Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers)

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Greenleaf Friends Academy (GFA) is looking for a superintendent (head administrator) to begin serving on or before their 2010-2011 school year. He/She will be responsible for the overall leadership and management of the academy’s mission statement, purpose and objectives. Read more about GFA’s position and see the church openings still receiving applications. Please do not unsubscribe from this announcement format. It affects more people than yourself. Contact Bruce Bishop if you are having difficulties with these announcements.

Three openings for pastoral positions are now available in NWYM, Entiat, Vancouver, and Rose Valley. Read their descriptions.

The Testimony of Quaker Simplicity By Tim Burdick, Tacoma, WA – 2007 In his book, The Quakers in America, Thomas Hamm contends that the Quaker testimony of simplicity is one of only five unifying themes found common to the various persuasions of Friends today. Many Friends today would concur. This paper will examine what the [...]

Here is a library of research papers, dealing with Quaker theology and practice, generated as assignments for the Friends Center at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. Each author has consented to having their paper available here, and you are welcome to make comments and begin dialogue around the topics. The Testimony of Quaker Simplicity- Tim Burdick, [...]

. . Melody George, RiversWay Friends Community in Portland, recently moved with her husband Gil and her daughter Amy Roseanne from Tacoma, Washington. She has developed a Coping with Vicarious Trauma workshop and wrote a Psalm of Lament that we also wanted to share here. . . . In our fast paced culture, we are [...]

Olympic View Friends Church is currently seeking a new pastor. We are a small Friends church in Tacoma, Washington. Though we are hoping to eventually release a person to serve full-time, right now we are probably limited to supporting someone on a bi-vocational basis. We are still working on finalizing a job description. Please see [...]

Puget Sound Area Women’s Retreat All women from across the Northwest are welcome! DATE: April 17 – 19, 2009 LOCATION: Camp McCullough, Covington, WA Guest Speaker: Jan Wood THEME:  Blessing “How blessed is God!  And what a blessing He is!  He’s the father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places [...]

. Tim Burdick is father to Sierra, husband to Heather, and a bi-vocational co-pastor of McKinley Hill Friends Church in Tacoma, Washington. He is also a part-time Ph.D. student at University of Birmingham and loves to play disc golf. . .   My sweet widowed grandmother lives by herself in a house with a four-car [...]