Quaker Waggin’s – September, October, November 2007
Quaker Waggin’s
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Let Us Build Fellowship Together – Colin
06/07/2007 By Leave a Comment
Over the next several months, I will focus this space on exploring our identity as NWYM Friends. A clear message communicated throughout the vision and long-range planning process emphasized our need to relearn and reclaim our identity as Christ-centered Friends. Together, we believe we have something significant to offer the world as we are faithful [...]
George Fox University Church Matching Program
06/07/2007 By Leave a Comment
The deadline for applying for the George Fox University Church Matching program is August 1 for this fall semester. The form is available online from the University. The University Church Match program will match up to $600 annually from any Friends Church for each student from that meeting. The Yearly Meeting will match an additional [...]
Investors Wanted for Church Expansion Projects
06/07/2007 By Leave a Comment
Since 1955 Friends Church Extension Fund (FCEF), a Northwest Yearly Meeting agency has assisted Friends churches and other Friends organization with loans for building and expansion projects. Funds for these projects come from Yearly Meeting members who are willing to loan FCEF in the form of one- or three-year investment certificates. Several new building projects [...]
Roberts’ Reflections – He Was a Good Father
06/01/2007 By Leave a Comment
In conversation about my Mother’s Day Reflections, Margaret Lemmons jokingly insisted that to be gender-fair I should feature Father’s Day equally. So, Margaret, here goes. From Google I learned that Father’s Day was started by a Spokane woman, Sonora Smart Dodd. This idea came while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. She thought [...]
