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Field Staff Reports: Eden Grace – December 2012

Posted on 3 December 2012 by micah

Dear Friends, Every evening, just as the sun is setting, more than 100 boys and girls file into the classrooms at Loltulelei Friends Primary School for “Shepherd School” in Samburu, Kenya. They have just finished a full day’s hard work, tending the family’s herds and working in the home and garden, and now they come to school. The will spend…

Field Staff Reports: Joyce Ajlouny – December 2012

Posted on 3 December 2012 by micah

Dear Friends, Not too long ago, a graduate of Ramallah Friends School who had not visited us in sometime showed up at my office and shared the following. As he spoke I realized he was on behalf of all of graduates who now live around the globe, each meaningfully contributing to his and her community in more ways than one….

Field Staff Reports: Sam & Becky Barber – December 2012

Posted on 3 December 2012 by micah

Dear Friends, As I look over the last year, I have seen God work many ways through our ministry here in Belize. – We have seen the formation of a school board which helps guide us in the operation of Belize Friends School. This board is made up of Belizean and FUM representatives as well as staff members of the…

Field Staff Reports: Ann Riggs – December 2012

Posted on 3 December 2012 by micah

Dear Friends, Make a difference? Change the world? Build the Peaceable Kingdom? Think globally and act globally by shaping the future of Friends? Train African servant leaders who will proclaim the Good News in tiny traditional villages, in big city churches, in refugee camps, and in settled monthly meetings? Empower young people to share the love of God in places…

FUM Field Staff Updates

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

Please continue to pray for all our field staff during this holiday season as they are separated from their loved ones while serving Friends in their work and ministries with Friends United Meeting. News from Joyce Ajlouny (Ramallah Friends School) It has been a month full of joys as the new school year began. We were blessed with 12 new…

Field Staff Reports: Sam & Becky Barber

Posted on 17 October 2012 by micah | 2 Comments

Barbers Ministry Update This summer we shared that all of our students but two are going on to secondary education. Now that number is down to one. I feel we as a Friends institution are a success here in Belize but I also believe that there are greater things that need to be done. We finally were able to see…

Field Staff Reports: Eden Grace

Posted on 9 October 2012 by micah | 7 Comments

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…

News from Joyce Ajlouny

Posted on 9 October 2012 by micah | 1 Comments

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…

FUM Field Staff Updates

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

Sam and Becky Barber, Eden Grace and Ann Riggs were in North America this summer. We hope you had the time to visit with them and enjoy stories of their exciting ministires. Please continue to pray for all our field staff as they engage in equipping and energizing Friends all over the world. News from Sam and Becky Barber (Belize…

May 2012 FUM Ministry of the Month — Africa Ministries Office

Posted on 7 May 2012 by terrijohns | 0 Comments

In 2004, Eden Grace, her husband, James, and their two boys, Isaiah and Jesse, arrived in Kenya to join with John Muhanji, a Kenyan Friend, in establishing the Africa Ministries Office of Friends United Meeting. Later Judith Ngoya was hired to make up this staff of three. Since the opening of the office in 2005, there has been a great…