Last Sunday as I sat between Wess and Emma at meeting, I had the sense we were a team, (along with the seven others of course). I had the feeling I was a part of something incredibal, that each member of the team is unique and needed and that we were in this together. It …
I remembered today something I told Ashley I was going to blog because it was so funny. Last week when a bunch of people from our church went to the yearly gathering of Friends World Conference on Consultation in Canby, Oregon, Ashley made this comment to me about our row of people from Freedom Friends …
I got to see Katrina and Ashley!!!! This is me bragging to the world. I just had a totally awesome weekend in Seattle. Not only am I immensely proud of myself for tackling the downtown streets while driving, I also pumped my own gas, helped Katrina find her way around, and found my own way …
So I’m at it again. I’m speaking tomorrow to a group of 40-50 junior highers and high schoolers from two churches. Talk about Daniel facing the lions. Subject? Romans 12, Community, more or less. I could also easily revamp and respeak my will of God talk, which I may do yet. It would fit for …
(For those of you who don’t know, I am an Editorial Board member for the Quaker Youth Book Project. This letter is from our Project Coordinator, Angelina, and is being distributed to Quakers around the world.) Dear Friends, We’re excited to announce that it is now possible to donate to the Quaker Youth Book Project …
I have an uncanny knack for visiting churches when there is food involved. I never plan it that way but it often happens. I believe the first time I visited Freedom Friends, it was potluck Sunday. The time I visited Multnomah? You guessed it, potluck Sunday. I’ve heard one meeting calls potlucks, “meetings for eating”. …
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 …
You’ve probably heard the idea that things come in threes. This afternoon, the third shoe dropped in the form of a phone call from my friend Stacey who asked me if I wanted to participate in a show at the Elsinore Theatre here in Salem. Truth be told, I have been looking forward to having …
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 …
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. …
