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		<title>Summer Youth Ministry Internships at NWYM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northwest Yearly Meeting Summer Internship: Youth Ministry Focus Each summer Northwest Yearly Meeting hires two summer interns to help implement and administer many summer youth programs.  The selected interns work closely with the NWYM Associate Superintendent of Youth and Young Adults, Rachelle Staley, to facilitate and or organize: Youth Yearly Meeting – A week long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quaker Waggin&#8217;s January–February 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In this issue: FW Triennial Report News from Nepal Annual Report Info Global Outreach Speakers 2011-12 Project Updates Facebook Address Subscription Information Midyear FWMF Exec. Meeting Schedule &#160; Download a copy of the newsletter &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Tilikum Hiring 2012 Summer Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tilikum is looking for 30 amazing individuals to serve on its 2012 summer staff. A summer at Tilikum offers an incredible experience that will push you to grow in community, Christian living, and service, plus the chance to share God’s love with thousands of children and youth!  If you or someone you know is interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Together as the People of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it puzzles me when people grump about the “organized church” (a bit rare actually) or the “institutionalized church” (maybe some should be). Of course I’m not surprised that people in groups, including churches, sometimes bumble along or act badly. That happens in we’re-not-a-church churches, too. It does surprise me, though, how easily we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain &amp; Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson set out in 1806 to tell the story of Quakers, to help the larger English-speaking world understand these foreign-seeming Friends. He titled the work, A Portraiture of Quakerism. Why Quakers? As Clarkson puts it, he had been “thrown frequently into the company of the people, called Quakers” in his work against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Just Moms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book, Just Moms: Conveying Justice in an Unjust World, came out last spring from Barclay Press. It’s a collection of essays from moms in peace churches about the challenges and joys of being a mom and attempting to raise kids who care about peace and justice in our violent and unjust culture. Several of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru In Retrospect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling to far away places always provides opportunities for reflection. That truth was very evident as I traveled with the team from NWYM to visit our Friends Churches in Peru. A golden anniversary was the occasion. The Peru INELA (yearly meeting) was celebrating 50 years of existence. I suppose one could argue that 50 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Peru 50th Anniversary Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an honor to be able to celebrate 50 years of cooperative ministry between Peru Yearly Meeting and NWYM missions. As missionaries we not only wanted to spread the gospel, start churches and train leadership, we also wanted to emphasize the contextual application of the gospel in the Peruvian culture and language. What I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Complicated Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just moved across the country, from Boston to Newberg, OR, my family and I are on a search for a new community. Five years of doctoral studies often left me feeling alone, bereft of friends and family. But now: Friends! Friends everywhere! Colleagues! Students! I feel as though I’m in some sort of pre-heaven, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quaker Concentrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to religiously drink orange juice from concentrate. It was always a grand adventure getting the frozen pulp to mix with a pitcher full of water in order to get the best orange juice possible. It would take some time, but eventually the chunky water would become orange juice, and I would drink deeply [...]]]></description>
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