On January 1, 2022, Friends United Meeting is grateful to welcome our newest staff member to serve as our Programme Coordinator in our Africa Ministries Office. Of course, Getry Agizah is not new to FUM. For many years she served as the coordinator for the Friends Church Peace Team. Following Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007, Getry participated in many types of peace work, including Alternatives to Violence, trauma healing and reconciliation, mediation, civic education, and the Nonviolence Movement for Social Change. She is a skilled communicator, mobilizer, and coordinator.
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The Earlham School of Religion will establish a new hub to strengthen congregational leadership with support from a one million dollar grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through Lilly’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative. Friends United Meeting, Everence, Western Yearly Meeting, and Bethany Theological Seminary are among the organizations working with ESR on this major initiative.
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After several decades of not attending church services, a good friend of mine has decided she wants to return to “church.” She grew up attending a mainline church in a small Midwest town, and she now lives in a major city in the Midwest. Literally, she has hundreds, perhaps a few thousand, choices of churches to attend.
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Having been a photojournalist for most of my life, I usually make pictures to tell a story to others. But over the last couple of years, I’ve realized that some pictures aren’t necessarily meant to tell a story at all—I make them as a spiritual or emotional response to the world around me. The pictures might tell a story to another person, or they may never make it out of my camera. I make them because, before my eyes, something in me recognized and responded to God’s presence.
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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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