Ongoing/Upcoming Events:

Adult Trips

American Heritage Girls

Angel Food Ministries

Community Night (formerly called Family Night)

Helping Hands Soup Kitchen

Ladies' Bible Study

Verse of the Month  

Wednesday Night Ladies Bible Study will be doing a book study on The Shack by 

William Young a fiction book that presents an "out of the box" view of God and wrestles with

 the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" It is a book 

that is not without controversy (which will also be part of our discussion). The cost of the book 

will be under $10, payable at the first meeting. If you are interested in participating, 

sign up for a book at the information table in the lobby by August 24th. The book will passed out

 in our first meeting on September 3rd at 7 p.m. in room 103. 

We will have our second meeting 2 weeks later, September 17th to give you time to read ahead. 

If you have any questions, call Rhoda Gerig at 260.563.0187.  Back to Index

Mothers get together on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Please come and join with other 

young mothers for a time of sharing, fellowship and a time "away" from your preschoolers.

Childcare is provided. Our theme this year is: ADVENTURES IN MOTHERING. We're really 

looking forward to our new year! Hope to see you and bring along a friend! For more information, call Joy 

Curless (260.563.2626 or at the church office, 260.563.8452.

Missions Opportunity: save canceled postage stamps

Many canceled stamps have resale value and money generated from this is being used to support Quaker Missions. Canceled stamps can be made mailed to: Quaker Haven Missions Mattapoisett Friends Meeting, PO Box 795, Mattapoisett, MA 02739. (Do NOT save 39-cent Flag and Statue of Liberty stamps, 37-cent Flag or Heron stamps,, or 34-cent State of Liberty stamps.)

Addresses and information on Missionaries & 

Mission Stations 

supported by Wabash Friends Church  2007-2008

Friends United Meeting

Sylvia Graves, General Secretary

101 Quaker Hill Drive

Richmond , IN   47374

fum@fum.org / www.fum.org

Friends United Meeting is made up of twenty-nine yearly meetings and several smaller groups of Friends in ten countries.  We work together to proclaim in word and ministry our Friends’ understanding of the Good News of Jesus Christ, who has come “to teach His people Himself.”  We believe that this message reaches across cultural lines to offer a victorious way of life marked by peace, justice, and a community life of quality, mutual accountability and biblically-based discernment.

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Kenya :

Lugulu Friends Hospital

PO Box 43

Lugulu via Webuye  50218  Kenya , East Africa

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Turkana Friends Mission

John & Grace Moru

PO Box 308

Lodwar, 30500  Kenya , East Africa

johmoru@yahoo.com

The Turkana Friends Mission is located in the harsh sub-Sahara region of northwestern Kenya .  Pastor s there continue ministering to the very large and poor area of nomadic people west of Lake Turkana .  They  continue to plant new churches and nurture those which are growing as they meet under scrub trees or under thatch shelters.   Education and evangelism help in the transition of the Turkana lifestyle from nomadic herdsmen to a more settled lifestyle.  We are thankful for the new churches this mission is starting among the various clans of the Turkana people.  These clans locate near dry river beds and the mission pastors go into their communities to offer schooling for the children and to begin reaching out to the adults with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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Samburu Friends Mission

Isaiah Bikokwa

PO Box 1791

Kitale, 30200 Kenya , East Africa

(or) PO Box 396

Maralal  20600  Kenya , East Africa

isaiahbikokwa@yahoo.com

The Samburu Friends Mission is directed by Pastor Isaiah Bikokwa who came to the Samburu District to plant churches among a tribe of unreached people.  Since 1995 Isaiah has reached most of the nine areas and there are two mission stations each with a school, dispensary, and church.  Kenyan missionaries continue to live among this tribe and minister to their spiritual and physical needs with God’s help.

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Friends Theological College

Ben & Jody Richmond

PO Box 9

Tiriki,  50309   Kenya , East Africa

ftc@africaonline.co.ke

Friends Theological College in Kaimosi , Kenya , prepares students for pastoral ministry and Christian leadership in East Africa .  With over 70 students and an independent Board of Governors, FTC encourages academic excellence and spiritual growth, seeking to integrate faith and learning, while focusing on the process of maturing in Christ, from a Friends’ perspective.  FTC offers three academic programs ranging from a one year course introduction to pastoral ministry to a degree level of rigorous theological education and intensive preparation for pastoral ministry or leadership in Christian education. Courses in theology, Bible, pastoral ministry, pastoral counseling, Quakerism, church history, and English are basic courses of study at each level. 

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Friends United Meeting East Africa

Jim and Eden Grace

PO Box 478

Kisumu 40100  Kenya , East Africa

            graces@fum.org

The Africa Ministries office is the base for the Friends United Meeting support to yearly meetings currently in Kenya , Tanzania , Uganda and elsewhere in Africa .  Kenyan Friends form the largest national group of Friends in the world.  The Africa Ministries Representative of FUM, John Muhanji, and Field Staff, James and Eden Grace, form a team that provides leadership training to enhance and establish the identity of the Friends Church in Africa. Their work provides consultation among the 15 member Yearly Meetings of FUM in Africa and the growing number of associated groups.   They also provide pastoral, management, and governance support to the FUM projects in Kenya including Lugulu Hospital , the Samburu Mission, the Turkana Mission, and Friends Theological College .

James and Eden Grace, Friends United Meeting Representatives to Africa, along with their sons, Jesse and Isaiah, live in Kisumu , Kenya .  Their responsibilities as field staff include maintaining a working and open relationship between the home office in Richmond, Indiana, and the various yearly meetings and mission projects sponsored by FUM in Africa.  They also are working partners with the Africa Ministries Representative, John Muhanji, to support the educational, motivational, and governing principles of the Friends Church in Africa .

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Friends Kaimosi Mission Hospital
PO Box Private Bag

50309 Tiriki

KENYA EAST AFRICA

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            Dr. Bob & Hope Carter

            c/o SIM Kenya

PO Box 60875

00200 City Square

Nairobi , Kenya , East Africa

            Bob.carter@sim.org

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Ethiopia-

Project Mercy

            7011 Ardmore Ave

            Ft. Wayne , IN   46809

            PMInfo@projectmercy.org   

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  Egypt :

Word Made Flesh

Melanie Curless

Cairo American College

PO Box 39

Maasi  11431, Cairo EGYPT

melanie.curless@wordmadeflesh.com

www.wordmadeflesh.com

Position: Health & Development Advisor, Word Made Flesh

 Word Made Flesh (WMF) is called and committed to serving Jesus among the poorest of the world's poor. The calling is realized as a prophetic ministry for, and a holistic ministry among, the world's poor. The method is incarnational. The means is community.

WMF births communities which practice the presence and proclamation of the Kingdom of God among the poorest of the poor. These Kingdom communities are placed and nurtured within the Two-Thirds World mega-cities. Their involvement includes advocacy for the poor, ministries of compassion and proclamation of the Good News. WMF exists that Jesus, the Living Word, be made flesh.

Melanie currently lives in Cairo , Egypt with her husband Marc who works as a high school counselor at an international school. Melanie has served the WMF community since 2002 as Health & Development Advisor in a part time capacity. This role supports the head office through input on health related policy and community care needs.

Melanie is also available to field staff for advice and support as needed. She also periodically visits WMF fields to keep in touch with on the ground needs and offer support and training as needed.

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Cuba Yearly Meeting Office

            Maria Yi Reyna

            Calle 20#118

esquina Paz Reparto Vista Algere

Hoguin 80300

CUBA

mariayi@enet.cu

Ramon Gonzalez Longoria

Ave Libertad #110

Puerto Padre L Tunas

77210 Cuba

longoria@enet.cu

The churches in Cuba continue to experience growth and are thankful for a lessening of the government imposed restrictions and regulations which have hindered the church.  The deeply committed group of yearly meeting pastors is working to develop leadership through training seminars developed with their own yearly meeting.  Many young people are coming to the church.  Friends in Cuba have persevered through many difficult years and are providing a valuable witness to their people.  Economic and social factors have caused many Friends from these areas to relocate.  Cuba has five monthly meetings with about 300 members.

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Ramallah:

            Ramallah Friends Girls’ School

            Diana Abdel Nour, Principal

PO Box 166

Ramallah, West Bank, via Israel

diana_abdelnour@hotmail.com

Ramallah Friends Boys’ School

Mahmoud Amra, Head of School

PO Box 66

El Bireh, West Bank, via Israel

The Friends Schools, were founded by Friends over 100 years ago. Today between them they educate over 1000 Palestinian students from kindergarten through grade 12.   The schools promote Christian Quaker values which encourages responsible, intelligent leadership in the community.   

Teaching is in English and Arabic and offers a quality co-ed western liberal education of courses leading to the International Baccalaureate at Certificate and Diploma level.  The schools also offer their own High School Diploma on completion.  30% of the graduating students earn scholarships for a college education in the US or Europe .  Most of the remaining 70% continue their education in Palestine or the Middle East .

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Muna Khleifi

Amari Play Center

Friends Schools

PO Box 18601

91184 Jerusalem , Israel

munak@palnet.com

The Amari Play Center , situated on the campus of an UNRWA School for Girls, is a center much in demand among the mothers of the Amari Refugee Camp just outside Ramallah/el-Bireh townships. The Center takes a maximum of fifty children each year and every year the demand far exceeds the number of allocations. The Center offers a respite from the deprivation and incipient violence of life in the Camp.  This Christian environment offers largely Muslim children a hope of a quality education, a future free of oppression and a glimpse of freedom which their families can hold onto.  Muna Khliefi is the Play Center Supervisor. The work of the Play Center is much appreciated by the Camp and its authorities.

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South America :          

            Northwest Yearly Meeting

George Fox Tech School

            200 North Meridian street

Newberg , OR   97123-2714

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Food for the Hungry

Paul & Megan McCann 

pmccann80@yahoo.com

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Central America :

Belize Friends Boys’ School

Mike & Kay Cain

PO Box 454

Belize City , Belize

Central America 00106-4000

cains@fum.org

Mike and Kay Cain manage the Friends Boys Continuation School in Belize City .  Boys who come to this school for a year have failed or not completed their Elementary School Leaving Certificate and so are not eligible to continue their education in High School.  If it were not for the Continuation School , they  would be at risk living on the street, prone to violence and drug abuse, and have no guidance or direction.  They often come from troubled backgrounds and are social failures of the school system. The Continuation School gives them a second chance.  The supportive environment created by the school helps restore their self esteem, reconnect them with family support and offers them a moral code undergirded by a Christian Quaker presence.

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Evangelical Friends Church Southwest

Guatemalan Radio Ministry

PO Box 1607

Whittier , CA   90609-1607

www.efcsw.org/contact.html for info & contact

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Pacific:

Wycliffe Bible Translaters

Triston & Kim Craven

SIL                                      

P.O. Box 413                         

Ukarumpa, EHP 444             

Papua New Guinea                

10/40 Window

Global Disciples

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U.S.A.

Mesquakie Friends Center

Victor & Brenda White

PO Box 36

Toledo , IA   52342-0036

www.acfiaquaker.org

Mesquakie Friends Center is located on a thirty-acre campus with a small lake providing an excellent setting not far from the Mesquakie “settlement.”  This is the Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs’ newest center which recently has become a part of Iowa Yearly Meeting and will be considered for Monthly Meeting status.  The ministry emphasis is on youth ministry, community contacts and being a steady presence in the community.  This is important in an area where missions have come and gone, sometimes rather quickly.  Some adults have become involved in worship and are taking leadership roles.  A worshipping community is being built up.  

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Kickapoo Friends Center

Brad & Christine Wood

PO Box 570

McLoud , OK   74851-0570

www.acfiaquaker.org

The center maintains active children and youth programs including work programs for earning their way to camp and other activities.  There is a strong worshipping congregation which is developing its own leadership and has recently become a monthly meeting.   Practical classes are offered to the community (e.g. money management) and a clothes closet helps needy families.

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Quaker Haven Camp

Brandon Dennis, Camp Manager

111 EMS   D16C Lane

Syracuse , IN   46567

www.quakerhaven.com / info@quakerhaven.com

Quaker Haven Camp is owned jointly by Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings.  The attractive camp on the shores of Dewart Lake accommodates a series of summer youth camps and has ever-improving facilities for year-round use by all ages.  The camp is one of the valuable tools for IYM’s ministries.  We are fortunate to have a quality campground for summer camps and year-round accommodations for meetings, church groups and families.

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White’s Residential & Family Svcs.

Brad & Missy Wright, Chaplains

5233 S  50 E

Wabash , IN   46992

www.whiteskids.org / dee.gibson@whitesrfs.org

White’s Residential & Family Services is a youth care facility ministering to young people who have been placed there by the court or child welfare system.  The goal of the staff is to lead each teen to Christ through a loving and caring atmosphere.

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CSI Ministries

1714 W Royale Drive

Muncie , IN   47304-2240

csi@csiministries.org

CSI Ministries focuses on serving local churches in need of assistance to place members of their fellowships in " Samaria " ( U.S. locations) and to the "ends of the earth" (locations in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America ).  These ministry outreaches are part of their "Acts 1:8" plans.  In addition to serving local churches, CSI Ministries welcomes high school and college groups in search of service opportunities in the States and in other countries. Help in setting up a ministry outreach or service project as well as putting in place the travel, lodging, meals, and project materials logistics necessary for a quality experience are ways in which CSI Ministries excels in serving.  In Haiti , CSI Ministries owns and operates a medical clinic and orphanage ( H.O.P.E. Center for Girls) in Croix-des-Bouquets. In Jamaica , CSI Ministries oversees a student support program as well as an ongoing house-building ministry since housing on that island is a great need. In North America, CSI Ministries is committed to ongoing restoration outreaches in New Orleans as well as expanding ministry through outreaches to First Nations groups in the Southwest.

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Joni & Friends Chicago Area

915 Harger Road, Suite 10

Oak Park , IL   60523

http://chicago.joniandfriends.org/

Joni and Friends was founded in 1979 as the disability outreach of Joni Eareckson Tada. The Chicago Field Ministry is the local expression of a global commitment to identify and meet the needs of those touched by disability. They seek to accomplish this by training the local church for effective outreach and ministry to the overlooked mission field of the disability community. Additional ministry programs include Family Retreats for families affected by disability and Wheels for the World – the collection and delivery of wheelchairs to those in need in developing countries.  Joni and Friends Chicago serves the North Central United States from their office located in Oak Brook , Illinois .  Many volunteers from Wabash Friends, including Peter Boone and his family, serve each summer at the camp in Syracuse at Oakwood.

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Lakeland Child Evangelism Ministries

Steve Sechrist, Director

PO Box 612

Winona Lake , IN  46590

lcem@kconline.com

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L.I.F.E. Center

Jenny Friedersdorf, Director

88 N Wabash Street

Wabash , IN   46992

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Helping Hands Soup Kitchen

20 East Canal Street

Wabash , IN   46992

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Lighthouse Missions

806 North Cass Street

Wabash , IN   46992

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The Access

Rick Tolley, Director

PO Box 102

Wabash , IN   </