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Topic: Evangelical Friends International

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers
		Friends General Conference is a North American organization with an estimated membership of 32,000.
		Friends for a Non-Violent World is a Quaker group, located in Minneapolis, whose goal is to encourage peace, community, and justice in the world through example and education.
		Friends' ability to adapt to change in the world through their 350 year existence has enabled them to remain a strong and active part of the world's community.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/quak.html (4141 words)

	Friendswood Friends Church - The History of Friends and Friendswood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Among ethical testimonies held by Friends were these: religious freedom, opposition to slavery and civil bondage, just treatment of minorities (especially American Indians), humane and remedial treatment of offenders, prison reform, compassionate care of the mentally ill, and aid to war victims and others in physical need.
		Friends taught and practiced peace as opposed to war, calling upon Christians to arm themselves with the Spirit rather than the weapons of this world.
		The Friends General Conference, composed of the "Hicksite" branches of Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Ohio, and Indiana Yearly Meetings, together with Genesee and Illinois, was organized in 1900.
	www.friendswoodfriends.org /about_friends.htm (2338 words)

	EFC-MAYM Faith & Practice
		Recent scholarship has focused attention upon the evangelical nature of early Quakerism; this led to greater cooperation among groups of evangelical Friends.
		The purpose of this organization is an international alliance of Friends Churches that officially accept and communicate the evangelical doctrines of the Christian Faith as defined by its statement of faith.
		Evangelical Friends International – North America is composed of the following Yearly Meetings: Alaska, Evangelical Friends Church – Eastern Region, Evangelical Friends Church – Mid America Yearly Meeting, Friends Church – Southwest, Northwest Yearly Meeting, and Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting.
	www.maym.org /faith_and_practice/part_1/chap_1.htm (1965 words)

	History of Friends
		Evangelical Friends are so called because they believe in the authority of the Bible and in the historical aspects of the doctrine of salvation.
		Friends felt that this was actually a compliment and eventually did not hesitate to use the name themselves.
		Friends were welcomed in Rhode Island which was founded as a haven from the intolerance of Puritan Massachusetts.
	www.pefcpa.com /friends.htm (4790 words)

	Evangelical Friends International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evangelical Friends International (EFI) is an association of Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly meetings (regional associations) around the world that profess evangelical Christian beliefs.
		Evangelical Friends believe that all people are in need of salvation, and that salvation comes to a person by putting his faith in Jesus Christ.
		Evangelical Friends International of North America is part of the National Association of Evanglicals, a large body of Christian denominations and groups in the United States that share evangelical beliefs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evangelical_Friends_International (537 words)

	FFC About Us: Friends History & Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Years later, Friends were instrumental in establishing an effective underground railroad for the relocation of those bound by slavery.
		Evangelical Friends International exists to help local Friends churches around the world meet the spiritual needs of their communities.
		Evangelical Friends churches of North America consist of close to 300 churches in the United States and Canada.
	www.firstfriends.org /about/heritage.html (436 words)

	Who we are
		Friends believe in a personal relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, as a foundation for living.
		The Friends Church began more than three hundred years ago in England under the leadership of George Fox, a man who experienced a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and spent his life sharing this experience with others.
		Those early Friends made great contributions to the spiritual and social needs of their country, taking the lead in securing prison reforms, religious liberty, Christian education, and care for the suffering.
	www.damascusfriends.org /beliefs.htm (458 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Those early friends made great contributions to the spiritual and social needs of their country, religious liberty Christian education, and care for the suffering.
		Before long, the Friends (also called Quakers) began coming to the new world along with the other colonists and soon there were thousands of Friends in America.
		It is now known as the Evangelical Friends Church - Eastern Region and it participates actively in a larger group of Friends across the nation known as the Evangelical Friends International (EFI).
	www.alliancefriendschurch.org /OurHeritage.htm (296 words)

	Friends United Meeting: About FUM - An Introduction
		Friends abolished the laity and became a fellowship of ministers.
		Friends have always recognized that some of their number are more gifted for public ministry than others.
		Friends United Meeting is composed of 20 Yearly Meetings with a membership of about 45,000 in the United States and Canada; an estimated 150,000 in East Africa; and 800 in Jamaica, Belize, Cuba, the West Bank and Mexico.
	www.fum.org /about/friends.htm (1852 words)

	FWCC World Office London
		Evangelical Friends in North America are a collection of five Yearly Meetings mostly comprised of programmed and semi-programmed churches.
		Most EFI (Evangelical Friends International) local churches are served by men or women in pastoral ministry—some full-time, others bi-vocationally, and a few as volunteers.
		Conservative Friends believe that the Scriptures were inspired by the Word and are to be read, considered and used in the service of that Life and Power that brought them forth.
	fwccworld.org /kinds_of_friends/index.shtml (1141 words)

	Realignment Among North American Friends? by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
		The 1990-93 Triennium of Friends United Meeting (FUM) was marked by an energetic debate over a possible "realignment" among Friends and the fallout from that debate.
		Friends United Meeting commits itself to energize and equip Friends through the power of the Holy Spirit to gather people into fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved and obeyed as Teacher and Lord.
		At different times during the century, groups known as Conservative or Wilburite Friends withdrew from Orthodox yearly meetings and formed their own bodies seeking, as they saw it, to preserve the distinctive characteristics of Friends which they felt much of the Orthodox branch was losing.
	www.quakerinfo.com /quakalig.shtml (1621 words)

	Future of the Friends Church, a review by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
		The publisher calls it "a mini-course in evangelical Friends theology, Church history, and philosophy." The vast sweep of its intellectual coverage is to support his views regarding the future of evangelical Friends in the United States.
		By evangelical Friends, he means all Friends with an evangelical perspective both inside and outside of Evangelical Friends International.
		Punshon urges a strengthening of the Quaker roots of evangelical Friends, focusing on the nature of worship and the importance of Friends distinctives.
	www.quakerinfo.com /reashope.shtml (1197 words)

	Faith & Practice: Page 55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1965, the Evangelical Friends Alliance (now Evangelical Friends International) formed to draw together evangelical yearly meetings that place more emphasis on the Holy Spirit and the inspired rule of the Bible and less on the Light Within.
		These Friends place great emphasis on evangelical outreach; they are especially active in foreign missions in central Africa, Alaska, Bolivia, and China and are also active in peace work.
		Some of the distinctions among groups of Friends have lessened as the heat of past controversies has subsided, and Friends of all persuasions have discovered much in common through opportunities to join together in service.
	www.nyym.org /quakerism/fnp/55.shtml (414 words)

	Links
		International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, as one would expect of a group founded by a woman, challenges women to live-up to their Godly potential.
		The Evangelical Covenant Church ordains women, and has issued a an informative position paper on the role of women in ministry.
		Friends United Meeting believes in the equality of all, and that marriage is for mutual benefit.
	www.alabaster-jars.com /links.html (2047 words)

	Quaker branches
		Conservative Friends are sometimes called "Wilburites." These meetings adhere to unprogrammed worship, and some members continue to practice traditional "plainness" of dress and speech.
		Evangelical Friends are similar to other Evagelical Christian bodies, with a strong emphasis on the authority of Christian scripture.
		These Friends practice programmed worship and are more likely to call their congregation a "church" rather than a "meeting." They are active in missionary, evangelical and service work, and are generally affiliated with Evangelical Friends International.
	www.quakerinfo.org /quakerism/Branches.html (603 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Quaker Crossroads . May 25, 2001 \| PBS
		Evangelical Quakers favor a "programmed" style of worship, with sermons, hymns, a sanctuary and, in most cases, a pastor.
		While Evangelicals are growing, the number of liberal and un-programmed Quakers has grown little over the last century.
		Some liberal friends say they need to get the word out about who they are and what they do.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week439/cover.html (1090 words)

	Evangelical Friends Church Southwest
		Evangelical Friends Church Southwest names its allotted quota of delegates to the various Commissions of EFI North America and pays its allotted share of the EFI assessment.
		Evangelical Friends International is affiliated with the National Association of Evangelicals but is not a part of the National Council of Churches nor the World Council of Churches.
		Over 1,100 Evangelical Friends churches representing more than 140,000 Friends in 24 countries are actively carrying out this critical mission.
	www.efcsw.org /other_2.html (273 words)

	NWYM - Statement of Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Friends Church Extension Foundation is a charitable and religious corporation which secures funds by gift and loan, and lends these funds to constituent local and extension churches of Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church for construction purposes.
		Friends Youth is related to the Yearly Meeting under the Board of Education and Youth, three members of whom serve, with an appointed adviser and the general superintendent of the Yearly Meeting, on its Executive Committee.
		Friends Women's Missionary Fellowship promotes missions by sharing and distributing literature, by praying for the missionaries and encouraging their families, and by contributing financial support.
	www.nwfriends.org /FandP/fandp43.html (787 words)

	Friends Organizations and Their Statements of Beliefs
		Most Friends would agree that we "have no creed" in the sense of a verbal test of faith to which all must adhere.
		One of the three "umbrella" organizations of Friends in the U.S. "Friends United Meeting commits itself to energize and equip Friends through the power of the Holy Spirit to gather people into fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved and obeyed as Teacher and Lord."
		"...Friends and others who are influenced by the strains of Quaker thought that eschew literalism and celebrate the universality of inward religious experience."
	www.read-the-bible.org /orgbeliefs.html (663 words)

	Peninsula Evangelical Friends Church - Port Angeles,WA
		As Evangelical Friends We Believe in the authority of the Bible and in the historical aspects of the doctrine of salvation.
		Peninsula Evangelical Friends Church began as a ministry of the American Sunday School Union in 1935, meeting in the Agnew Community Hall until 1947.
		At that time, property was purchased which had buildings on it, and ont March 15, 1947, Agnew Friends Church was born with the goal of telling people of the Gospel of Christ.
	netministries.org /see/churches/ch01102 (939 words)

	Quaker Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In belief, some Friends place most emphasis on the teachings of Christian Scripture, while others give greater emphasis to the importance of the Inward Teacher ("that of God in everyone"), allowing for a wide range of religious perspectives.
		For many Friends (especially the unprogrammed, "liberal" branch) it is not important that we all have similar beliefs.
		Rather, it is participation in Friends community, the deep search for Divine Guidance, and the attempt to live faithfully in harmony with that Guidance that make a person a Quaker.
	www.mcwret.org /Quaker.htm (1468 words)

	Friends Journal: Facing Evil, Genocide in Darfur
		My friend Gina and my sister Madeline sit on the bench next to me. The three of us have recently learned the sign language alphabet in First-day school, and we use our new knowledge to painstakingly spell out messages to one another.
		Across the top it was labeled "The Society of Friends in North America, 1661–1989," and beneath that was a tangled, confusing mass of diverging and rejoining lines, making roughly the shape of a tree.
		But seeing it on the chart—seeing that Friends General Conference, which I had assumed included every yearly meeting in the country, was just one little cluster on one side of this very large piece of paper—gave the diversity of Friends a reality it had not had before in my mind.
	www.friendsjournal.org /contents/2005/1105/feature.html (4006 words)

	Barclay Press - Information Desk
		The reorganized Barclay Press is governed by a board of directors with broad geographic representation from evangelical Friends.
		Early Friends were called “publishers of truth.” This concern for effective communication continues as Barclay Press seeks to deliver publications that stimulate positive change in the life of the reader.
		Robert Barclay became a convinced Friend at eighteen years of age after visiting his father in prison and coming under the influence of a fellow prisoner, John Swinton, who was a Quaker.
	www.barclaypress.com /infodesk/aboutbp.html (422 words)

	Seventh Friends Ministers Conference
		Friends Ministers Conference will be both an event to remember and the start of the future-history of the Friends Church in North America.
		Scheduled for November 17-20 of 2006 there is ample time to plan for the financial expenditure, church calendar master planning, and even the possibility of extended family vacations in the San Antonio area.
		We believe the message of Christ as interpreted and applied by the Friends Church is very attractive to the emerging culture.
	www.friendsministers.org (297 words)

	Quaker -- Beliefnet.com
		One of the three major Friends organizations in the U.S. Holds 20 Yearly Meetings and smaller local meetings.
		One of the three major Friends groups in the U.S. Holds 14 yearly meetings and other local meetings, mostly in the Southeast, Northeast, and Central U.S. Evangelical Friends International
		Friends group with an emphasis on evangelical mission.
	www.beliefnet.com /index/index_10122.asp (339 words)

	FWCC Africa Section — Welcome
		Represents Friends from Burundi, Rwanda and Congo and aims to develop strong leadership among Friends in the region who are able to face the current challenges and those who are capable to make a difference for the glory of God.
		Although Friends United Meeting have been present in Kenya since 1902 they had not established an office in Africa.
		Uganda Yearly Meeting has applied to join the international organization and hope to start their own branch shortly.
	fwccafrica.org /Organizations/Organizations.html (296 words)

	Friends United Meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two other similar organizations within Quakerism, Friends General Conference and Evangelical Friends International; each of these three organizations represent different branches within Quakerism.
		During the 1950's many yearly meetings in North America reunited and became joint members of Five Years Meeting and Friends General Conference.
		In 1963 Five Years Meeting was renamed Friends United Meeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friends_United_Meeting (254 words)

	Quakerfinder for Isolated Friends: Introduction
		Friends General Conference (FGC) serves Friends and Friends meetings in the United States and Canada.
		Conservative meetings are found in Iowa and nearby states, Ohio, and North Carolina.
		Pastoral meetings not affilliated with FGC are identifed in the notes field as FUM (Friends United Meeting), where Christ is acknowledged as teacher and Lord, or Evangelical (Evangelical Friends International), where Christ is acknowledged as Lord and Savior.
	www.quakerfinder.org /isolated (460 words)

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	www.godhasadream.com /church/friends-church (729 words)

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