Faithful | July 23-26, 2023

We are excited to hold this year’s Annual Sessions at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. This year we plan to offer our conference as a hybrid. We encourage people to attend in person, if they are able, but there will be an option to attend virtually and sessions and workshops will be video recorded. Notice: we start on Sunday morning in local churches, and depart for home from George Fox University on Wednesday morning.)

NWYM Annual Sessions 2023 Schedule

Sunday, July 23
Opening Session in the worship service at your local church | Featuring: Dr. Jim Le Shana (general superintendent)
    1:00-4:00 p.m. | Registration (Bauman Foyer)
    4:00-5:00 p.m. | Representative’s Training (Hoover 105)
    5:30 p.m. | General Session, Missions Banquet | Featuring: Dan Cammack, Field Director for Evangelical Friends Mission | Canyon Commons Banquet Rooms 101-103
7:30 p.m. | Ice Cream Fellowship | Canyon Commons Dining Hall

Monday-Tuesday, July 24-25
    6:45 – 7:30 a.m. | Early Christians Prayer Meeting | Prayer Chapel
7:30 – 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast is served| Canyon Commons
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome, Worship, & Devotional | Canyon Commons
        Monday | TBD; Tuesday | TBD
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon | Meeting for Worship through Business | Canyon Commons
12 noon – 1:00 pm | Lunch | Canyon Commons
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Equipping Workshops | Hoover Building
3:00 – 5:00 | Suggested Meeting Time for Boards | Hoover Building
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Dinner| Canyon Commons
        Monday | Barclay College Reception in CC 101
        Tuesday | Pastor’s Appreciation Dinner Reception in CC 102-3
7:00 p.m. | Evening Worship | Featuring: Dr. Manny Garcia | Bauman Auditorium
8:30 p.m. | Fellowship Receptions | Bauman Foyer

Wednesday, July 26
    6:45 – 7:30 a.m. | Early Christians Prayer Meeting | Canyon Commons
7:30 – 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast is served | Canyon Commons
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Additional board meeting or committee meeting option, fellowship time, and good-byes
11:00 a.m. | Check out

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Speakers:

Main Speaker – Dr. Manny Garcia (Monday and Tuesday evenings, July 24 & 25)

Manny serves as the superintendent of Iowa Yearly Meeting, previously pastoring at Northridge Friends Church, in Wichita, KS. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Barclay College and earned a Doctor of Ministry from Portland Seminary. You will enjoy and be inspired by his messages!

Annual Missions Banquet Speaker – Dan Cammack (Sunday Evening, July 23)

As Field Director for Evangelical Friends Mission, Dan regularly travels all over the world to countries where Friends missionaries and national leaders are carrying out the Great Commission. If you want a clearer vision for what God is doing, and how He can use us to make a difference, you won’t want to miss this important event.

All-NWYM Sunday Worship Service – Dr. Jim Le Shana, Speaker (Sunday Morning, July 23)

This Kick-Off gathering for our 2023 NWYM Sessions, occurs digitally in each of our local churches during their normal Sunday morning worship time. This is the one time each year when our entire family of Friends Churches shares the same experience together, helping to create a greater sense of unity and an extended circle of involvement for both new and older members. Jim serves as the general superintendent of NWYM.

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NWYM Midyear Meetings – February 10,11, 2023 to be held online

NOTE: Anyone in NWYM is welcome and invited to attend the NWYM Vision Banquet and the Equipping Workshops, but all pastors, elders, representatives, board members, and other church leaders will be especially interested. All times posted are Pacific Standard Time.

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“Together, to Multiply”.

We want everyone to commit to the concept of planting churches. This conference will be a great opportunity to take the next step.

From the conference on November 9-11, 2022.

About the Conference

An inspiring, world-wide Great Commission gathering!

Due to an overwhelmingly positive response to this conference in 2020, we are offering it again as a 100% online experience that will connect evangelically-minded Friends from homes, local churches, and Yearly Meetings, and regions all over the globe.

Join the Friends Church multiplication movement—you will be inspired, challenged, encouraged, and thankful to be part of what God is doing! You won’t want to miss it!

• Strategic, Practical Workshops
• Fellowship reception to connect with like-minded people around the globe
• Affinity group gatherings for regional leaders, church planters, pastors of potential mother churches, prayers, and more
• Fresh ideas to apply to your home church

View the 2022 Schedule [VIEW/DOWNLOAD]

Register to access conference materials ($25 registration).

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Sponsored by Northwest Yearly Meeting

The 2023 Pastors Advance will take the place of the Call to Ministry Conference this fall.

2023 Information

Theme: Faithful

Dates: October 16-18, 2023
Location: Eagle Crest Resort, Redmond, OR

Speaker:

Rick Darden, pastor of Friends Community Church, Brea

Music Leader:

To be announced

For information and registration: [CLICK HERE]

An Annual Gathering for Pastors, Spouses, Friends Serving Abroad, Seminary Students, and Ministry Leaders in NWYM of Friends Church

We invite you to a time of rest, renewal and play. Enjoy the company of other sisters and brothers who serve and seek to honor Jesus and his people. This is a time to renew the joy of seeking and following Christ, to reconnect and make new friends, and to walk the beach and enjoy God’s creation. The food is pretty wonderful as well!

2024 Information

Dates: March 4-7, 2024

Location: Twin Rocks Friends Camp

Main Speaker: TBA

Registration coming soon.

Man Camp 2023 at Quaker Hill Camp

The purpose of Friends Men, is to keep our eyes on Jesus, find our identity in Christ, listen to the Holy Spirit, and so bear witness as to how Jesus makes a difference in our lives. We do this to be transformed into the image of Christ (Romans 8:29), to go into all the world and tell the Good News to everyone, everywhere (Mark 16:15), so that Jesus may make a difference in the lives of others.

Dates: February 24-26, 2023

For more information and registration [CLICK HERE]

Friends Women

Friends Women coordinates women’s groups in the individual churches of the yearly meeting area. Projects include the support of a missionary family on a foreign field and partial support of a family in Northwest Yearly Meeting involved in church planting. It also serves as an information link with the work of Evangelical Friends International. Groups within individual churches also have service projects in their local areas, as well as holding fellowship and support meetings.

Goals

• To provide Christian fellowship.
• To provide support through prayer and monetary support to home and Friends Serving Abroad (FSA).
• To provide service and support in our local churches.

If you would like to read an essay Geraldine Willcuts wrote about Friends women you can download it by clicking  [HERE].

General Information
Dues per member: $25.00. Make checks payable to Friends Women and mail to Janelle Nordyke, 200 N. Meridian Street, Newberg, OR  97132.

Reading

• Spiritual Growth/Christian Living
• Quaker History and Doctrine
• Missions, Christian Fiction
• Biography/Autobiography

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Greetings from the 2023 RISE Retreat Team

It is retreat time again. We are so excited that RISE Retreat 2023 will be here soon and hope that you will help us get the word out to your church and community again.

Renovaré – Building a firm foundation.
Quaker Hill Camp in McCall, ID
September 15-17, 2023

Women from Friends churches all over Idaho and beyond are invited, as well any other women, just looking for a chance to “retreat” from the everyday and go deeper in their faith journey. Thank you for all you do for the kingdom and hope you will help us spread the word about RISE 2023!

Our theme this year is Renovaré – Building a firm foundation. This event available to all women who want to get away for some rest and reflection, be inspired, be submerged in God’s word and build a proper foundation on Christ.

“No one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” –1 Corinthians 3:11

Click the slide link below for a poster/slide you can use at your church this week to get the word out about this year’s retreat. We hope that you can share this attached slide for your morning church announcements. Or it can be printed out and tucked into a bulletin.  [POSTER]

Speaker: Jeanine Le Shana

Special Note!! Early Bird ($155) discount has been extended to August 15th. After August 15, price goes up to to $175, so register soon!

Need help with registration? Call Ellen Morse at 208-850-3131. She will make it happen! Hope to see you at RISE Renovaré – Building a firm foundation!

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