The Great Plains Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends annual sessions where held in Hominy, Oklahoma, in the Osage Nation, on May 29–31, 2025. The theme for the sessions was “Building the Future as Way Opens,” based on Isaiah 43:19: Look, I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth. do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Karla Jay, Global Ministries Coordinator for Friends United Meeting, was the keynote speaker, and Michael Jay, pastor of Raysville Friends Meeting in the New Association of Friends, shared the bible study. Both speakers explored the theme of the Isaiah passage.
Read MoreSome of our readers already know that Friends United Meeting–Belize consists of a school, Belize Friends School, a church, Belize Friends Church, and a community center, Belize Friends Center. Do you know the people who do the work there? Do you know how the school intends to make the biggest impact on the lives of their students? Do you know how many people come to church on a Sunday morning? Do you know the ways in which the Friends Center reaches out into its community?
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In recent weeks, I have been sharing reflections about the recent FUM-sponsored pastoral care trip to Ramallah Friends School. During our week there, we had the privilege of visiting classrooms, engaging with teachers, and connecting with the students. Amidst the ongoing conflict and its inherent stresses, our students are a ray of light. Their brilliance and kindness, in my opinion, truly represent the world's hope for a more peaceful and stable Middle East and beyond. It's inspiring to note that nearly all Ramallah Friends School graduates—an impressive 98%—go on to pursue higher education, both within Palestine and at universities across Europe, Canada, and the United States.
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During my quiet time this morning I was thinking about what God is trying to teach me – teach us – during this season. It is my intent to grow from this, and to learn. At the same time I was thinking about how I can help the members of Wilmington Yearly Meeting, particularly this coming week as we should be preparing to celebrate the Resurrection.
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Alex Kern is the Director of Northeastern University’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service, and a Friend from New England Yearly Meeting. This week he shared these thoughts—about caring for oneself and others during times of trouble—with the interfaith campus ministry community he serves.
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With no employees allowed on the Ramallah Friends School campus for a month, no one will be there to do the heavy landscaping work until at least April, after I leave. I won't be able to participate in the installation of the Circle. My disappointment is pretty intense—so much design happens when you actually install. Besides the landscaping, the connections I have been developing with people here are not going to have this last month to deepen.
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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.
