2012 Quaker Life :: Friends United Meeting

Christian Friends Conference – Western Region, Palo Alto, California

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By Bruce Folsom The quarterly meeting of the Christian Friends Conference-Western Region was held on Saturday June 2, 2012, at Palo Alto Friends Meeting, with Friends present from Quaker congregations in Sacramento, Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Santa Cruz. After an opening period of worship, an excerpt was read from George Fox’s Pastoral Sermon VI: “Christ is exercising his…

Lobby to Cut the Pentagon Budget

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By Tom Ewell – FCNL Field Committee Clerk In the coming months, until the end of 2012, we have an unprecedented opportunity to reduce the Pentagon budget. Rarely has the ever-increasing military budget been challenged. But now, during the “lame duck” session between election day in November and the beginning of the new Congress in January 2013, Congress will be…

Quaker Heritage Center Hosts Refugee Justice Program Director

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By Ruth M. Brindle Dobyns – Quaker Heritage Center Curator On Wednesday, May 30, 25 members of the Wilmington community heard about the work of the Refugee Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC). Migwe Kimemia, Director of the Program in the Dayton office, shared AFSC’s mission to address the root problems of conflict. In the Dayton program,…

The 2012 QUIP Report: Reaching Out

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By Sherryll-Jeanne Harris As always, there was a spine tingling moment. Charles Martin, co-clerk of Quakers United in Publishing (QUIP), pulled an old book from a Pendle Hill bookshelf. To his utter amazement, buried between its pages, was a letter written by his great-great grandfather, William Burgess, and published in the Friends’ Intelligencer, November 30, 1900. The following excerpt that…

Finding the Words

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By Brian Young I am a Friend called to pastoral ministry who values the older understanding of vocal ministry that prevailed before the pastoral system, and which many Quakers still uphold. I became part of a Friends church as a young adult, and that programmed meeting was the community in which my faith in Christ Jesus was formed; but my…

What is Prayer?

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By David Finke I was blessed to be a part of an intergenerational program led by Ken and Katharine Jacobsen during Blue River Quarterly Meeting, of Illinois Yearly Meeting held near Springfield, Illinois, in May. The integration of adult and children’s program provided in this meeting seemed seamless to me: Never before have I felt the unity and harmony of…

QuakerSpring: A Prayerful Community

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By Micah Bales – FUM Interim Communications and Web Specialist God continues to surprise me. All the Holy Spirit has to do is blow through, and I am back to square one; the sand castles that I have built are swept away by the tide, and I am left without fortifications before God. I suppose it could be frustrating to…

Faithful Prayers

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By Pat Shrock There are times God reminds me that I take for granted the blessings and advantages my culture provides me. Recently, as the presiding clerk of United Society of Friends Women International (USFWI), I had the privilege of being involved in a life changing event — a prayer meeting. Now, when I speak of a prayer meeting, I…

Scripture for Living: Prayer

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By Meshack Musindi I have found a wonderful and powerful prayer. My faith’s experience has found that when Quakers gather in meetings, committees, and when solving issues, their prayer will always be, “May thy will be done.” “May thy will be done.” What a wonderful, powerful prayer! It is a wonder working prayer that has been a big challenge to…

The Practice of Prayer

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By Pat Byers Several years ago a friend of mine spent some time with author and speaker Richard Foster. In a car ride to the airport, my friend asked Foster why his own prayer life was not near as full, as rich, or as exciting as the prayer life Foster described in his book on prayer. Foster’s response was something…