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Job Description: Global Ministries Director

Job Title: Global Ministries Director Department: Global Ministries Employment Status: Full time/non-exempt Qualifications: – Extensive leadership experience in Christian ministry/non-profit organization, preferably in a global context – Ability to translate vision into concrete and sustainable programs and partnerships in multiple locations – Strong interpersonal and organizational skills – Effective staff management ability, including oversight of staff in remote locations -…

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FUM Seeks Global Ministries Director

Position Announcement: Friends United Meeting (FUM) is seeking qualified applicants for the Global Ministries Director position. This full-time, Richmond, Indiana-based staff person will receive a competitive salary, including benefits. A successful applicant for this position will possess: – A growing personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ – A commitment to and be actively involved in the work and witness…

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FUM News in Brief

FUM General Board Hopes for 40 Days During roll call at the October meeting of the Friends United Meeting General Board, representatives were asked to state what hopes they had for the 40 Days of Prayer. Here are some of their responses. Do any of them resonate with your hopes? • I hope we find how to be the action…

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Job Opening: Shipping and Maintenance Supervisor

Job Announcement Friends United Meeting (FUM) is seeking qualified applicants for our Shipping and Maintenance Supervisor position. This part-time (16 hours per week), Richmond (IN) based staff person will receive a competitive wage along with retirement benefits. A successful applicant for this position will: • Possess a strong and growing Christian faith • Be committed to the work, witness and…

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Field Staff Reports: Eden Grace

Updates from Eden Grace – September 2012 September is always a big month in the financial management aspect of my job. As FUM’s fiscal year closes on 30 June, and the months of July and August finds me out of the country, September becomes the month for chasing loose ends, entering all those pesky year-end journal entries, tracking down missing…

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Staff Reports: John Muhanji

Updates from John Muhanji What made you laugh? The month of July was one of the most fulfilling. We visited the highest part of Mt. Elgon called Kaboywa where we have a Quaker church and a school close to the forest with people who have never been visited. When the children in class saw our vehicle crossing the school field…

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Report from Kenya – Friends Church Peace Teams

A letter from Getry Agizah – September 26, 2012 My life has been full of challenges as I made my way to create awareness of peace in Kenya and other African countries. I remember going for an Alternative to Violence workshop in the year 2005, in Lugari. Most of the participants felt this training was irrelevant because they felt at…

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News from Joyce Ajlouny

It’s been a month full of joys as the new school year started.  We were blessed with twelve new American teachers, three of which are of Palestinian origin. Their orientation program included dinner at the house of our preschool head, Duha, as well as a picnic and a visit to the Ramallah Meeting House. They will be teaching English, Theory of…

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FUM News in Brief

Janet Smith from Holly Springs, North Carolina, traveled with 12 others from across North Carolina Yearly Meet­ing in July to work in 12 different Jamaican meetings for Bible School! She worked with Friendstown Meeting, St. Mary District Jamaica, West Indies. Janet had the op­portunity to stay an extra day to discuss the possibility of planting the seeds for a new…

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Hominy Friends Hold Vacation Bible School

Hominy Friends Meeting held Vacation Bible School June 11-13, from 2-6 pm at the meetinghouse in Hominy, Oklahoma. The sessions were attended by around 10 children. Michael Jay, Ministry Intern from Earlham School of Religion, Rich­mond, Indiana, and Beth Green-Nagle organized a program combining the study of several biblical stories including: King David’s boyhood as a shepherd, the New Testament…

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