By Tim Engle, 2008 Youth Yearly Meeting Recording Clerk Working with the senior high Youth Yearly Meeting was a privilege; we certainly heard from God this summer in our collective worship. However, the process of discernment was something I admit I underestimated, and something that proved to carry much more gravity than I ever would [...]
Keeping Current: Poor Me… and You
10/01/2008 By Leave a Comment
By Shawn McConaughey ~ NWYM Superintendent of Global Outreach and Pastoral Care “The way we understand the nature of poverty and what causes poverty is very important, because it tends to determine how we respond to poverty” (Bryant L. Myers, Walking with the Poor, p. 12) One of the fundamental shifts I’ve been experiencing the [...]
Keeping Current: Giving a Hand Up
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“To some people I would be a throw away,” Debra says. “But you do need me.” Among her repertoire of drugs were meth and ecstasy. Four years in juvenile detention for assault. Gangs. Trafficking women in prostitution. But don’t mistake Debra’s comment as arrogance. It is, instead, proof that she believes in forgiveness and restoration. [...]
Spotlight on Micah Lehman
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A goal of the NWYM Global Outreach Board is to highlight NWYM folks who serve with other mission or relief agencies. Life = surprises. I grew up in Greenleaf, Idaho, explaining to everyone outside of town that Quakers do in fact believe in electricity. And now I live in a culture where anything not part [...]
