Planning group includes Friends from El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S.

After nearly two years of planning, the Latin American Peace Conference of the Historic Peace Churches will take place starting on Sunday, November 28th in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  Of the approximately 70 participants, twenty Quakers - about equally divided between men and women - will participate.  This event will be viewable as a live webcast during the event, which concludes on December 3rd.  The proceedings will be video recorded for future viewing as well.

Despite disappointments about not every country where Friends are present being represented, a diverse group of participants from all three denominations - Friends, Mennonites and Brethren - involving people who have devoted years to peace work on many different levels, are expected.  Participants will worship together, listen to each others' stories, break down into small groups to focus on specific aspects of peace seeking, and in the end will created a formal conference document that includes an action plan for working more effectively for peace throughout Latin America.

FWCC Section of the Americas has committed its restricted resources for peace work for this conference.

See the conference live from this page. 

2010 Annual Meeting in Maryland

The business meeting of the Section of the Americas will take place Thursday and Friday, March 17 & 18, 2011, at Friends Center in Philadelphia, PA.  All FWCC representatives should plan to attend. Meetings of FWCC's committees will also be held at this time. Following the business meetings, a Salt and Light event will take place beginning on Friday evening and continuing through Saturday evening. All Friends are invited to attend both the business meeting and the Salt and Light program.  

With the Section's focus on holding Salt and Light events throughout 2011, the decision was taken by the body of the 2010 Annual Meeting to change the nature of the 2011 Annual Meeting. 

Look for registration information soon on our website.

Friends considering applying for the position of Executive Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas are reminded that the deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, December 1. 

More information on the application procedure can be found on our website.

Or, contact the clerk of the Search Committee.

Yearly meetings should already have told FWCC's World Office how many of their allocated delegate places to the April 2012 World Conference of Friends they will be taking up. The deadline for forwarding the names and contact information of delegates is January 15, 2011, but you are encouraged to send them at any time to the World Office of FWCC.

Please publicize the conference widely within your yearly meeting and begin to raise funds to support not only your delegates but also the travel and accommodation fund for Friends from the developing world.  We will provide details on how you can help in 2011.  

Read more about the Sixth World Conference of Friends.

Salt and Light events are opportunities for Friends in the Americas to take part in conversations leading up to the 2012 World Conference of

Felicity McCartney and Sheila Hoyer respond to questions after event in Woodland, NC.

Friends, by considering its theme of Being Salt and Light: Friends living the kingdom of God in a broken world.  Guided by speakers who have themselves 'been salt or light' in broken places or circumstances, and others who can help us understand the theology behind the theme, these events are planned and coordinated by the Section Office.  

Contact us for more information on how you can host a Salt & Light event. 

Global Change cluster meetings are an initiative of FWCC's World governing body, the Central Executive Committee. These meetings are intended as independently convened gatherings led by interested groups of Friends. The outcomes are reported directly to the world-wide coordinating body of the Global Change initiative.  

Read more about the Global Change initiative.