AWPS Newsletter – reflections on World Quaker Day 2020
Here is the link to the latest AWPS E newsletter and includes a link to the video of the World Quaker Day Webinar with staff from the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) Geneva.
Australia Yearly Meeting calls for applications for an AWPS visitor to their Yearly Meeting 2021
Invitation to Australia Yearly Meeting, July 2021 Australian Friends gather each year for their Yearly Meeting for Worship for Business. Also, for learning, sharing and living in Quaker community for a week. Each year we invite a Friend, known as our Visiting Friend, from the Asia-West Pacific Section of FWCC. The intention of the Friend’s [...]
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Sustainability Conference 22 February 2020
How does God call us to act? An Online Conference with Friends Worldwide The conference was organised and hosted by the FWCC World Office in London and over 300 Friends from all over the world participated by zoom. A group of Friends from Britain Yearly Meeting facilitated the conference, listened to the spoken ministry and [...]
FWCC Central Executive Committee 2019
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 [...]
Response from AWPS to terror attacks in Christchurch mosques
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 – [...]
An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life by Cho-Nyon Kim
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 [...]
AWPS Gathering Hong Kong September 12 – 16 2018
Gathering Epistle September 2018 Dear Friends, Greetings to Friends everywhere from a warm hilltop with magnificent views in Hong Kong. Between the 12thand 16thSeptember 2018, thirty-five Friends from the Section of the Asia West Pacific Region gathered on Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong. The group came together as a community, mindful of the great [...]
Peru Plenary Gathering
The FWCC World Plenary Meeting (International Representatives Meeting - IRM) was held in Pisac, Peru, from 19 to 27 January 2016. We joined other Friends from around the world and gathered with Friends from Peru and Bolivia for worship, fellowship, and strengthening our shared sense of living ministry as Quakers. This was a unique opportunity [...]