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“Friends, meet together and know one another in that which is eternal, which was before the world was.” —George Fox, 1657 (Britain Yearly Meeting Faith & Practice) In the mid-1990s, during our Mennonite Central Committee assignment in Uganda, Pam and I got invited to a Thanksgiving dinner at the home of an American couple who worked for another Christian agency in Kampala. We found a dozen people there waiting to dig into a meal that looked amazingly like Thanksgiving feasts we had enjoyed at Grandma’s house back home. The hosts had somehow come up with a turkey in a country where we’d never seen one before. We were able to imagine for a couple of hours that we were in the U.S. celebrating with family. Before praying to start the feasting, the host did the “American thing” and asked everyone around the table to name a blessing for which they were thankful. The guests did the “American thing” by telling mostly about new vehicles or computer equipment they had obtained with great difficulty, care packages recently received from family, or other material things which made their lives a bit easier in a place still mostly foreign to them. There was no football on TV, but the afternoon was a nice “taste of home.”
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A large group of USFW and Quaker Men representatives from North Yearly Meeting recently made a visit to Samburu Friends Mission that marked an important milestone for the Samburu community and Friends alike, as it fostered unity, understanding, and collaboration. Samburu Friends Mission is a ministry under North Yearly Meeting but it is very far away and often feels isolated. The Samburu people deeply appreciated the time, care, and fellowship extended to them during this visit. This connection has initiated a promising journey toward a stronger bond in evangelism, service, and spiritual growth. Together, we are now even more determined to support and strengthen one another in our faith and mission work. With gratitude and anticipation for our continued journey together, Felix Lekuyie Samburu Friends Mission Director
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In East Africa, the three large Quaker “umbrella” organizations—Friends Church Kenya,, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Africa Section), and Friends United Meeting—came together at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic to make a united response. They served together to alleviate suffering, and along the way discovered the enormous spiritual blessings of unity. Richard Sitati, FUM's Vice Presiding Clerk, reflects on the experience.
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Turkana Friends Mission, which was founded fifty years ago this year, continues to plant new churches. There are now thirty churches within Turkana, five of which have grown up in the past three years. Many of these Meetings arise from new or existing relationships—through family members and friends, or through an introduction to Friends by way of Friends' schools, health care, water ministry, or relief work.
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Throughout our history, the people known as Friends (or Quakers) keep rediscovering an essential and enduring truth: There is one who speaks to our most basic needs and most significant hopes—Christ Jesus the Lord. Both individually and communally, we are learning to know and follow the Voice that guides us in the way we should go. Together, we seek to understand and obey that truth which sets us free. As a people, we share in the experience of that powerful life which makes all things new. Maybe you are searching for an authentic and transforming faith and community to call home—if so, come in and join us as we seek to know and follow Christ.
Friends United Meeting commits itself to energize and equip Friends through the power of the Holy Spirit to gather people into fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved, and obeyed as Teacher and Lord.
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