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Learning from Salvadoran Friends
After the 2006 FWCC Section of the Americas meeting in Guatemala, we joined a small group of other U.S. Friends…
Greg Woods
A Snapshot of Friends in the Americas
Are Friends growing or shrinking? The answer, of course, is, "It all depends"—on where, over what time, and by how…
Margaret Fraser
Sharing about Personal Faith
My first FWCC experience was the 1999 Section of the Americas Annual Meeting in Whittier, California. The theological and cultural…
Cathy Habschmidt
The Africa Section of FWCC in 2007
Take 125 people from seven countries and put them together in Kampala, Uganda, and you’ve got the FWCC Africa Section…
Nancy Irving
The Meaning of Disagreements
My first FWCC event was a dinner somewhere near Boston during the 1987 50th Anniversary Campaign. I don’t recall what…
Elizabeth Cazden
A View of FWCC from the Southern Tip of Africa
I have tried hard to share the joy of FWCC happenings with my monthly and yearly meetings, but neither spoken…
Bridget Nomonde Scoble
Quilts in Burundi: The Unending God Story Goes On
For many years my personal ministry has been to make quilts for people in hard places—divorce, terminal illness, or depression.…
Carolann Palmer
The Asia West Pacific Section of FWCC
The baby or the giant? Of the four Sections, Asian West Pacific Section has the smallest number of Quakers, and…
Valerie Joy
Convergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’
Have you ever sensed that the earliest Quakers had a fire that seems to be missing now? What do we…
Robin Mohr and C. Wess Daniels
Whither the Wider Quaker Fellowship?
When I took a position as Program Secretary of the Wider Quaker Fellowship (WQF) in 1998, I was only somewhat…
Vicki Hain Poorman
On Good Soil and Increasing Yield
He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: Listen! A sower…
Roland Kreager
Friends’ Witness on Population and Overconsumption
Many Friends today are expanding their witness for equality and justice by focusing on rapid population growth and over-consumption as…
Louis Cox and Ruth Swennerfelt
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