Part 1 – making Friendly Connections was published in the April2019 Newsletter When Friends in the Asia-West Pacific Section spend time together – in person and online – how do we maintain and strengthen those friendships? 1. We organise and attend events that support and encourage each other: When I was asked to write about [...]
Central Executive Committee (CEC), Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Toronto, Canada. June 2019 Report by Ronis Chapman, Asia West Pacific Section Secretary. FWCC is registered as a charity in the U.K. and the Board of Trustees of the charity is made up of Friends from around the world. In the Quaker world the Board is [...]
When I was asked to write about how I have been affected by FWCC related activities, I was puzzled. What could I say? I haven't travelled with FWCC, I haven't served on any committees, I have been pretty much focused on my local Canberra Meeting. Yet it soon struck me that my horizons have been [...]
David Purnell, former Clerk of FWCC and former convener of the AWPS Nominations Committee, is a member of Canberra Friends Meeting, Australia. He spoke recently at the 30th anniversary dinner to celebrate the mediation service he helped set up in Canberra. This is a summary of his talk. The impetus for our service was [...]
Yearly Meeting Clerk Aotearoa/New Zealand Dear Lesley Young I am writing on behalf of the Asia West Pacific Section of FWCC to express our deep sadness and our support for Friends in Aotearoa/New Zealand at this very tragic time. We have heard about the deaths of people who were praying in Mosques in Christchurch – [...]
Australian Yearly Meeting 2018 Backhouse Lecture An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life by Cho-Nyon Kim Cho-Nyon Kim is a member of the Daejon, South Korea, Quaker Monthly Meeting. In this lecture he explores his spiritual journey in the Korean religious environment, in which Confucianism, Buddhism. Taoism and Christianity have all [...]
Thank You and Farewell - 4 November 2018 Dear Friends, We have just finished our amazing eight-week FWCC AWPS Quaker journey among you and want to tell you how enriched we have been by the whole experience. It all started in Hong Kong where 35 Friends from throughout the Asia West Pacific countries gathered for [...]
We are at Friends Girls School in Tokyo, founded in the same years as Friends School, Hobart. We are spending most of our time with the English teachers who are ex-pats: American and Irish. Grammatical English is mostly taught by Japanese-speaking teachers; with the ex-pats teaching conversational English. The school has a lovely atmosphere. Everyone [...]
Notes from the Road Michael Wajda and Alison Levie are from Goshen Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia YM We are in the midst of a two-month journey among Friends in Australia and New Zealand under the auspices of the Asia West Pacific Section of FWCC. So far, we have visited eleven Quaker groups throughout Australia. (A list [...]
contributed by Anna Baker Anna lives in Birmingham, England and is a member of Selly Oak Quaker meeting. However she has family in Canberra and visits often and is getting to know Canberra Quakers. […]