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2020/01/09

퀘이커 서울모임 자유게시판 진보겸 History of Korean Quakers



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History of Korean Quakers




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1. History of Korean Quakers

By Bo-Kyom Jin

After the Korean War, some British and American Quakers came to
Korea for rehabilitation programs. After the overseas workers had left Korea, some of the Korean assistants of the programs held the first
Quaker Meeting in 1958 and some American Friends who worked at the international Cooperation Administration in Seoul supported
them. Meeting began with silent worship for thirty minutes, and
about an hour was given for study and fellowship.

FWCC encouraged Seoul Friends to build relationship with Japan
Yearly Meeting or with Honolulu MM and two of the Koreans
became Quakers whose membership belonged to Honolulu Meeting
in 1958. Historically, Japan and Korea have had a difficult
relationship since Korea was colonized and devastated by Japan. So it
was difficult for us to intervisit for some time. The same year, AFSC
energetically tried to bring some Koreans to the seminars and work
camps in Japan and Korean Friends began to participate in the
program. As the result of their visits, correspondence with Japanese
Friends began taking place. In 1961, FWCC began sponsoring some
visitors and Friends in residence in Korea and Seoul Friends
requested a direct and official relationship with FWCC. The Meeting
then had about thirty regular attenders and study programs were actively carried out and FWCC helped strengthen its links with
overseas Friends.

In 1964, with the help of overseas Friends, a meeting place for the
Seoul Friends was purchased after having had to change places of
worship ten times in 6 years.“Seoul Friends Meeting Monthly
Newsletter” was published in 1966. The Meeting decided to take up
the leper village in Tandong as its main service project. The visiting
Friends from Japan, USA, Australia and England, have strengthened
us very much.
Every Sunday, Bible study was led by Sok Hon Ham, who was a
widely recognized spiritual leader in Korea. In 1967, Seoul Meeting
became a Monthly Meeting under the care of the FWCC. The visit of
the Chairperson of FWCC, Douglas Steere and his wife Dorothy in
1967 and his public lecture at the YMCA with about one hundred
people in the audience meant a great deal in Quaker outreach. At the
same year, Sok Hon Ham left Korea for the USA to attend the
Greensboro Gathering and the tenth triennial meeting of FWCC.
After the meeting, he attended the Pacific Yearly Meeting, studied at
Pendle Hill and visited many Friends Meetings and Friends in the
United States and Japan. International Quaker contacts such as work
camps, travel and study abroad(at Pendle Hill or at Woodbrooke in
England), participation in Quaker conferences, an inter-visitation
program with Japanese Quakers, and numerous visiting friends
contributed greatly to nurturing Korean Friends during the 1970s and
1980s and are still an enriching experience to us.

In 1980, SMM was active having a study group, outreach activities
and raised a voice of conscience under the dictatorship of military
government. Under the leadership of Sok Hon Ham, Seoul MM
flourished with members and attenders at its height numbering close
to fifty. In 1988, a second floor was added to the meetinghouse to
meet the demand of the growing memberships. In 1990s, Seoul MM
went through a dark period after the demise of Sok Hon Ham.
Fortunately, since 2000, Seoul MM has revived some of its vitality.

2. State of the Meeting

Over the past year our number of members has decreased from 20 to
10. Some of the attenders are Americans who are married to Koreans In the past few years, a worshipping group began to meet regularly
and more than 10 F/friends continues to gather every week in Daejon
(a city 2 hours far from Seoul) They have established a vibrant,
worshipping and studying community. We used to have a retreat
annually but there were no retreats in 2007/8 because of the absence
of initiatives or the decrease of members. Vocal ministries are rare in
Seoul MM and sometimes I feel eager for vocal ministries in my
Meeting. In addition, the financial situation of SMM has gotten worse
mainly as monthly donations decreased.

Since 2007, AVP programs have been introduced by a Korean Friend
(Jonghee Lee) and co-facilitated by her and German Friends
(including Ute Caspers). Most of the participants were NGO activists.
A Direct Education workshop facilitated by George Leakey from the
USA was also held in Seoul last year.
We are planning a Korea version of Faith and Practice. I know you
have made your own Faith and Practice and hope that Australian
Friends will give some useful advice to us.

Last year we had quarterly gatherings named Family gatherings. The
intention is for us to invite our family members who are not Quakers
and sing together and share food and fellowship.

We have an annual gathering (business meeting and fellowship)

3. Committee activities

We have Peace Service committee, Learning committee, Outreach
committee, library and website committee, Facilities care committee,
Finance committee. Our committees are not fully functioning partly
due to shortage of manpower but we are thankful that we could
maintain this Meeting and carried out some service activities.
From the beginning of the Korean Quaker history, service work was
emphasized. As a first step, medicines were supplied to two
Tuberculosis patients beginning in 1961 for two years. Work camps
for orphans and the blind, In 1964, a house for leper patients was
built. Emergency food was supplied in 1960s. In 2003, the Meeting
participated in an anti Iraq War demonstration and actively raised
funds to help anti Iraq War activists’ organizations. The meeting now
supports Foreign Migrant Workers Center , Ssi-Al Women’s Center,
and the Anti-Mine Association. Since the Korean War, landmines that were buried during the war have become a threat to civilians but
those victims haven’t been cared enough by Korean government.
Our program consists of Business Meeting every 1st Sunday; George
Fox Journal reading 2nd Sunday; Pendle Hill pamphlet discussion
group every 3rd Sunday; Bible reading group every 4th Sunday.

4. Children in the Meeting

Child care issues emerged again during the 2008 annual meeting. At
present, a few children attend the Meeting irregularly and SMM is
going to assign F/fs to take care of them during the worship in case
children come.

5. International Contacts

Sister Meetings : 
Canberra/Australia, Kapiti/ New Zealand, JYM

Hosted 2005 AWPS Section Gathering. 

Korean Friends have
attended international Friends gatherings including Bhopal, India
gathering and Auckland and Dublin Triennials.

Epilogue :In December 2008, Seoul Friends had their annual meeting
to review the past year and to think about and plan 2009. 
We are thankful that we could maintain this tiny meeting and that our
worshiping group is getting more active.



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2020/01/05

02 The search goes on-INSIDE- Tom Coyner and the Religious Society of Friends



The search goes on-INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily

The search goes on
Tom Coyner and the Religious Society of Friends bring pacifism to the forefront of activism

May 10,2002


Amid a cluster of rustic buildings in Daehyeon-dong, behind Ewha Womans University, sits a small, two-story redbrick house surrounded by poplar trees.

In a large room on the second floor of the house about 15 people have gathered in a circle this recent Sunday morning. They are meditating, some with their eyes almost closed in deep thought, others reading the Bible, gently turning to pages so as not to disturb the silence.

In the stillness, only the slight hum of bees moving in and out of the open windows can be heard. In the middle of the table, a small candle burns -- to give a feeling of unadorned holiness.

This is a meeting of Quakers, the Religious Society of Friends, in Korea.

The worship service starts each Sunday at 11 a.m. The first hour is spent meditating, and the next half hour is for sharing stories, ranging from everyday activities of the past week to epiphanies and revelations. The meditations are a way of improving "spiritual strength and will," in the words of one member. 

The clerk of the service, who acts as sort of an emcee, begins the sharing session by introducing new joiners, one, and old timers, two, back after a long absence. The group takes turns discussing topics such as the recently held Jeju Peace Forum, last week's service and how to improve the welfare of foreign workers in Korea. The services are held in Korean, but bilingual members are able to translate.

Most of the attendees are involved in social work, either professionally or part-time. One is a member of Korea's anti-landmine civic group, another a feminist theologian who works at Ssi-al Women's Peace Foundation. There's a professor at Sungkonghoe University who lectures about nongovernmental organizations, and a theology student who is one of the founders of Nonviolence Peace Force in Korea.

Quakers are known for their dedication to community service, and this group is no different. "It's a chicken-or-the-egg question," says Tom Coyner, a 50ish businessman and former Peace Corps volunteer in Korea. "Did these people become social activists as a result of Quakerism or did their vocation induce them to be interested in Quakerism? Maybe both." He shrugs.

It's the fifth meeting for Aaron Ricker-Parks, an English language teacher from Canada who now lives in Daejeon. Chance brought him here. "I was surfing the Net one day and came upon writings about and by Ham Seok-hun," he says, "and I realized we shared the same views."

Ham Seok-hun is the most famous Quaker in Korea. A tireless advocate of the nonviolence movement and spiritual leader during much of Korea's struggle toward political democratization, Mr. Ham was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and has been called "the Ghandi of Korea."

Mr. Ham was one of the first Koreans to take up with the Quakers. He came to his first meeting in 1961 and became a member in 1967. He was a strong personality, and after his death in 1989, the Quakers lost many of their members who were dedicated to Mr. Ham. It took 10 years for the group to rebuild to its current membership level.

For many in Korea, Quakerism equals Ham Seok-hun due to his strong presence in the community. But Kim Hyeong-rul, the Quakers' clerk, says, "we are much, much more than mere followers of Ham. Most of us are committed members of civic groups, who like to get together and meditate."

The Religious Society of Friends began in 1660 in Britain, founded by George Fox as a reaction against the religious turmoil and violence of the times. The society is opposed to hierarchies and emphasizes the individual's relationship with God, that each individual should search for "the light within." In addition, Quakers staunchly advocate nonviolence as a means of social change.

The first Quakers on the peninsula came right after the Korean War to give medical aid. They created a formal group in 1958 with about a score of attendees. In the 1960s and '70s, due to Mr. Ham's influence, the membership doubled, but these days it's about 20.

Tom Coyner first attended a Quaker service when he was a senior at the University of Colorado, but grew away from the ideas as an adult, dabbling in other religions. A friend who served in the Peace Corps in Biafra, Nigeria, encouraged him to join the Peace Corps to gain "enriching human experience." Mr. Coyner ended up in Korea in 1975. He served as a volunteer teaching English in middle schools in Eumseong and Okcheon, Chungcheong province. After four years of living in Korea, he went back to the States with his Korean wife, worked in a computer software company and earned a master's in business administration from the University of Southern California. In 1990 he was posted to Japan to work at various software companies before becoming sales manager of the Korea office of ACI Worldwide in 2000. They have two teenage sons.

Born in a Presbyterian household with Irish roots (and a dab of Roman Catholicism), Mr. Coyner says it was his desire "to move from institutionalized religion to a more primitive one" that compelled him to commit to the Quaker faith. He adds, "In Quakerism, we do not call it 'conversion,' but rather 'conviction.'" He became a "regular" Quaker four years ago in Tokyo. His wife Yeri was born a Roman Catholic and practiced Buddhism in her youth, but tagged along willingly.

Professor Park Sung-joon is also a regular member. He is the husband of Han Myeong-sook, the Minister of Gender Equality. Mr. Park works with Mr. Coyner every Tuesday teaching English to civic group activists. Mr. Park says, "Tom is perhaps a genuine example of harmonizing the spiritual world with the secular world of business. He knows how to apply the theme of peace into the practicalities of business. And when we teach English, he uses works by Ham as the main text, dealing with pacifism ideology."
When mediating, Mr. Coyner says, "I recite the Lord's Prayer very very slowly, then I try hard to shut out the monkey chatter, and then experience God by listening to the faint sound of my inner voice." When asked if he hears an actual spoken sound, he says, "on rare times I do, but mostly it's dialogue that goes on in my head." What makes him committed to this group? "It's the peace of mind, the tranquility of being able to hear myself think that makes it so interesting."

by Jieho Choi
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2020/01/04

Kinds of Friends – Friends World Committee for Consultation



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The Religious Society of Friends is a Christian body formed by George Fox and his followers in the mid-17th century in England. It spread rapidly through the British Isles, Europe and North America.

In the 19th century in North America, Friends split into separate factions, generally over issues of authority and form of worship. While some Friends viewed the Bible as the inalienable Word of God, others believed that Scripture was inspired by the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit guides faithful readers in interpreting the Scriptures. Most Friends, today, fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum.



Quaker involvement in business and worldly civil society led to other splits. For instance, Conservative groups originated from the concern that the witness of early Friends—who famously lived in the world, but were not of the world—was diluted and diverted from its purpose. Many Conservatives have felt that without the discipline to retain some separation from the world, Quakerism risks having its silent form of worship mistaken for complicity in the injustice of the world.

These questions continue to live as part of Quaker conversation and reflection, within and between meetings and churches. FWCC is the organization that provides the forum for Friends of different worship traditions and cultures to interact with one another.

Profiles of Various “Flavours”

The following descriptions are of some of the main Quaker traditions. They have been composed from contributions by various Yearly Meetings and by the umbrella organisation, Friends United Meeting.

Programmed tradition: Friends United Meeting

Friends United Meeting External link (FUM) grows out of the evangelical expression of the Quaker Movement. We embrace both pastoral and unprogrammed Friends Meetings and are deeply influenced by the fact that our largest population centre is in eastern Africa, followed by the United States of America. We have 27 member yearly meetings.

FUM is a Christian movement. We anticipate that continuing revelation will be consistent with the Scriptures, because the Holy Spirit is the source of both. Where worship centres on Christ and involves a listening spirituality, we believe those involved will begin to reflect the character of Jesus—bearing testimony to peace, simplicity, equality, moral purity, and integrity. The global community of the Church is an important part of this testimony. Knowing that God has already placed a witness (the Light of Christ within everyone), it is our joy to share the love of God and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit with others.

FUM is also a cooperative programme of our member yearly meetings. Our purpose is “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.” Our priorities are evangelism, global partnership, leadership training and communication.

Evangelical Friends in North America: From Northwest Yearly Meeting

Evangelical Friends in North America are a collection of five Yearly Meetings mostly comprised of programmed and semi-programmed churches. These Friends emphasize the divinity of Jesus Christ and focus on encouraging people to personally know and follow Christ in complete obedience to the teachings found in Scripture and to the leading of God’s Spirit.

Across these five Yearly Meetings, some emphasize historic Friends testimonies more than others. Those that do see the work of peacemaking, social justice, simplicity, etc., as central to their Christian faith. All are active in local outreach/evangelism and cross-cultural mission efforts. Most EFCI (Evangelical Friends Church International) External link local churches are served by men or women in pastoral ministry—some full-time, others bi-vocationally, and a few as volunteers.

Worship in the Conservative tradition: Ohio Yearly Meeting

The personal, immediate, continuing experience of Jesus Christ speaking to their specific condition is the beginning and end of Ohio Yearly Meeting External link Friends’ discipline and life. The hour of worship is His to program as He sees it: our task—to respond in worship—does not depend on any one appointed person, but on Christ’s loving ministry in our midst. We gather in awed expectation for Christ to speak to our corporate condition, and His Spirit, in the silence or through free gospel ministry and anointed prayer, inspires and guides us as His body, not just as so many individuals. We believe that as we individually and communally look humbly to Him, our spirits will be washed, prepared and fed in a measure proportional to our obedience.
Conservative Friends believe that Jesus Christ is the Word of God. Conservative Friends believe and experience that this Living Word is to be sought and experienced within us.
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.
Conservative Friends practice waiting worship in which we gather together to wait upon and hear the Word of God, responding to it when called upon in vocal ministry and prayer.
Conservative Friends seek to live their lives in relationship with God, in which we yield ourselves to Him in obedience. In this relationship we are to love God and others about us.

Unprogrammed or Liberal Friends

From Philadelphia Yearly Meeting:

The Light Within is the fundamental and immediate experience for Friends. It is that which guides each of us in our everyday lives and brings us together as a community of faith. It is, most importantly, our direct and unmediated experience of the Divine. Friends have used many different terms or phrases to designate the source and inner certainty of our faith—a faith which we have gained by direct experience . . . George Fox refers in his Journal to “that Inward Light, Spirit, and Grace by which all might know their salvation” and to “that Divine Spirit which would lead them into all truth.” He wrote: “There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition” and encouraged Friends “to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.” Many Friends interpret “that of God” as another designation for the Light Within.

Our worship is the search for communion with God and the offering of ourselves—body and soul—for the doing of God’s will. The sense of worship can be experienced in the awe we feel in the silence of a meeting for worship or in the awareness of our profound connectedness to nature and its power. In worship we know repentance and forgiveness in the acknowledgment of God as the ultimate source of our being and the serenity of accepting God’s will.

Visit Friends General Conference External link for more on unprogrammed Friends.

World Distribution of Friends by “Flavour”
Programmed Friends

There are Programmed friends in Belize, Cuba, El Salvador, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, and USA.

Evangelical Friends

There are Evangelical Friends in Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Taiwan and USA.
Conservative Friends

There are Conservative Friends in the USA, United Kingdom, and Greece.

Unprogrammed Friends

There are Unprogrammed Friends in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Congo, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
Links to Other Descriptions of Friends
Friends United Meeting External link
Evangelical Friends Church International External link
Friends General Conference (unprogrammed) External link
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The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is a Quaker organisation that works to communicate between all parts of Quakerism. FWCC's world headquarters is in London.[1] It has General Consultative NGO status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations[2] since 2002.[3] FWCC shares responsibility for the Quaker UN Office in Geneva and New York City[4] with the American Friends Service Committee[5] and Britain Yearly Meeting.[6]
FWCC was set up at the 1937 Second World Conference of Friends in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, US,
"to act in a consultative capacity to promote better understanding among Friends the world over, particularly by the encouragement of joint conferences and intervisitation, the collection and circulation of information about Quaker literature and other activities directed towards that end."[7]
Between representativw meetings, governance is carried out by a Central Executive Committee of 17 members from around the world, which meets annually in a different part of the world.[8] The current General Secretary is Gretchen Castle, who is also Chairperson for the Conference of Secretaries of World Christian Communions, the first woman to hold this office.

Structure[edit]

FWCC General Secretary Gretchen Castle with Pope Francis.
FWCC has four sections in addition to the world office in London:[9]

Africa Section[edit]

Africa Section represents Friends throughout the continent of Africa. Most African Friends are from the evangelical and programmed traditions. However, a significant minority are from the unprogrammed tradition. South Africa Yearly Meeting is principally an unprogrammed Yearly Meeting and there are unprogrammed Meetings elsewhere in Africa, notably in Kenya. Africa Section is numerically the most numerous of the Sections and the administrative headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya. The 2012 Friends World Conference was held in Kenya.

Asia West Pacific Section[edit]

Asia West Pacific Section (AWPS) is geographically the largest FWCC Section stretching from Japan in the north to New Zealand and Australia in the south and from the Philippines in the east to India in the west. Asia West Pacific Section is growing significantly and recently welcomed into Membership the Philippine Evangelical Friends Church, a Filipino programmed and evangelical Friends Meeting; Marble Rock Friends and Mahoba Yearly Meeting in India. Some AWPS Friends Meetings are numerically small, e.g. those in Korea and Hong Kong but nonetheless give generously to Friends work internationally and contribute a lot to the life of Friends. Other Friends Meetings in the Section are relatively large with several thousand Friends. The geographical area of the AWPS region includes numerically large Friends Meetings of the evangelical programmed tradition which have not as yet affiliated with FWCC, although friendly relations are maintained locally.

Europe and Middle East Section[edit]

Europe and Middle East Section (EMES) is numerically the smallest of the Quaker Sections but historically the oldest and is growing in former Eastern Bloc countries, though declining in so-called Western Europe countries. EMES includes Britain Yearly Meeting, the mother Meeting of Friends, being the heir to the former London Yearly Meeting. Britain Yearly Meeting's "Faith and Practice" or book of discipline is used by many Friends around the world as a guide to Friends' practices and procedures. Britain Yearly Meeting is the largest Meeting in the Section with approximately 16,000 Members, followed by Ireland Yearly Meeting with around 1,000 Members. Other Yearly Meetings in Europe are small, in some cases smaller than Monthly Meetings in Asia but retain the name and form of Yearly Meetings for historical reasons.
Friends have a long-standing presence in the Middle East and the Palestine, dating back to Ottoman times. For example, Friends School, Ramallah, is a noted educational centre and Friends are active in attempts to build peace at the grass roots in this troubled area. Britain Yearly Meeting's Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) is one of the significant international Friends agencies. The FWCC Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva is partly supported by Britain Yearly Meeting. Friends presence at the United Nations has engaged and continues to engage in much quiet diplomacy to reduce violence and build peace around the world. Friends House in Geneva is a quiet haven in a busy international city and hosts Geneva Meeting.

Section of the Americas[edit]

Section of the Americas is numerically the second largest section and includes Friends from all Friends traditions in both North and South America as well as in the Caribbean and Central America. Section of the Americas is officially bi-lingual in Spanish and English, though Canada Yearly Meeting also operates in both English and French. FWCC's other QUNO branch is located adjacent to the New York UN Building and is closely connected with the quasi-Quaker organisation American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). AFSC was founded by Friends and still has a substantially Friends Board of Trustees, however, only the Director of AFSC is required to be a Friend and the vast majority of AFSC staff, including senior staff, are not Friends and are not familiar with Friends worship or testimonies leading to some Friends' Meetings distancing themselves from AFSC and its activities. In 1947 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Friends for 300 years of work for peace and received on behalf of Friends by AFSC and its London counterpart, the Friends Service Committee, now known as Quaker Peace and Social Witness. Approximately 160,000 Friends live in the USA and some 300,000 live in Latin America. US Friends are often relatively affluent whereas many Latin American Friends come from relatively impoverished and oppressed indigenous communities. As in Asia and Africa, in Latin America, Friends are a growing church. Section of the Americas Friends have a long history dating back to the mid-17th Century. Friends founded or helped found a number of the US States, notably Pennsylvania, named after distinguished 17th Century English Friend, William Penn; Rhode Island; New Jersey and Delaware all had substantial Friends' contributions in their founding. William Penn's constitutional documents for Pennsylvania formed an important and influential source for the later United States Constitution.[10] In the early colonial period Friends were persecuted in Massachusetts and New York. Friends also had a substantial impact in the early days of colonisation of the Caribbean, for example in the 17th century and early 18th century 25% of the population of Barbados was Friends. The history of suffering is a uniting factor with Latin American Friends, many of whom live in difficult circumstances and find living the transformative Peace Testimony a daily commitment.
It is difficult to speak about American Friends as a whole because they represent such a broad and diverse range of Friends traditions, however, it is a tribute to their commitment to Friends beliefs that they respect each other and work together.

FWCC triennials, conferences and international representatives meetings[edit]

Friends at the 2016 FWCC Plenary Meeting in Pisac, Peru.
The first World Conference of Friends was held in the U.K. in 1920 and the second, at which FWCC was founded, took place in Pennsylvania in 1937. The third was held in Oxford, U.K. in 1952 and the fourth in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. in 1967. In 1991, the Fifth World Conference was held on three sites in The Netherlands, Honduras and Kenya. The sixth World Conference was held near Nakuru in Kenya in 2012.
Between the World Conferences, Triennial meetings of representatives were held up to 2007, when it was decided that there should be longer gaps between these meetings, in part due to environmental concerns.
In future Plenary Meetings will be held every six to eight years and called International Representatives Meetings. The first of these was held in Peru in January 2016, and the next is planned for South Africa in 2023.[11]

LocationDateTheme
Mexico1985Profundizar Más = Digging deeper.[12]
New Mexico, USAAugust 1994On being publishers of truth [13]
Birmingham, EnglandJuly 1997Answering the love of God : living our testimonies.[14]
New Hampshire, USAJuly 2000“Friends: A People Called to Listen, Gathered to Seek, Sent Forth to Serve”
Aotearoa/New ZealandJanuary 2004“Being Faithful Witnesses: Serving God in a Changing World”.
Dublin, Ireland11–19 August 2007“Finding the Prophetic Voice for our Time”.[15]
Nakuru, Kenya17–25 April 2012“Being salt and Light: Friends living the Kingdom of God in a broken world”.[16]
Pisac, Peru19–27 January 2016“Living the Transformation: Creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the Children of God”.[17]
South Africa2023TBC

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FWCC World office homepage". Fwccworld.org. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  2. ^ "ECOSOC database of NGOs". Un.org. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  3. ^ "United Nations Civil Society Participation (iCSO) – Friends World Committee for Consultation". esango.un.org. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  4. ^ "QUNO website". Quno.org. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  5. ^ QUNO Governance in New York Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "QUNO Governance in Geneva". Quno.org. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  7. ^ "WIDER QUAKER WORLD | Ottawa Monthly Meeting". ottawa.quaker.ca. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  8. ^ "FWCC Governance".
  9. ^ "Contact | Friends World Committee for Consultation". www.fwccafrica.org. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Frame Of Government Of Pennsylvania". Avalon Project.org. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  11. ^ "Website for World Plenary Meeting 2016". Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  12. ^ Profundizar Más : ensayos para ayudar a los Amigos, y a las Juntas de los Amigos, a prepararse para la 16a asamblea Trienal del Comité Consultivo Mundial de los Amigos = Digging deeper : papers to assist Friends and Meetings prepare for the 16th Triennial Meeting of the FWCC]]. – Mexico : Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1985.
  13. ^ On being publishers of truth : a discussion guide in preparation for the 18th Triennial Meeting of FWCC ... 1994 / prepared by Gordon M. Browne Jr. and Heather Moir. – London : Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1994
  14. ^ Answering the love of God : living our testimonies : [documents, etc. from the] 19th Triennial Meeting, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Westhill College, Birmingham, England, 23–31 July 1997
  15. ^ Website for Triennial 2007 Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine and official Blog.
  16. ^ "Welcome to the World Conference website | World Conference of Friends 2012". Saltandlight2012.org. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  17. ^ "Website for World Plenary Meeting 2016". Retrieved 10 February 2016.

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