| 2011 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia March 17 & 18
Friends Center is the location for this year's abbreviated Annual Meeting on Thursday and Friday, March 17 & 18. It will be followed by Being Salt and Light: Friends living the kingdom of God in a broken world, a gathering on the theme of the 2012 World Conference of Friends. All Friends are invited to both events.
Registration is now open for both the Annual Meeting and the Salt and Light event.
Click here for more information and to register for the Annual Meeting.
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| Salt and Light events in Pacific Northwest and Philadelphia
The next local events on the 2012 World Conference theme Being Salt and Light: Friends living the kingdom of God in a broken world will take place
- Saturday, March 5 at Reedwood Friends Church in Portland, OR
- Friday & Saturday, March 11 & 12 at University Friends Meeting in Seattle, WA
- Friday & Saturday, March 18 & 19 at Friends Center in Philadelphia, PA, following the Annual Meeting
Maudiel and Aminda Arévalo from the Yearly Meeting of the Evangelical Friends Church in El Salvador will speak at the events in the Pacific Northwest. Maudiel and Aminda are gifted pastors and leaders whose daily work involves facing serious challenges in their own community. Wichita, Kansas Friends Linda and David Kusse-Wolfe will address the Philadelphia event. Linda and David experienced a remarkable, life-changing time living as the only public Christians in the holy city of Qom, Iran.
Check our website for details. Online registration starts soon.
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 Has your yearly meeting named its World Conference delegates?
By now, all yearly meetings should have named their delegates to the World Conference of Friends, to be held in Kenya in April 2012. If your yearly meeting is not on this list, it means that the World Office does not have the names. Please arrange for them to be re-sent as soon as possible, since the allocation of open places (applications made directly by individuals) cannot be done until FWCC knows how many vacant delegate spots are available.
The World Office has names from the following yearly meetings: Baltimore YM, Canadian YM, Illinois YM, InterMountain YM, Iowa YM (Cons), Lake Erie YM, Northwest YM, North Carolina YM (FUM), North Carolina (Cons), North Pacific YM.,Ohio YM, Ohio Valley YM, Philadelphia YM, South Central YM, SAYMA, Western YM. Names should be sent as soon as possible to Mary Dobbing, Conference Coordinator.
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World Conference open place applications now being accepted
FWCC's World Office is now receiving applications for open places at the World Conference of Friends to be held in Nakuru, Kenya in April 2012.
You can apply online here.
Read more about the World Conference here.
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PhD Residency Fellowship opportunity at Woodbrooke
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and the University of Birmingham announce that applications are now being accepted for the Taylor PhD Residency Fellowship, to be awarded for three years beginning October 2011.
The Fellowship:
- is home-based PhD study
- provides financial support to live in Woodbrooke while fulfilling a required period of UK residence
- is on the research theme: believing and belonging in present-day British Quakerism, compared with another yearly meeting
Application deadline is March 31, 2011.
For more information click here or visit Woodbrooke's website.
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