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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The Eleventh Friends Church Africa Pastors Conference will be hosted this year in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The conference runs from December 26–30 with this theme: “Empowerment for Kingdom Impact: Equipping Servant Leaders for Transformation Ministry.”
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These are challenging days, and yet, in the midst of this strain, we continue to witness profound expressions of love, faith, and solidarity from across our community.We are especially blessed by Friends who have reached out with notes of care, by those who have stopped by our office simply to tell us they are praying for us, and by the many who remind us that we are not walking this season alone. Their kindness strengthens our spirits and renews our hope.
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Friends United Meeting Global Ministries Coordinator Karla Jay joined the Central American tour with the Friends World Committee for Consultation as an interpreter for their annual Nominations and Representative Engagement Retreat in El Salvador, held November 6–9, 2025. The tour continued from November 11–16, beginning with visits to Friends churches in El Salvador and then crossing into Guatemala to visit Friends in Guatemala Holiness Yearly Meeting, who have expressed interest in joining Friends United Meeting.
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