Cuba in 2026 is facing one of the most severe crises in its recent history. Life now is marked by 20–24 hour blackouts, extreme shortages of food and medicine, soaring inflation, and a dramatic collapse of fuel supplies. Only one fuel tanker arrived between December 2025 and April 2026, leaving entire provinces without electricity for days at a time. As a result, families struggle to cook, refrigerate food, pump water, or access medical care. Friends on the island report searching endlessly for basic items like rice, oil, soap, and toothpaste, and facing medical conditions that become fatal simply because medicine, transportation, and electricity are unavailable.
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Across Friends United Meeting, we are seeing what it means to encourage one another in love, not only in word, but through faithful action. The generosity of Friends continues to sustain and strengthen the shared work we carry together.
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As Friends, we are not always “special day” celebratory. We celebrate God at work in this world, in our hearts, and in our lives. Pentecost is one of those Biblical moments Friends may celebrate regularly—God’s presence manifest in the lives of the gathered community. Whether or not our celebration is overt, we highlight, uplift and encourage the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We acknowledge the presence of the Divine in one another.
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Earlham School of Religion student Francoise Dutil writes about finding Quakerism, and then seminary, through the leading of the Spirit. Part 1.
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Friends from Kenya, Uganda and other places travelled to Tanzania to support Friends Church Tanzania at their Annual Conference in late October.
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In a crisis, in the face of adversity, in a pivotal moment of action, how do you respond? What do you see yourself doing when the stakes are at their highest? It is difficult to know whether our answers to those questions reflect the reality of our actual responses, because when conceptualizing our responses we aren’t in the actual moments and places of crisis or confrontation. Nonetheless, we can attempt to put our hearts, minds, souls, and strength into a place where loving God and our neighbor is our intention.
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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.
