This is the report I wrote to the three groups that gave me the grants that made it possible for me to go minister in Kenya: the Susan Bax Foundation, the International Outreach Granting Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and the Youth Opportunity Fund Granting Group of North Pacific Yearly Meeting. I thank God for […]
North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Willamette Quarterly Meeting
As many of you know from reading my blog, I was invited to be one of the speakers on a panel at Willamette Quarterly Meeting, a part of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, October 3rd-5th. It’s strange to have a dream for much of my life not knowing how I would reach it but holding to
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A Diplomat is Born
This last week I was asked by the Willamette Chapter of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, a Quaker group, to be on a panel at their Quarterly meeting discussing the future of Friends and to hold an interest group on the discussion. I am asked to go as a diplomat, at first from Multwood, a cross
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Quaker Worlds: Mind, Hands, and Heart
As I’ve already posted, the day after I attended North Pacific Yearly Meeting, I attended North West Yearly Meeting and these experiences got me thinking about all the times I’ve spent with other Quakers and what that has been like for me. North West Yearly Meeting was an entirely different experience from the previous day.
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North Pacific Yearly Meeting
The place was extremely familiar to me, the event I was going to was not. For weeks I had been talking with people and making connections before attending the North Pacific Yearly Meeting for Quakers. I was looking forward to the event. I had never attended either yearly meeting for my area but was excited
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