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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This poem is one I’ve struggled to write for three years or so. The experience itself is a struggle of longer duration. When I found myself on the Jesus Way again after being a non-believer for forty years or so, I also saw that Christ asked more of me than acceptance of miracles and belief. I feel much ambivalence about what Symeon’s revelation means for me. —Franchot Ballinger
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I live for those fleeting and rare moments of commUNION, when everything is joined, including me. They are so alive, so vibrant, so red and burning. I never know when to expect them. They just come as a gift, which I graciously accept.
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Gage, one of the Philadelphia Quaker Voluntary Service Fellows from the 2015-16 year, has a special gift. He sees the world with child-like wonder. I watched all year as a sensibility fostered in the majestic beauty of the Pacific Northwest struggled to find the glory of God in the cracks of Philly’s decayed, post-industrial neighborhoods.
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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.
