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Updates & Announcements – February 2010

Read the announcements and ministry updates, which include, three new church plants, a new Young Adult leadership team, Youth Challenge deadlines, intern possibilities at Greenplow Coffeehouse, and registration information for our men's retreats. NOTE: "Unsubscribing" from these updates takes everyone in this group off the list. So please do not. If you want to not receive these, please contact Bruce at info@nwfriends.org for information.

Woolman Peacemaking Forum

John M. Perkins, president and founder of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development and one of the leading evangelical voices to come out of the American civil rights movement, will speak at George Fox University’s annual Woolman Peacemaking Forum Feb. 10-11. The forum’s theme is “Are We Achieving Racial Justice and Reconciliation?” All [...]

Haiti Work by AFSC and EFC-ER

Food, water and medical supplies are beginning to flow into Haiti, but the needs are immense. Friends' organizations are not generally at the forefront of disaster relief efforts such as pulling people out of buildings or giving immediate medical assistance, but they have good relationships with those that do. The American Friends Service Committee and Evangelical Friends Church Eastern Region have been using their specialist knowledge of agencies that could put funds to immediate good use. Read further for the details of what these groups are doing, and how to track their ongoing efforts.

Update on Haiti Relief

Dear Friends, I want to invite you, as surely you have already been, to pray for those in Haiti who have suffered such terrible loss in the earthquake. Already among the poorest of the poor, margins for survival are very slim in that country. In addition, many of the relief agencies there are devastated, and [...]

Haiti Emergency Relief

Perhaps you've heard of the 7.0 earthquake, killing thousands in Haiti. In Haiti we have about a dozen Evangelical Friends Churches under the direction of Evangelical Friends Church-Eastern Region with 2000-2500 attenders. They are located 30 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many in these hills will be unlikely to get aid from other sources anytime soon, according to John Williams, Eastern Region Superintendent. EFM encourages all our Friends churches to take an offering this Sunday for Haiti. read the rest of this post

Twin Rocks Caretaker Opening

Twin Rocks Friends Camp is looking for a recently retired individual or couple to serve as volunteer caretaker for its beachfront, 50-bed Harbor Villa Retreat Center. The role of caretaker includes 20-30 hours per week of hosting, housekeeping, and routine maintenance. Housing in a 1-bedroom home is provided, as are many meals and fellowship with [...]

Out of My Mind…Living in Joy

As I learn to go deeper into Christ, joy is what I experience. Not giddy happiness. Not an absence from pain or elimination of real-world suffering. In fact, in terms of a sensitivity to others’ suffering, it seems that the deeper one goes into the Christ life, the more one is aware of how much hurt and how much brokenness is in the world. Joy is an altogether different animal, isn’t it? It may cause you to do all kinds of outlandish things. Consider the parable Jesus told in Matthew 13. In this story, a man out wandering in a field stumbles upon a treasure. Read the rest of the editorial.

Updates & Announcements – Jan 2010

News and Announcements: View updates on Latino ministries, ministry transitions, the Thanksgiving offering, Men's and Women's retreats, YCEW, and Peace Month.

Quaker Waggin’s-Dec. 09

Download the December 2009-February 2010 issue In this issue: Patrick Neifert’s update from Israel Peace Through Pieces in the Congo 2009 Retreat photos 2010 Retreat dates A personal testimony – Sharon D. Todd

Woodland Opening

Woodland Friends Church, a congregation of 60 people in a farming community on a beautiful mesa in central Idaho, is looking for a pastor. Please join us in prayer for this search, and if you are interested or know someone who might be, check out their information sheet.