• Sunday 3:30p - Global Outreach Rally
• Sunday 7p - Worship with Keynote Address by Colin Saxton no live stream. Will be available for viewing later this week. (Broken water main at webmaster’s home!)
• Monday - Wednesday 7p - Evening Worship with Tony Campolo

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YCEW 2008 

The board would like to create a vision for youth ministries in NWYM and need your help doing this. We are interested to know two main things - What do you feel like God is calling you to do in youth ministry? and, How can NWYM assist either locally or yearly meeting wide?

The youth sponsor from the meeting where you worship should receive a letter with the date and time of said area gathering. Please feel free to just show up at your area gathering. Here is the list of area gatherings with dates. Contact me with any questions you might have - at Leshodg at gmail dot com.

Newberg Area, along with Hillsboro & Tigard
April 13, 3-5 p.m. (concluding with a meal)
North Valley Friends

Salem Area
April 20, 3-5p.m. (concluding with a meal)
Silverton Friends

Portland Area
April 27, 3-5p.m. (concluding with a meal)
West Hills Friends

Southern Oregon Area
May 18, 3-5 p.m. (concluding with a meal)
Medford Friends Church

Inland Area (North Idaho, northeast Wash.)
June 22, 3-5 p.m. (concluding with a meal)
Hayden Lake Friends Church

Puget Sound Area
June 29, 3-5 p.m. (concluding with a meal)
North Seattle Friends

Southern Idaho Area
July 13, 3-5 p.m. (concluding with a meal)
Caldwell Friends Church

Colin Saxton, General Superintendent will clerk these meetings. What comes out of these meetings will shape our vision for youth ministry in the northwest - I want to do what God is calling us to do and am excited to hear it!
Thanks - Leslie

The cost is $150 person, with an additional $40 if you desire one of the lodge rooms (limited space available). Contact your local church or the Yearly Meeting office (503-538-9419) for a brochure and registration form.

At Twin Rocks, our guest speaker is Tim Tsohantaridis, Professor of Biblical Studies and Greek at GFU, native of Thessaloniki, Greece, ordained in the Greek Evangelical Church and a recorded NWYM minister. Tim will be focusing on this theme, “Learning from our Past to impact our Future.” We will be looking at the Good Samaritan story, reflecting on our own past actions, and learning lessons on how to identify our neighbor, and how to be a good neighbor in the future. This is a timely message that the church needs to hear and we as men need to wrestle with. Dan Banham, pastor of City’s Edge, will again be leading us in worship. Come prepared to lift your praise to God.

At Quaker Hill, Melba Friends worship team members will lead in praise and worship as we prepare our hearts to hear God’s message from Steve Diehl. Steve is the founder of Forgiveness Ministries and travels extensively giving seminars on forgiveness.

Again, we want to invite you to set aside this weekend, February 22-24, and join us at either Quaker Hill or Twin Rocks Friends Camp for our annual Men’s Retreats. Also, remember pastors, your weekend is on us. So bring your men and enjoy a weekend at the beach or mountains. And as always, there will be plenty of good food, inspired worship and blessed teaching.

Brochures are available at your churches and as a downloadable PDF at this link.

Please contact me if you have any questions: mulkeyronald@yahoo.com or call: 541-390-6696.

Happy New Year,

Ron Mulkey

Message/epistle from the 22nd Triennial

To Friends the world over:

308 Friends from 41 countries, representing many different branches of the Quaker family, met at King’s Hospital School in Dublin from 11th to 19th August 2007. At our time of arrival, we were welcomed by Irish Friends, who with great love, dedication and enthusiasm made us feel part of their lives. Thanks to their contacts and enormous work by the visa team (Ireland and the FWCC World Office), visas were obtained for a much greater number of participants than was formerly possible, making the gathering more truly representative of our whole membership.

Ireland has a long Quaker tradition dating from 1654 when William Edmundson settled in Ulster. From the beginning Quakers established a reputation for fair dealing and good works. They are still remembered for providing food and employment during the great famine in the 1840’s. More recently, in Northern Ireland, they worked to bring opposing sides together and thus contributed to reconciliation. The island of Ireland contains the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, but Irish Quakers have one Yearly Meeting.

The theme for the Triennial was

“Finding the prophetic voice for our time.”

In our daily worship we have heard seven Friends giving their message on the theme. We have been reminded of the tradition of prophecy in the Old Testament and in the early Christian church. We have learned of the characteristics of the prophets, including humility and faithfulness, and even a reluctance to take on a job they never applied for. Just as the Old Testament prophets and George Fox challenged the people of their own time, we have been challenged to realise the prophetic message of God’s love in our lives. “Let the love of Christ flow into us, and through us to others that they too may know Christ.” If George Fox returned to the world today, would he feel that we were continuing his ministry? Prophetic words are however not enough–prophecy is also action. We can recognise prophetic ministry in the persistent and patient witness of our Quaker organisations and the many examples of peace and community building in the troubled regions of our world. The growing number of Friends transforming their lives to help our endangered planet are also living in the prophetic tradition.

We have felt the joy, passion and excitement of such committed living. It is our hope that we can recognise and encourage the prophets among us. Can we be open to the possibility of ourselves being called to such service which leads us to experience “the fruit of the spirit” (Gal. 5:22)?

During the Triennial we worked together on many vital concerns of Friends today, such as the destruction of the environment, human rights, HIV/AIDS, violence, outreach and growth and the increasing involvement of young Friends. we were blessed by the energy of a larger number of Young Friends at this Triennial, several of whom played an important part in the planning and running of this meeting. Worship and sharing groups enriched and deepened friendships, as did the excursions organised by Irish Friends.

As we were together, news of the earthquake in Peru, the landslide in Kenya and the typhoon in the Philippines reached us. We stopped our proceedings to pray for those affected by these disasters and continue to hold them in our hearts.

At the business sessions, some important decisions about the future of FWCC were reached. Instead of having a Triennial in three years’ time, there is to be a World Conference in five years’ time.

Welcome, Friends, to Kenya in 2012!

Duduzile Mtshazo, Clerk

Friends World Committee for Consultation