British Friends and Palestine announcment; new directors at Quaker Voluntary Service and Belize Friends Ministries.
Tag Archives | Quaker Voluntary Service
Keeping It Real, Quaker Style
Among Friends: our introduction to the September issue.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, September 2018
Among Friends: Meaningful Values
Our introduction to the May issue, âWhat Are Quaker Values Anyway?â
Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
The Value of Loss
Is it enough to simply don a cloak of wholesome ideals?
Emily Weyrauch is currently serving as a Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow in Atlanta, Ga., at Georgia WAND, an environmental justice nonprofit. She attends Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. Emily enjoys cooking with her housemates, making art, telling stories, and spending time outside with birds and plants.
Posted in: Features, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Letting Our Light Shine
A howâto on outreach online.
Mackenzie Morgan is a software engineer and a member of Adelphi (Md.) Meeting. She is currently serving as clerk of the meetingâs Communications Subcommittee, and is a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Advancement and Outreach Committee.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Social Media
Spiritual Nurture in a Fixâit Culture
Gardening helped a disillusioned seminarian open to the deepness of questions without answers.
Sarah Klatt-Dickerson is the Portland coordinator for Quaker Voluntary Service. Sheâs also an artist and poet, a growing listener, and amateur gardener. As a part of her work with QVS, she gets to spend time with Liberal and Evangelical Friends in the Pacific Northwest.
Posted in: Features, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training
Disability and Community in LâArche Atlanta
A gift of respect from those weâre ostensibly serving.
Adrian Nelson is currently living, working, and playing in Atlanta, Ga., with Quaker Voluntary Service and LâArche Atlanta. Ze worships with Atlanta Meeting and is a member of Northside Meeting in Chicago, Ill. Ze also delivers vegan baked goods and organizes for the network Showing Up for Racial Justice.
Posted in: Disability and Inclusion, FeaturesQ&A: Christina Repoley, Founding Executive Director of Quaker Voluntary Service
Service work with young adult Friends.
Christina Repoley is a member of the Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. She has served on staff in the Peace Building Program of American Friends Service Committee, Southeastern Regional office and as the coordinator of the Mexico Summer Project, one of AFSCâs last remaining workcamps for young adults. She served on Friends General Conferenceâs Youth Ministries Committee for six years, and recently served on FGCâs Stoking the Spiritual Fire of Quakerism Capital Campaign Steering Committee. Christina was a Woodruff Fellow at Emory Universityâs Candler School of Theology where she received a Master of Divinity in 2011. Following seminary, Christina served as Program Coordinator for the Faith and Service Program of the Cousins Family Foundation, where she worked with a national network of faith-based voluntary service programs and also with the Fund for Theological Educationâs Volunteers Exploring Vocation program.
Posted in: December 2012: Hospitality
August 2019: QuakerSpeak at Five
Features
Stripping Down Quakerism for the Internet by Max L. Carter
Meeting for Viewing: How QuakerSpeak Deepens Our Spirituality by Krista Barnard
Muslim? Quaker? Speak! by Naveed Moeed
Poetry
Your Gift by Mary Timberlake
At That Time by James Littwin
Departments
Among Friends, Forum, Reflection, News, Books, Milestones, Classifieds, Meeting Listings
Facebook
Flickr
iTunes Podcast
Podcast
RSS Feed
Twitter
Youtube