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Online shopping for books, curriculum and more Friends United Press is a Quaker publishing house with a list that includes Quaker history, biography, theology, spirituality, and inspirational titles. Founded in 1969, the Press is the publishing arm of Friends United Meeting and has over 80 titles in print. Visit the Friends United Press Shopping Center — an online source for books, curriculum, Quaker art prints, and FUM resources. Also includes writer's guidelines, bookseller information, and permissions requirements.
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NEW! Ministry of the Month* May 2012
Since the opening of the Africa Ministries Office in Kisumu, Kenya, in 2005, there has been a great hunger in East Africa for training, discipleship, accountability, capacity building, and relevant holistic mission. AMO staff members (pictured, left to right) Judith Ngoya, John Muhanji, and Eden Grace have faithfully been addressing these issues, as well as attending and offering insight at the board meetings of Lugulu and Kaimosi hospitals, Samburu and Turkana missions, and Lindi Friends School. The AMO staff are also responsible for: the financial accountability of these project partners; coordinating FUM’s 17 member yearly meetings in East Africa; assisting another project partner—Friends Church Peace Team—in implementing the new peace curriculum in the local secondary schools; ensuring the safety and care of the many travelers who come to visit each year; getting building and well projects approved, funded, and turned over to the responsible parties, etc. These three staff members obviously have a lot on their plates. Thank you for supporting them with your prayers and donations this month! Read more about the AMO and Friends Church Peace Team in the May 2012 issue of FOCUS (pdf).
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Weekly Devotional and Prayer
A meditation: “The Quaker ideal is to make every meal at every
table a Lord's Supper. …The reality lies, not in the nature of
the material substance, but in the way it stirs the heart of every
partaker. The Quakers, and all Christians, are called upon to
remember Christ every time bread is broken. Early Christians gathered together for “agape feasts,” communal meals that included the whole community—folks coming together to share food as equals without attention to financial or social status, without consideration to gender or rank. Eating together led to a deeper understanding, a faith community that was diverse and often at odds. It led to deeper communal prayer. It brought a real and palatable expression of the kingdom—the experience—of God. In my small rural meeting we’ve renewed the practice of gathering once a month or so at each other’s homes on a Friday evening to share a meal with conversation and camaraderie. No program, no agenda—the goal is simply being together. Some of us bring a fancy, others a customary dish. Some of us bring what is expected others try to surprise and delight. Some stick with the tried and true, others experiment. It’s interesting and it’s fun and its community at its best. When I was traveling among Friends with the World Committee I heard it referred to as a “carry in.” Here in Vermont we call it “potluck,” and that term seems to be becoming more wide spread. When I’m talking to my Mom, though, I call it a “covered dish” because to her potluck is the miscellaneous dishes—left over’s, sandwiches, soup—you put together for unexpected company (I can still hear her saying to my aunts “Oh, why don’t you stay for supper? It’ll just be potluck.”) Good names, all. Eating together, coming to know each other softens our conflicts, brings us into a stronger community, whatever we call it. In the sharing, in the eating, in the cleaning-up, God is present. Halleluiah. —cdw
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