membership inwardly in the living Church of Christ, he or she usually feels a need to affiliate with a religious society where one's Christian faith can grow as he or she walks together with brothers and sisters in the Lord. We encourage those who feel led to affiliate with our monthly meeting simply to live as a member, joining with us for our times of worship and fellowship. When it becomes evident that a person has become one with us in faith and in practice, we can record that person as a member of our monthly meeting.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. --Ephesians 4:4-6.