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FUM News in Brief

Posted on 1 May 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

Regina Haag, pastor of Adirondack Friends Meeting, New York, is connecting over coffee with the meeting’s young adult Friends, between the ages of 18-35 (40 if parenting young children), to discuss three general queries: “How are you doing?” “What is the best way to stay in contact with you?” “What can the meeting do to help meet your needs and desires?”…

Great Plains Yearly Meeting Discerns God’s Call

Posted on 1 May 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

By Laura Y. Dungan, Great Plains Yearly Meeting presiding clerk Great Plains Yearly Meeting is beginning to consider its place and purpose among Quakers in middle-America. As part of this process, 53 people from across the Friends theological spectrum gathered in November at University Friends Meeting in Wichita, Kansas. Arthur Larrabee, general secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, facilitated the gathering…

Indiana Yearly Meeting Reconfiguration Update

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The Reconfiguration Task Force met on March 10. David Brindle of Friends Memorial was welcomed to the group and Stephanie Crumley-Effinger, who has had to relinquish her role due to a recent cancer diagnosis, received thanks for her work and service. Tom Hamm was asked to serve as a new co-facilitator and agreed to accept. Please join the task force in…

Iowa Yearly Meeting-FUM Establishes Affiliate Meeting in Minneapolis

Posted on 1 May 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

By Phena Khanjila Shimaka Each one of us is a minister of God’s word in our own unique way. God’s message is spread to people in different ways and he uses every means to spread his message to his people. God is able to see, speak to and hear us no matter where we are in our lives; likewise, each…

North Carolina Yearly Meeting: Pray Without Ceasing

Posted on 1 May 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends seeks, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to equip and energize our meetings in their witness to the love, message and power of the living Christ, encouraging Friends to translate our faith into practice. NCYM has embarked on a prayer campaign this year titled, “Pray Without Ceasing 2012.” Members have been asked to…

What Keeps Spiceland Friends Busy in Indiana?

Posted on 24 April 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

By Richard P. Ratcliff, Spiceland Friends clerk In December, Spiceland Friends Meeting (Indiana Yearly Meeting) held its 56th annual Christmas Eve Cantata and Candlelight Service with 260 in attendance. Recently, 200 new hymnals and 20 new choir chairs were purchased. The roof on the older portion of the meetinghouse is being replaced and two of the six restrooms are being…

News in Brief

Posted on 24 April 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

Friends from Mooresville, Indiana, and High Point, North Carolina, sent 35 pounds of math books to the Belize Friends School in January. North Carolina Yearly Meeting will be hosting their annual Vacation Bible School in Jamaica, July 20-29. The purpose of the VBS is to form relationships with Jamaicans, provide spiritual education and equip Jamaican Friends for leadership. Richmond (Virginia) Friends Meeting held a workshop…

Spiritual State of the Meeting Queries for Baltimore Yearly Meeting

Posted on 24 April 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

How does your meeting ensure that ministry is nurtured, and that members and attenders feel valued and cared for? What challenges and troubles are you facing? In what ways is the meeting less than you would wish it to be? How is the presence of Spirit manifested in your lives individually and as a meeting community?

University Friends Discover When Helping Hurts

Posted on 24 April 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

University Friends Meeting in Wichita, Kansas, is undergoing a six-session class, led by Pastor Cliff Loesch, to discuss the book, When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts considers the Christian response to poverty and the Christian’s efforts to help anyone in need (at home or abroad). The authors point…

2012 Chain of Prayer, January 1-May 27

Posted on 2 January 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

The theme for the 2011-14 Triennium of Friends United Meeting is: A Great People to Be Gathered. Friends United Meeting spans the world and is the people of North America, Cuba, Jamaica, Belize, Ramallah, Kenya and Uganda. One way Friends United Meeting can be gathered from all corners of the globe is through prayer. In 1652, the founder of Quakerism, George Fox,…