Being Salt and Light: upcoming events

 

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Additional locations coming soon.

 

Locations

August, 2011

El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras - Esteban Ajnota Ajnota, National Evangelical Friends Church of Bolivia, and Leonardo Catachura Ticona, National Evangelical Friends Church of Peru, will lead a youth gathering in El Salvador and then visit among Friends and lead local Salt & Light gatherings. August 4-23.

Jamaica - David Wolfe and Linda Kusse-Wolfe will lead a Salt & Light gathering during the annual sessions of Jamaica Yearly Meeting. August 11-14 in Highgate at the Swift Purcell Boys Home.

October, 2011

Urbana-Champaign, IL - Friday, October 7. With David Wolfe and Linda Kusse-Wolfe.

Kokomo, IN - Saturday, October 8. With David Wolfe & Linda Kusse-Wolfe

South Bend, IN - Sunday, October 9. With David Wolfe & Linda Kusse-Wolfe

Atlanta, GA - weekend of October 14-16. With Abel Sibonio and Valerie Joy

Louisville, KY - weekend of October 21-23. With Abel Sibonio and Valerie Joy

Cincinnati, OH - week of October 23. With Abel Sibonio and Valerie Joy

Portland, ME - October 29-30. With Abel Sibonio and Valerie Joy

November, 2011

Hartford, CT - November 3

Wellesley, MA - November 5-6. With Abel Sibonio and Valerie Joy

Speakers

Linda and David Kusse-Wolfe are recorded Friends ministers from University Friends Meeting in Wichita, Kansas. Linda and David carry a ministry of reconciliation among peoples of different races, classes and cultures. This led them to live and study in Qom, Iran, where they were the only publicly-declared Christians in a city of over one million inhabitants. The Holy City of Qom is the center for education for Shiite Muslim clerics. Linda and David will provide opportunities to relate their experiences to current issues of ‘brokenness’ that Friends are facing in their communities. 

Valerie Joy is the Executive Secretary of FWCC's Asia-West Pacific Section. Her international experience of Quakers worldwide has shaped her service to God. Valerie will share some of the special aspects of the lives, projects, difficulties and triumphs, in the context of 'Being Salt and Light," of Friends in Asia and the West Pacific.

 

 

Abel Sibonio, Friends pastor originally from Burundi, will talk about the ‘broken world’ of life in refugee camps in Tanzania. He will share why he and his family migrated to Australia and how his Quaker experience has carried him through the difficulties of becoming established in a new country.