On 6–7 December, Friends United Meeting’s office in Kenya relocated to Kakamega from Kisumu. While this move was made because of a financial necessity to lower operational costs, it also provides strategic opportunities. For the past twenty-one years, the Reinsurance Plaza in Kisumu has been our administrative home. The office was originally established to serve our project partners and our member Yearly Meetings in Africa. The move to Kakamega brings us much closer to the communities we serve and support.
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Although Global Ministries Coordinator Karla Jay was traveling in partnership with FWCC as a translator, her visit fulfilled a long-standing request from Guatemala Holiness Yearly Meeting to begin a dialogue about the mutual benefits of becoming an FUM member body. For several years, FUM had attempted to make such a visit, but a series of obstacles—political instability leading to road blockages, and travel concerns—prevented it. In 2023, General Secretary Kelly Kellum was scheduled to travel to the country, but Guatemala’s political turmoil at that time led local leader Karen Gregorio to advise postponing the visit until conditions improved.
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On Thursday, November 13, Friends United Meeting offered an in-depth explanation of the budget for the current fiscal year in an explanatory Zoom session. If you missed the session, or encountered technical difficulties, you can view it with the online ink provided.
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As a barista, mornings now bid me rise at 4 a.m. to fill enough carafes with liquid motivation for the 6 a.m. rush. Before the sun peeks over earth I’ve heard, “Thanks, hon” from the construction foreman with a gravelly, Sam Elliot-like voice; said, “Have a great day,” to half the hospital’s nurses as they caffeinate before their rounds; and poured refills for the jogging club whose daily circuit ends at the espresso machine.
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Not being much of a television watcher, I confess I’ve never actually seen the show Survivor. I understand many people really enjoy it. I simply cannot get my head around why it is so appealing. As with so many other things, I’m probably just missing something.
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The characters in the parable present several classic dichotomies: greed and generosity, carelessness and faithfulness, anger and joy. Recently, my spirit is quickened by another contrasting component found in the story—scarcity and abundance.
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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.
