Some meetings maintain neighborly relationships with nearby churches, such as exchanging newsletters or getting together for social activities. Some Friends meetings rent, or meet within, the facilities of other churches. Today most individual Quakers grew up in other faiths or no faith at all. Some may have suffered or felt wounded by earlier religious teachings. A step in the membership process practiced by meetings asks that the applicant be able to lay aside earlier beliefs and may offer messages on healing. In blended families where not everyone is a Quaker, meetings welcome participation as family members are able. Some Quakers find spiritual enrichment in the study of other faith traditions or philosophies.
South Central Yearly Meeting p. 14
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