At its October 3, 2026, meeting, the Friends United Meeting General Board approved two significant governance and financial management documents: a new Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual and a new Delegation of Authority Policy. Together, these policies provide a clearer financial-control framework and represent an important step in strengthening stewardship, accountability, transparency, and organizational sustainability. The General Board is responsible for establishing organizational policies, approving the annual budget, and overseeing FUM’s business between Triennial Sessions.
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Presiding Clerk Sarah Lookabill describes the transition plan under which FUM is currently operating.
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"...In response to these challenges, we have been diligent to examine our policies and procedures for ways to improve our ability to responsibly manage donor funds. We are bringing our financial audits up to date and hope to be current by June, 2027. We have a new Financial Policy Handbook. We have contracted with Edge Accounting to provide CFO Services. We are exploring hiring Everence regarding our Advancement Planning. These challenging situations are not being ignored or swept under the rug. Our General Board, Executive Board, and staff are committed to making changes in our daily operations that increase accountability and reflect responsible stewardship of our resources..."
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On Friday night I went to dinner with two classmates from Earlham. Between quick intakes of breath taken to counter our fatally authentic Indian dishes, our discussion turned toward how women should respond to misogyny in the workplace.
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The lessons for this Sunday describe signs of God that appear in the midst of everyday life. Joseph was an example of faithfulness, even when the signs he perceived were unclear, even mysterious. When we have been “fed with the bread of tears,” scorned and ridiculed, we long to be restored by God.
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Several years ago, I was inspired by the one of ten in the Gospel account, so I started the spiritual practice of “returning.” On a sheet of paper, I counted my many blessings, identifying places that were transformative in my life and people who have influenced and encouraged me along the way. My list became quite long. Then, when possible, I returned to those places and people to simply say, “Thank you.” I have had opportunities to return to my childhood church in Burundi, teachers, family members, pastors, colleagues, high school, friends, the youth camp where I answered the call to ministry, and other places of blessings.
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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.
