Virtual Quaker Fair
Welcome to Virtual Quaker Fair!
Please take your time perusing the 17 presentations here, many of which have websites, videos, slideshows, and more for you to explore at your own pace.
On Friday, July 24th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM , most of our presenters will be available in their own Zoom sessions -- standing by their virtual “tables” if you will -- ready to discuss their presentations. We invite you to come and go from these Zoom sessions, just as you would if we were in person. To join by internet, there is a link on each listing. To join by phone, dial (669) 900-6833 and use the Meeting ID/Password listed with each presentation.
| Barclay Press |
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Eric Muhr (he/him) |
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All books are 10% off at the North Pacific Yearly Meeting Book Table . |
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| Barclay Press will not be hosting a Zoom during Quaker Fair. |
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| Ben Lomond Quaker Center |
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| Way Will Open: Re-Imagining the Future of Quaker Center |
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Susan Wilson (she/her/hers) & Bob Fisher |
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2020 Quaker Center Program Schedule
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| Meeting ID: 835 9245 4226 Password: 40518 |
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| Center for Development in Central America |
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Becca Mohally-Renk (she/her) |
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The Center for Development in Central America (CDCA) works in Nicaragua with communities that live under the burden of poverty to enable them to improve the lives of their people and hopefully shed that burden. The CDCA’s goal is to work in partnership with communities and cooperatives to facilitate empowerment. This enables them to find their own solutions to the problems they identify and connects them with resources to solve their problems. The CDCA works in the areas of health care, education, sustainable agriculture and sustainable economic development.
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| Meeting ID: 818 5054 0097 Password: 876902 |
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| EarthLight Booksellers |
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Tom and Sandy Farley |
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We are a Quaker-based non-profit committed to Earthcare, Justice, & Peacemaking. We have developed a list of books by and about Quakers as well as recommendations for adults and children of books that reflect Quaker values. These books may be ordered online through our partner bookseller, Reach & Teach at the link below. |
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| Meeting ID: 898 4136 4698 Password: 488242 |
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| Friendly Water for the World |
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David Albert (he/him) |
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Friendly Water for the World is a northwest Quaker-founded knowledge-sharing and training organization, assisting communities around the global toward ensuring their own safe water and towards community self-sufficiency. |
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| Meeting ID: 828 9622 4312 Password: 647063 |
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| Friends Committee on National Legislation |
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FCNL Representatives & Bobby Trice, FCNL Quaker Engagement Associate |
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The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies Congress and the administration to advance peace, justice, opportunity, and environmental stewardship. Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL fields an expert team of lobbyists on Capitol Hill and works with a grassroots network of tens of thousands of people across the country to advance policies and priorities established by our governing General Committee. FCNL is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to live our values of integrity, simplicity, and peace as we build relationships across political divides to move policies forward. |
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| Meeting ID: 830 4948 4732 Password: 671753 |
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| Friends World Committee for Consultation |
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Elinor Jordan (she/her) & Lucy Fullerton |
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Answering God's call to universal love, Friends World Committee for Consultation brings Friends of varying traditions and cultural experiences together in worship, communications and consultation, to express our common heritage and our Quaker message to the world. |
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| Meeting ID: 863 0055 6647 Password: 984057 |
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| Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network |
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| Quakers and the International Climate Effort - An update for precarious times |
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Frank Granshaw (he/him) |
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Climate issues know no boundaries, meaning that to deal with them requires an international response. Faith groups such as Quakers play a critical role in forging a response based on justice, equity, and stewardship. This virtual poster showcases some of the ways Quakers engage in climate action and how you can take part in this action. |
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Multnomah Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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fgransha@gmail.com |
| Meeting ID: 830 0249 9849 Password: 934548 |
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| Kenya Health Education Ministry |
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Nora Percival (she/her) |
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Nora Percival’s ministry in Kenya to improve the lives of Kenyan Quakers and others, under the care of University Friends Meeting. |
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| Nora will not be hosting a Zoom session for Quaker Fair, but will be leading an interest group on this topic Thursday at 3:30 pm PDT. |
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| Outreach and Visitation Committee |
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Elee Hadley, Necia Quast, Joe Snyder, and Margaret Coahran |
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Encouraging travel and communication and spiritual growth within and between meetings, worship groups, and individuals within NPYM. Helping make Friends more visible in wider communities.
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| Meeting ID: 840 1053 5068 Password: 745686 |
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| Quaker Earthcare Witness |
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| Climate, Covid 19 and Environmental Justice |
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Shelley Tanenbaum (she/her/hers) |
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Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) is a network of the Religious Society of Friends in North America who are taking spirit-led action to address ecological and social crises from a spiritual perspective, emphasizing Quaker process and testimonies, including continuing revelation.
We are living in rapidly changing times, facing challenges of monumental proportion: a global pandemic, climate change and related ecological disasters, and institutional racism and violence. These challenges are connected and we cannot address any one of them without addressing all of them. Join us to explore what we can do. |
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| Meeting ID: 817 4199 8950 Password: 863958 |
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| Quaker Social Concerns Network |
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Jonathan Betz-Zall (he/him/his) |
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| Meeting ID: 864 4618 4528 Password: 425323 |
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| Quaker Voice on Washington Public Policy |
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Noah Martin & Susan Campbell |
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Quaker Voice continues in the centuries-old Quaker tradition of leading the struggle for human and civil rights in Washington state.. Quaker Voice focuses on issues such as criminal justice, that are not sufficiently addressed by other organizations, along with economic justice and environmental stewardship. |
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| Meeting ID: 814 0759 3702 Password: 955359 |
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| Quaker Voluntary Service |
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Jane Snyder (she/her/hers) and Janet Jump |
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Quaker Voluntary Service exists in Atlanta; Portland, OR; Philadelphia,; Boston; and Minneapolis. In most cases the volunteers (called Fellows) are recent graduates doing a year of service and living in Quaker Community, allied with local Quaker Meetings and Churches.
Here in Portland, Oregon, QVS Fellows live in Quaker community and work for a variety of social service agencies, and receive encouragement from Multnomah and Bridge City Meetings, as well as Redwood Friends Church and West Hills Friends Church. |
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| Meeting ID: 862 2801 7968 Password: 969828 |
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| Right Sharing of World Resources |
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Jackie Stillwell (she/her), Maggie Ellis (she/her), and Jonathan Brown (he/him/his) |
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Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is an independent Quaker not-for-profit organization sharing the abundance of God’s love by working for equity through partnerships around the world. RSWR gives grants to groups of marginalized women in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India to fund individual micro-enterprise projects. Right Sharing’s work is grounded in a sense of stewardship for the world’s material, human, and spiritual resources.
Image description: Quaker women gather outside of Shikulu Friends Church in Kakamega, Kenya. These members of the Vushitsyula Friends Women Group are RSWR partners who keep bees, raise poultry, and farm vegetables.
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| Meeting ID: 824 2468 7150 Password: 538206 |
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| Spiritual Deepening Group |
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Daniel Clark (he/they) & Eric Straatsma |
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For this year’s NPYM Quaker Fair, we invite you to talk with representatives of the Spiritual Deepening Group that was formed at the 2018 NPYM Annual Session. Since then, the group has been having weekly email check-ins, along with in-person sessions at the Annual Session and more recently monthly Zoom sessions. |
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| Meeting ID: 864 4238 5269 Password: 934548 |
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| Way of the Spirit |
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| Way of the Spirit: Now with Online Retreats from Quaker Spirituality |
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Christine Hall (she/her/hers) |
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Online Mini-series for 2020-2021. Stand-alone series of online retreats and learning from the wisdom of Quaker spirituality. An invitation to grow in your distinctive sense of God’s presence and inner guidance, with supportive companions for the journey. Series 1: Listen: Personal Spiritual Awareness and Discernment, Oct -Nov. Series 2: Forgive: Relationships in the Holy, Nov-Dec. See: https://goodnewsassoc.org/spirit/ |
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Way of the Spirit intro video (5 mins): https://youtu.be/_eoJpAG1gsM Way of the Spirit Invitation Video: https://youtu.be/5kZZBTUwTdU Way of the Spirit website: https://goodnewsassoc.org/spirit/ |
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| Meeting ID: 828 2177 2822 Password: 267764 |
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| Western Friend |
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Mary Klein (she/her/hers) |
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Western Friend is a nonprofit corporation that is jointly owned by North Pacific Yearly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting, and Intermountain Yearly Meeting. It provides media-production resources that now include a magazine, book publishing, a website, an eNewsletter, and videoconferencing services. Since our founding in 1929, Western Friend has continued to help Friends in the West to stay connected and to offer each other spiritual and practical support. Get an overview of what Western Friend has to offer by watching the first three minutes of the “video tour” below. Then watch the rest of the video for more details, explore our website, and come talk with us in person on Friday during the Quaker Faire! Let us know if you have an article you’d like to publish in Western Friend.
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Tour of the Western Friend Website
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| Meeting ID: 856 1742 3036 Password: 698570 |
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