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One Heck of a Week…

This has been quite a week, let me tell you. I have felt like crawling underneath a table and staying there for much of it. In short, work has been VERY busy between board meetings and rule changes going into effect yesterday. I never knew before how much work it takes to run a government. […]

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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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North West Yearly Meeting

The next afternoon, I geared up for round two. North West Yearly Meeting, the other for our area, was just starting their Yearly Meeting at George Fox University in Newberg, the Evangelical Quaker Mecca. I thought it would be interesting going to the meetings back to back for comparison’s sake. I had arranged to attend

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QUIP Meeting

Hello Friends! I am writing you from Haw River State Park just north of Greensboro, North Carolina. I decided to put the day and a half of traveling behind me for now and to just enjoy my time here with these wonderful people!

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