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NEW! Ministry of the Month*

June 2012
Belize Friends School

Please support the Belize Friends School with your daily prayers:

1. Pray that God would continue to guide and direct the expansion and continuation of the Belize ministry.

2. Pray that the students will be motivated to learn and determined to work to improve their situation, often despite the lack of family support.

3. Pray for the socio-economic issues that Belizeans face.

4. Pray for health, strength, and wisdom for our teacher, Ms. Candi Young, and her family.

5. Pray that God would raise up partners to support the ministry of Friends in Belize.

6. Pray for the domestic and gang violence to subside and for our students that have experienced the violence.

7. Pray for health, strength, and wisdom for our administrators, Sam and Becky Barber, and their family.

Read more about Belize Friends School in the June 2012 issue of FOCUS (pdf).


*Each month through December 2012, we will focus on a different ministry of Friends United Meeting. This "Ministry of the Month" corresponds with the FUM wall calendar that is available for $7.50 from the Friends United Press Shopping Center.
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Weekly Devotional and Prayer

A meditation: “Gospel ministry is service whose goal is to encourage, support, push or invite people to seek and respond to the guidance, teaching and activity of that Light and Life at work in all, right now.” (Brian Drayton, On Living with a Concern for Gospel Ministry, xvii, .2006)

This idea of Gospel Ministry among Friends, the notion of living a listening life close to the Center, flies in the face of the kind of logic our cultures have instilled in us. Called to this service, actions are neither measured nor evaluated on results, but on faithfulness. Listening to that “still small voice” takes risk, takes patience, takes submission. It is a great mystery with a great solution. Following God’s call is a singular act of strength of will and, at the same time, an act of conscious surrender to the Divine. It is, in our beloved Society, both a deeply individual act and one profoundly based in community because, in our understanding, calls from God are tested and made authenticate in the community they spring from. It is striking out on a narrow path by yourself—seeking and finding, and being planted in a pasture—growing deep roots and blossoms in your meeting’s soil. —cdw

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