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	Friends United Meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friends United Meeting (FUM) is an association of twenty-six yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean.
		In addintion there are several individual Monthly meetings and organizations that are members of FUM.
		Friends United Meeting was established in 1902 as the Five Years Meeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friends_United_Meeting (140 words)

	Friends General Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Friends General Conference (FGC) is a North American Quaker organization primarily serving the Quaker yearly and monthly meetings in the United States and Canada that choose to be members of FGC.
		Friends (Quakers) in FGC tend to be more socially and theologically liberal than Friends from other parts of Quakerism (and than the general US population).
		Friends General Conference is a Quaker organization in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends which primarily serves affiliated yearly and monthly meetings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friends_General_Conference (359 words)

	Friends United Meeting (Quakers)
		Friends United Meeting was organized in the United States in 1902 as a cooperative effort of "orthodox" yearly meetings (Quaker regional groupings) in North America to facilitate missions, evangelism, peace work and Christian education.
		Friends testify to the workings of God in everyone's lives and that God can be known, without the mediation of priests or ceremony, to everyone who seeks the divine presence.
		While eschewing creeds, many of the ten yearly meetings in the United States that are affiliated with Friends United Meeting include in their books of discipline the Richmond Declaration of Faith of 1887, which affirms a Trinitarian understanding of God, supported by scripture and the writings of early Friends.
	www.faithstreams.com /topics/members-and-partners/friends-united-meeting-quakers-.html (614 words)

	Friends United Meeting: About FUM - An Introduction
		At the dawn of the nineteenth century Friends in the United States were all concentrated in the narrow strip between the Appalachians and the Atlantic Ocean; by its conclusion they had spread over 3,000 miles from sea to shining sea.
		Friends abolished the laity and became a fellowship of ministers.
		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)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although the Meetings of Friends in England and America still grew, and their early sense of the world mission of 'Truth' remained, it became clear that 'the Children of Light' would not replace the Church of England.
		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)

	ipedia.com: Religious Society of Friends Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (the most important meeting in USA at the time) prohibited Quakers from owning slaves in 1776, and on February 11, 1790 the Society petitioned the United States Congress for the abolition of slavery.
		A meeting for business is considered a form of worship, and all decisions must be reached in a manner that satisfies all participants (called "unity" or "sense of the meeting", but sometimes inaccurately called consensus).
		The unprogrammed Quaker meeting is an expression of that group mysticism, where all the members of the meeting can together listen for the Spirit and, ideally (in what is called a "gathered meeting") build on what the others have said in developing themes and ideas.
	www.ipedia.com /religious_society_of_friends.html (2999 words)

	Patuxent Friends Quaker Meeting
		FUM clerk Brent McKinney then wrote that this FUM policy is to be applied to all staff and volunteer appointees of FUM.
		Friends’ concern for equality similarly requires us to object to the inequality inherent in the federal subsidy for homeowners through the federal tax code of $120 billion per year and growing, while federal subsidies to help low income families who cannot afford housing are $30 billion and shrinking.
		This change will better recognizing our meeting’s actual practice of conducting monthly meetings for business, the expressed need of member to identify and build their spiritual home in the place which is their place of worship, and the meeting’s desire to more fully and directly link to the greater Quaker community.
	www.patuxentfriends.org /minutes.htm (4675 words)

	FUM - Friends United Meeting
		FUM is still looking for a person to start a church in Belize City and/or La Democracia and looks toward the building of a much needed high school in the next few years.
		One of the urgent concerns of Friends United Meeting is the condition of the Kaimosi Hospital.
		Friends United Meeting is committed 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.
	www.bym-rsf.org /quakers/news/fum.shtml (2589 words)

	Friends United Meeting
		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.
		In 2002, Friends United Meeting Celebrates the centenary of its founding and its ministry in East Africa.
		The Ramallah Friends Schools have served the youth of Palestine and witnessed to Quaker values in the midst of conflict and adversity for more than a century.
	www.faithandvalues.com /channels/fum.asp (354 words)

	Friends Theological College - Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Friends Theological College (FTC) is an institution dedicated to the training of Friends pastors, as well as to the academic progress, personal development, and spiritual growth of its students.
		FTC is a ministry of Friends United Meeting.
		Friends Theological College is a ministry of Friends United Meeting.
	www.quaker.org /ftc (3001 words)

	Geometry.Net - Religion: Society Of Friends
		Extractions: This is the homepage of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers) in Britain.
		Eventually members of the Society of Friends became known as Quakers During the reign of Charles II, 13,562 were arrested and imprisoned in England and 198 were transported as slaves, and 338 died in prison or of wounds received in violent assaults on their meetings.
		Meetings are also committed to expressing 'Faith in action', where those who have deep concerns about the world can find support and sustenance in working towards improvements.
	www5.geometry.net /religion/society_of_friends.html (1974 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.
		He saw the presence of universalist Friends from the united yearly meetings in the basically Christ-centered FUM as being divisive and eroding FUM's effectiveness.
		These yearly meetings, with the addition of a yearly meeting that had been independent of the associations, coalesced into what is now Evangelical Friends International (EFI).
	www.quakerinfo.com /quakalig.shtml (1602 words)

	Adherents.com
		There are now 31,600 members and 505 meetings in the general conference, a fraction of which also belong to Friends United Meeting; this is explained by dual membership in Canada, New York and New England in the General Conference and in Friends United Meeting.
		With 58,357 members and 547 local meetings in 1987, this is the largest single Friends body in the U.S. Organized in 1902, it brought together in one cooperative relationship 18 yearly meetings at home and six abroad--in East Africa, Cuba, and Jamaica...
		Friends United Meeting which coordinates 14 yearly meetings and includes about 60,000 members in North America, and 140,000 worldwide.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_293.html (2967 words)

	EPISTLE REGARDING FRIENDS UNITED MEETING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Baltimore Yearly Meeting is deeply troubled by Minute 88-GB-52 of Friends United Meeting (FUM) General Board as applied in the Staff’s 1991 personnel manual.
		This policy effectively bars from staff and leadership positions those Friends who cannot sign, abide by and enforce a policy of discrimination against any person in a sexual relationship outside the bond of marriage, defined in the policy as between one man and one woman.
		We unite with FUM in affirming that all intimate relationships should be grounded in love, respect and discipline as a reflection of God’s love.
	www.oxfordfriends.org /FUM.html (415 words)

	Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
		Retha urged Friends to unite on FUM’s mission, and not to allow a log jam over this one concern to block the flow of the river.
		FUM’s work throughout the world is accomplished by the equivalent of only fifteen paid staff.
		Friends Theological College has grown to approximately seventy students and intends to achieve accreditation for a Bachelor of Arts degree within five years.
	www.pym.org /pm/more.php?id=3125_0_45_0_M (820 words)

	Quakers in Tucson, AZ: Pima Friends Meeting, (QuakerFinder.org)
		Quakers in Tucson, AZ: Pima Friends Meeting, (QuakerFinder.org)
		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 /quaker/near/AZ/Tucson/11958 (282 words)

	First Friends of Indianapolis - Our Meeting
		First Friends is a monthly meeting that is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
		Our meeting was established in 1856 and is one of the seven original churches in Indianapolis.
		This printable document is the second draft, which is to be presented for approval at the annual business sessions of Western Yearly Meeting in July, 2005.
	www.indyfriends.org /ffourmtg.html (403 words)

	WARSF
		The Western Association of the Religious Society of Friends (WARSF) is a vehicle to provide a structure through which Friends Meetings, Churches, or individuals may enjoy a relationship with Friends United Meeting.
		Annual meetings will be held to provide the entire membership with an opportunity to review the work of the Association, and to take any actions necessary for its continuing operation.
		When Friends Meetings, Churches, Worship Groups, or individuals wish to become participating members of the Association, and have familiarized themselves with the By-Laws, they may initiate the contact and submit an application to the Board of Oversight.
	www.firstfriendswhittier.org /warsf.html (395 words)

	Minutes of
		Friends Meeting would like to withhold its portion of the assessment made to Baltimore Yearly Meeting for the purpose of supporting the programs and activities of Friends United Meeting.
		Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run, is not in unity with Friends United Meeting (FUM) with respect to its policy toward gays and lesbians, specifically because it denies the universality of the light in every person.
		Baltimore Yearly Meeting representatives are nominated by the Nominating Committee and appointed by the Yearly Meeting for terms of three years, not all representatives being appointed in the same year.
	www.bym-rsf.org /minutes/IM_March_2004.htm (2485 words)

	Advance Report 2000 - Friends United Meeting Report
		Friends United Meeting is an association of Friends meetings and ministries in 11 countries.
		The Board and staff of Friends United Meeting work together with Friends at the local and regional levels to administer international and cross-cultural ministries and to provide consultative services, Friends books and curriculum, and resources for evangelism and spiritual renewal.
		Friends United Press published five new titles in 1999, two of which were co-published with Sessions Book Trust in York, England.
	www.iym.org /rpts_forms/AdvRptFUM.htm (1464 words)

	Sandy Spring Friends Meeting
		Sandy Spring Friends Meeting is a member of Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
		Through Baltimore Yearly Meeting we are members of Friends General Conference, Friends United Meeting, and Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas.
		Contributions toward the financial support of the Meeting properties and activities may be mailed to the Treasurer, Sandy Spring Friends Meeting, 17715 Meetinghouse Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860, or placed in the wooden box on the back shelf of the Meetinghouse.
	www.sandyspring.org (311 words)

	Evangelical Friends Resources
		Calendar of Friends' (Quaker) Yearly Meetings Bill Samuel maintains an electronic edition of the FWCC Calendar of Yearly Meetings (authorized by FWCC), with added Web addresses, e-mail addresses and more current information than can be made available in an annual publication.
		Friends United Meeting Friends United Meeting has now established a Web presence with considerable information on FUM programs and activities.
		Friends Council on Education The Friends Council on Education acts as an integrating force in Quaker education in an advisory and consultative capacity for Quaker nursery, elementary, and secondary schools in the United States and Canada.
	www.csrnet.org /reedwood/nwym.html (265 words)

	Untitled Document
		Implicit in our testimony on simplicity is the understanding that we will not take more than we need, particularly (and here we move into the testimony on justice) if it means depriving others, including future generations, of their basic needs.
		We call upon Friends to examine their own lives to see if their own patterns of consumption reflect self centeredness and greed rather than a concern for living harmoniously in the creation, that we might witness to the world that harmony.
		We call upon the nations of the world, and in particular our own governments, to enact laws and reach agreements which will protect the creation from the effects of human exploitation, greed, and carelessness.
	www.webofcreation.org /DenominationalStatements/friends.htm (285 words)

	Wider Circle of Friends -- Wilmington Yearly Meeting
		They base their work on the Friends belief in the value of every person and the power of love.
		is an international association of Friends Meetings and Churches, organized for more effective Christian ministry, outreach and evangelism of which we are grateful to support.
		Friends in Wilmington Yearly Meeting have participated with Friends of other Yearly Meetings in many of the disaster recovery projects of the Friends Disaster Service.
	www.wilmingtonyearlymeeting.org /wider.htm (274 words)

	My Experince With Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I realize that Rochester Friends Meeting is centered around the guidance of the Spirit, but it's not clear, and cannot be clear whether the Rochester Meeting is centered around the Spirit of Christ Jesus.
		This is the Friends that I identify with strongly.
		I was hoping that maybe somehow some of the Friends at Rochester Meeting might feel the same, and that I would feel comfortable in the Meeting, since I am open minded and essentially Universalist in my intellectual beliefs.
	www.frontiernet.net /~afvw/friends.htm (1415 words)

	Friends in Christ - Who We Are
		Friends in Christ is a small group of spiritual travelers.
		Friends in Christ was started by a few people who felt the call to this ministry.
		In the spring of 1999, Friends in Christ established an Advisory Committee.
	www.friendsinchrist.net /fic_who.shtml (685 words)

	Friends-Nairobi Minute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) representing 29 Yearly Meetings from eight countries meeting in Triennial Sessions of Friends United Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, are conscious of the absence of our Palestinian Quaker brothers and sisters.
		We call on member meetings and churches in FUM to demonstrate in a tangible way their love, accompaniment, and concern.
		We ask FUM to join with other Christian bodies, the Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the World Council of Churches, to find ways together to work for peace, justice, and reconciliation.
	www.quaker.org /agate-passage/friends_nairobi_minute.htm (322 words)

	warsfx
		It also permits those long associated with Friends United Meeting to enjoy an unbroken, continuing relationship with FUM.
		Berkeley Friends Church continues its affiliation with FUM as a member of WARSF.
		Berkeley Friends Church is connected to WCC thru the Westem Association of the Religious Society of Friends (WARSF).
	users.lmi.net /friends/warsfx.html (459 words)

	Quaker Links
		Friends General Conference - a nationwide organization primarily serving affiliated Yearly and Monthly Meetings in the unprogrammed tradition of the Religious Society of Friends
		Friends United Meeting - Friends United Meeting is a cooperative program of twenty-seven Friends Yearly Meetings in Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Kenya, and the United States.
		Friends Center Corporation - the home to the FFC office and other Quaker organizations is "Going Green".
	www.friendsfiduciary.org /Links1.htm (236 words)

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