Join us at 11am each Sunday

906 Friends Station Road

New Market, TN 37820

What to expect at our service:

We gather for worship at the Lost Creek Meeting House ​where the service consists of a mix of hymn and ​contemporary worship songs. We share joy and concerns ​for prayer, have a responsive reading, Andy or Ashlyn ​provide a sermon, and we spend the last 10-15 minutes of ​the service time in silent reflection and open worship.

Quakers will sometimes use unique words and phrases as part of their worship gatherings. Lost Creek may use some ​of these words and phrases but we believe it shouldn't distract from your worship as a someone new or newer to the ​Quaker tradition. In our services, much of the service will look like a typical church service. For silent or waiting ​worship, we take care to explain those pieces of the service each Sunday for the ease of all present.

Some terms or phrases you may hear include:

Meeting: A group of Friends that meets each week for worship, sometimes also called a church. The people are the ​church/meeting and the building is the meetinghouse. Regional bodies are called Yearly Meetings.

Joys and Concerns: A time when Friends are invited to share things from their week that brought them joy or weighs heavily ​on their heart. This sharing allows us to celebrate, grieve, and pray together.

Inner Light/Light of Christ: “The Light” refers to the living presence of God within every person through which we are ​convicted, guided, and purified to become more like Christ.

“All hearts clear?”: A question asked at the conclusion of waiting worship to make sure everyone who was led to share has ​done so and Friends feel ready to move on.

Testimonies: The testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship guide and ground our faith ​and practice. They flows from a life of spiritual deepening and increasing formation in Christ-likeness.

Concern: a deeply-felt sense of personal or social responsibility to pray and act about a problem, need, or opportunity. ​Leading: a sense of being drawn or called to a course of action, often in a response to a Concern and a process of communal ​Discernment.

Discernment: a process of determining whether a decision or direction is rightly aligned with our personal and corporate ​calling, and is Spirit-led.

Centering Down: a process of settling down and setting our attention on Christ and the Spirit in our midst, in the moment.

Clearness/Clearness Committee: A process of seeking divine leading by gathering others to help us listen and discern next ​steps together. Sometimes Friends talk about this as noticing and naming how “Way opens.”

Sense of the Meeting: The sense of united purpose and leading that emerges from the meeting for business (when the ​meeting makes decisions together), instead of a voting-based process.

Faith and Practice: A document of order and stated beliefs that a Yearly Meeting adopts and follows together. Quakers are ​non-creedal but are committed to practices and principles that guide them. The Faith & Practice document often includes ​Advices & Queries for reflection.

Waiting Worship/Open Worship: A time of quiet reflection and expectant waiting upon the Lord. During this time, Friends ​may feel led to share a message to the group. In this sense, everyone is a minister in a Quaker meeting. Everyone can hear and ​respond to God’s voice.