FUM’s Friends Church Peace Team held an Alternatives to Violence Project workshop on Mt. Elgon on December 20–21, 2024. FCPT has been using AVP in Kenya for nearly fifteen years. An AVP basic workshop takes two to three full days, and explores the five pillars of AVP: affirmation, communication, co-operation, community building, and transforming power. AVP workshops build on everyday experiences and try to help us move away from violent or abusive behavior by developing other ways of dealing with conflicts.
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Advent and Christmas books are on sale in the FUM online bookstore.
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On Friday, November 21, Friends Theological College celebrated the hard work and dedicated scholarship of the school’s eighty-third graduating class. The class included 149 students from across various programs from the main campus and satellite campuses.
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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies,for the love which from our birth, over and around us lies;Lord of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise.
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There was a dark time – there are always dark times – when I felt my light almost sucked out. I was in a hard group and I didn’t know why. Big personalities, mental-health issues and sketchy facilitation. “God,” I asked repeatedly, where are you?” Only when I began to paint could I see where God had been: holding ALL of us, together.
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Recently, the Africa Ministries Office sold the truck that Eden Grace used for transport when she was in Kenya as Field Staff. In fond commemoration of the truck—and by popular demand—we are running again Eden’s reflection on one of the lessons the truck taught her.—ed.
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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.
