The Barbara Reynolds Memorial Archives at the Peace Resource Center contain the most extensive collection in the United States of interdisciplinary materials related to nuclear war. Each year, the PRC BRMA receives between 400–450 visitors, including researchers, students, and members of the public. The archive holds documents; creative responses to the atomic bombings, such as poetry, plays, and artistic works; historic poster collections; historic photos; slides; scrapbooks; photo albums; 16-mm films; reel-to-reel audio; cassette tapes; and other artifacts. The PRC and BRMA marked their 50th anniversary in commemoration in August and September. They are housed at Wilmington College, a Quaker college in southwestern Ohio, affiliated with Wilmington Yearly Meeting.
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Girls in Mt. Elgon miss up to five days of school each month due to the lack of sanitary pads. This has led many girls to drop out of school, and enter early marriages, which shifts the financial responsibility of providing for them from their mother to their spouse. Other girls who cannot support themselves are exposed to sexual exploitation. For these reasons, Friends United Meeting Africa Ministries Programme Officer Getry Agizah, funded by a generous donation from USFW, rolled out a training program in Kenya, at the Chebyuk Peace Centre in the Mt. Elgon area, to teach women how to sew reusable menstrual pads.
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In Samburu, Kenya, pastor Christopher Leduma, from Samburu Friends Mission, facilitated a one-day transformative dialogue called by Samburu community members who are tired of bandits from rival Samburu communities attacking familes and stealing their animals.
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Earlham School of Religion student Francoise Dutil writes about finding Quakerism, and then seminary, through the leading of the Spirit. Part 1.
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Friends from Kenya, Uganda and other places travelled to Tanzania to support Friends Church Tanzania at their Annual Conference in late October.
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In a crisis, in the face of adversity, in a pivotal moment of action, how do you respond? What do you see yourself doing when the stakes are at their highest? It is difficult to know whether our answers to those questions reflect the reality of our actual responses, because when conceptualizing our responses we aren’t in the actual moments and places of crisis or confrontation. Nonetheless, we can attempt to put our hearts, minds, souls, and strength into a place where loving God and our neighbor is our intention.
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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.
