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What's New on the Site

• The Minutes of our 2011 yearly meeting sessions are now posted, in PDF format.
• "To Run Joyfully into the World" A poem by Elsie Standing Kuhn.
• Eighth Month, 2011: The Epistles, from our 2011 Yearly Meeting Sessions, to Friends everywhere, are now posted here as a PDF.
• Seventh Month, 2011: The new Faith and Practice, The Book of Discipline of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative), Religious Society of Friends was approved at Yearly Meeting sessions. The text, in a preliminary format can be read here as a PDF.

Upcoming Events

A note about traditional Quaker names for months and days of the week.

Seventh Month 1 through 7, 2012: FGC Gathering of Friends, Kingston, Rhode Island.
www.fgcquaker.org/gathering.

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Seventh Month 31 to Eighth Month 5, 2012: 135th Annual Sessions of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Scattergood Friends School, near West Branch, Iowa. More information will be available as the date approaches.

News and Announcements

The FWCC World Conference of Friends 2012 in Kenya just ended on 4/25, with the theme: Being Salt and Light - Friends living the Kingdom of God in a broken world. Follow this link to learn about the conference and see pictures from it.

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Read an excellent article by Deborah Fink in the Ames Tribune about taxes and war: Our Money, Our burden

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Job Opening: The American Friends Service Committee is looking for a regional director for their midwest office in Chicago. More information here.

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Ames Meeting has changed the start time for Meeting for Worship to 10:30 on First Day, effective Jan.1, 2012.

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Some interesting opportunities from Monteverde Friends School in Costa Rica. Students in grade 10-12 are invited to apply to attend. More information here. MFS is also seeking a Friend-in-Residence to serve in a volunteer capacity as Development Coordinator. Read more here.

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Here is an interesting article from Foulkeways, in Gwynedd, PA about three graduates of Scattergood School and how they helped improve the boy's dorm. Scattergood Dresser Project.