Peace Month Submission Request

The Peace Education subcommittee is accepting submissions for January’s daily devotional focused on how NWYM members are walking in peace. Read More.

House of Ruth

Hruth

A Ministry of Whitney Friends The House of Ruth: Women’s Discipleship Home The House of Ruth Discipleship Program is a Christ-Centered ministry of Whitney Friends Church, providing a safe and loving environment for women to begin living a transformed life. We focus on the inner healing through the redemption of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and [...]

Living Water Ministries

A Immigration Ministry Team exists under the SoHR to explore topics pertinent to this one facet of Human Rights. Resources are becoming available on their specific page. Living Water Ministries, a ministry point of NWYM, serves the people of the Coeur d’Alene Reservation in Plummer, Idaho. They recently held a “Spirit Jam” dance and music outreach Part One (below) [...]

Twenty Four Seven Ministry

Nick

A Ministry of Hayden Lake Friends. Nick and Trinity have been involved with the Twentyfour-Seven program, run by the Hayden Lake Friends Church, since 2007. Nick and Trinity represent all that is good and right about a faith-based approach to transitional recovery programs. This outreach, Twentyfour-Seven has been transformational for the folks at Hayden Lake [...]

Reflections on Quaker Leadership

MaryKate Morse

What do Quakers Bring to Leadership? Plenty. Quakers have contributed a great deal to the understanding of leadership. Many ideas that seem new and fresh in today’s leadership literature were normative for Quakers from the beginning. Our foreparents such as George Fox, Margaret Fell, Elizabeth Fry, Joseph Gurney, and many others practiced a unique form of leadership in Quaker meetings not at all natural in 17th century Europe. Read the rest of this article.

Upholding Our Standards

By Arthur Roberts: What does it means to “be in harmony” with Friends’ principles? Our book of Christian discipline describes faith expressed both in word and in deed. Sound doctrine and right conduct belong together. You don’t want a pastor or elder who teaches sound doctrine but is addicted to pornography, nor a morally upright youth leader who discounts the resurrection as a myth. Read the rest of this article.

Out of My Mind-Spaciousness

Colin Saxton: peace is much, much more than the absence of conflict. Rather, as it is imagined in its fullness, it is an unhindered, contented life lived before God and in the beloved community belonging to God. It is learning to live in the righteousness and justice of God in every sphere of one’s life, depending as we must on God’s overwhelming mercy for us to even make a start in this direction. In the Christian context, it is learning to walk in the fullness of our faith, becoming people of truth and a community of light, even as we live in an oftentimes faithless and dark world.

I am struck again and again by the “spacious place” verse found in 2 Samuel. Though directed in particular to David, I think the invitation is open to all of us: God bringing us into a spacious place, in part, because God delights in us. Read the rest of this article.

Reflections on Recording

Deborah Climer

As Friends, we try to make a “record” of the fact that God has already uniquely called and gifted an individual for public ministry. We don’t “ordain” and somehow give the person special power they didn’t have from God already. We assume God does the ordaining and our task is to be a community that looks for those people God has called to public ministry and then name it as a community. Read one person’s experience.

Spanish-Language Ministry Training Program

Antonio and Mina Mandujano

In January, the Latin American Center for Theological Studies (CETLA) completed its first cycle of seven courses for its Certificate in Bible Ministry. This is a partnership program between NWYM Latino Ministries and Barclay College. Antonio Mandujano, pastoring a second Spanish-speaking congregation under Iglesia Amigos en Newberg, was the first graduate. Read more about this program.

Keeping Current with Global Outreach – Latin Voices

Working on peer editing

The wise old saying goes, “Don’t give a poor person a fish. Teach him to fish.” For me that saying becomes, “Don’t just give someone a book. Teach her to write!” Slowly I have comme to the realization that the best literature for the Aymara people would be books, stories, and songs written by Aymara writers. Read about Nancy’s journey.