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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In this season, Friends United Meeting is focused on one consistent message, Encourage One Another in Love. That message is being threaded into the fabric of FUM’s work with intentionality.
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This year’s Stoking the Fire theme, “Rediscovering the Basics”, is about reclaiming the fundamentals of our spiritual fire—getting us to a place where we can empower the core strength of our faith. We will be exploring questions about the space between ideal and real. What do we consider fire? Does everyone’s fire need to be identical? How do we show up for ourselves and one another when all we have is a small spark? What does it look like to stoke the flames of spiritual fire when it is raining and damp and the kindling is wet?
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On February 27, FUM Global Ministries Coordinator Karla Jay, North American Ministries Coordinator Michael Sherman, and Communications Director Dan Kasztelan sent a shipment of emergency supplies to Cuba Yearly Meeting through a shipping agency in Louisville, Kentucky. Friends contributed generously to this effort by using an Amazon shopping list to purchase supplies requested by Cuba Yearly Meeting. These items were delivered to the FUM office, then packaged up and driven to the agency in Louisville, to travel on to Cuba.
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