Friends Women
Friends Women coordinates women’s groups in the individual churches of the yearly meeting area. Projects include the support of a missionary family on a foreign field and partial support of a family in Northwest Yearly Meeting involved in church planting. It also serves as an information link with the work of Evangelical Friends International. Groups within individual churches also have service projects in their local areas, as well as holding fellowship and support meetings.
GOALS
- To provide Christian fellowship.
- To provide support through prayer and monetary support to home and foreign missionaries.
- To provide service and support in our local churches.
- Dues per member: $20.00
- Send to: Susan Hampton
- Quaker Waggins subscription: $5.00 per year
- Send to: Reta Stuart
Officers for 2007-2008
President: Marie Cammack
Executive Vice President: Denise Gilbert
Secretary: Linda Giesbers
Treasurer: Susan Hampton
Literature Chairman: Dot Taffin
Project: Mildred Powell
Quaker Waggins Editor: Reta Stuart
Retreat: Jerri Johnson and Karla Allen
Yearly Meeting Friends Women Banquet: Rachel Vanden Hoek
Boise/Greenleaf Area Vice President: Edith White
Newberg Area Vice President: Gertrude Ankeny
Portland Area Vice President: Lois Phillips
Salem Area Vice President: Connie Barnett
Southern Oregon Area Vice Presidents: Doris Walker and Earlene Schlosser
SW Washington Area Vice President: Evelyn Myers
Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Women
Projects for 2007 – 2008
BUTAN – Sound System for Youth $ 300.00
BOLIVIA – Thomas - Scholarships: (BEU/post-graduate) 1,000.00
NEPAL – Adhikary: Tracts, Books, Bibles 575.00
Valal: Children’s Ministries 500.00
Retnaraz: Community Health Evangelism Training
(1 session of 4) 650.00
NORTH AFRICA – Kelley: Faith’s education 500.00
Betty’s Quilt Ministry 500.00
RUSSIA - Neifert: Children’s education 1,000.00
NEPAL – Women’s Ministries Jeep 3,000.00
BURUNDI – Kibimba Hospital 1,000.00
Gitega Quilters 500.00
Total $9,525.00