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Field Staff Reports: Ann Riggs – February, 2013

Posted on 11 February 2013 by micah | 4 Comments

As we approach the general Kenyan elections on 4 March 2013, the eight presidential candidates have presented goals for their hoped-for presidencies. Economic matters are high on their lists. One candidate has pledged to create a million new jobs a year. In a country with only 40 million people, a million new jobs each year would make a huge difference…

Field Staff Reports: Sam Barber – February, 2013

Posted on 11 February 2013 by micah | 1 Comments

January is always a time of transition at Belize Friends School. Now that the second term has begun, our focus is geared toward the preparation of the Primary School Examination (PSE). We also accepted three more students, bringing our total to ten. On a personal side, our house was broken into again on January 14. This time some of Felicia…

Field Staff Reports: Joyce Ajlouny – February, 2013

Posted on 11 February 2013 by micah | 2 Comments

As the second semester began at Ramallah Friends School (RFS), the staff committee initiated a one-hour strike each morning to emphasize their desire for better benefits and pay. Negotiations are continuing and it is my hope the staff will agree to a five-year offer from the Board of Trustees. Meanwhile as discussions continue, the staff agreed to freeze the strike…

FUM Ministry Of the Month – February, 2013

Posted on 1 February 2013 by micah | 0 Comments

Ramallah Friends School Upper School Campus — “You can take away our land and our freedom, but you cannot take away our education” is a motto threading itself throughout the history of the Friends Boys School (Upper School) which began in rented spaces in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1901. Over a century later the educational ministry despite many wars and atrocities…

Field Staff Reports: Ann Riggs – January 2013

Posted on 23 January 2013 by micah | 5 Comments

My report entails three recent blessings. Before I left Kenya for Christmas in US, the new chair of the FTC board’s Development and Fund-raising committee went with a student, a faculty member and a driver to visit our sugarcane plantation. They took a picture of the cane, which appears on the back of the FTC Christmas card. When they returned…

Field Staff Reports: Eden Grace – January 2013

Posted on 23 January 2013 by micah | 4 Comments

December is always a busy month, but this past December was even more so! Colin Saxton, FUM’s General Secretary, visited Kenya in late November and was able to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with my family and me. During that visit, he asked me to take on a special short-term assignment helping Friends Theological College reorganize its accounting system. With the dawn…

Field Staff Reports: Joyce Ajlouny – January 2013

Posted on 11 January 2013 by micah | 0 Comments

Celebrations and performances were the main focus for the entire Lower School in the month of December. All the hard work that went into the preparation for the performances was evidenced in the wonderful choral program presented. Tala, the FGS librarian, recorded all performances and placed them on YouTube. Parents were delighted to be able to watch and share these…

FUM Field Staff Updates – January/February 2013

Posted on 9 January 2013 by micah | 1 Comments

A Small Loaf Feeding a Multitude By Eden Grace, FUM Africa Ministries Field Staff I wanted to share a story of one woman who visited Nakiria Primary School in Turkana and heard stories of the hardship Turkanan women and girls have as they fetch and carry water to their village. She remembered her own childhood in rural Kansas, where her…

Field Staff Reports: Sam & Becky Barber – January 2013

Posted on 8 January 2013 by micah | 2 Comments

Friends, In my last report, I shared the difficult behavior problems of a pair of brothers who attend our school. Time and a talk with their father have allowed the situation to improve dramatically. On a sadder note, all of our students attended a funeral for the father of another of our students. His father had died from complications of…

Field Staff Reports: Lon Fendall – December 2012

Posted on 3 December 2012 by micah

A CATALYST FOR ACADEMIC IMPROVEMENT Those who hear about the FUM Field Staff and see my title, “Academic Consultant” may wonder what such a person does at Friends Theological College. Sometimes I wonder what I do as well, but it’s a rewarding niche in one of FUM’s unique and important ministries, Friends Theological College. In a nutshell, the title means…