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NEW! Ministry of the Month*

May 2012
FUM Africa Ministries Office (AMO)


Since the opening of the Africa Ministries Office in Kisumu, Kenya, in 2005, there has been a great hunger in East Africa for training, discipleship, accountability, capacity building, and relevant holistic mission. AMO staff members (pictured, left to right) Judith Ngoya, John Muhanji, and Eden Grace have faithfully been addressing these issues, as well as attending and offering insight at the board meetings of Lugulu and Kaimosi hospitals, Samburu and Turkana missions, and Lindi Friends School.

The AMO staff are also responsible for: the financial accountability of these project partners; coordinating FUM’s 17 member yearly meetings in East Africa; assisting another project partner—Friends Church Peace Team—in implementing the new peace curriculum in the local secondary schools; ensuring the safety and care of the many travelers who come to visit each year; getting building and well projects approved, funded, and turned over to the responsible parties, etc.

These three staff members obviously have a lot on their plates. Thank you for supporting them with your prayers and donations this month!

Read more about the AMO and Friends Church Peace Team in the May 2012 issue of FOCUS (pdf).


*Each month through December 2012, we will focus on a different ministry of Friends United Meeting. This "Ministry of the Month" corresponds with the FUM wall calendar that is available for $7.50 from the Friends United Press Shopping Center.
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Weekly Devotional and Prayer

A meditation: Wander back in time—way back—before endless empty discussions of how many angels fit on the head of a pin, before long standing subjugation of women, before the Inquisition and the pain and suffering it caused, before Constantine's convenient conversion and his order to paint crosses on soldiers' shields. Allow yourself to spend some time with the earliest followers of Jesus, the women and men who knew him, and those who followed the first disciples.

What I know of those early days from reading Scripture and studying history and from the reflections of faithful lives among Friends is that the center is forgiveness, not judgment; unity not exclusion; relationship not dogma. I see a call to embrace community, seeking the kingdom of God—the experience of the Divine—in daily life. I see people who hold certain the knowledge that faith and action are inescapably connected. I want that back.

Join me in revitalization. Call it what you will. Call it Christianity. Call it good common sense. Call it “Judeo-Christian moral-ethical infrastructure with a Greek philosophical overlay.” William Penn called it "primitive Christianity revived" and personally I like that. Whatever you call it, consider it. And after considering, join together in creating a time and a place without the occasion of war, where we all can live a life close to God and close to each other. It is our heritage as Friends, and it’s time to re-claim it.

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