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What's New on the Site

• "To Run Joyfully into the World" A poem by Elsie Standing Kuhn.
• Eighth Month, 2011: The Epistles, from our 2011 Yearly Meeting Sessions, to Friends everywhere, are now posted here as a PDF.
• Seventh Month, 2011: The new Faith and Practice, The Book of Discipline of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative), Religious Society of Friends was approved at Yearly Meeting sessions. The text, in a preliminary format can be read here as a PDF.

Upcoming Events

A note about traditional Quaker names for months and days of the week.

Second Month (February), 23, Annual AFSC Potluck 12:00 noon Thursday at Friends House, 4211 Grand Ave, Des Moines. Stop by to sign up for what you plan to bring or email Jon Krieg at JKrieg@afsc.org.

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Third Month (March), 17-20, FCNL Spring Lobby Weekend. This weekend is a unique opportunity for people, particularly young people, to come to Washington, gain training in lobbying and policy issues, learn about FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation), and lobby your representatives and senators. Make a real impact on your legislators by visiting them in person. http://fcnl.org/slw/. Financial assistance may be available for young adult Friends. Contact the clerk if interested.

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Midyear meeting, Fourth Month 21-22, near Earlham, Iowa. Mark your calendar now for this opportunity to gather with other Friends and renew our faith. More details to come.

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Seventh Month 1 through 7, 2012: FGC Gathering of Friends, Kingston, Rhode Island.
www.fgcquaker.org/gathering.

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Seventh Month 31 to Eighth Month 5, 2012: 135th Annual Sessions of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Scattergood Friends School, near West Branch, Iowa. More information will be available as the date approaches.

News and Announcements

Sad news from Missourians Against the Death Penalty, an organization whose valuable work IYMC has long supported. Their statewide office in Kansas City was destroyed in a fire. For more information and ways to help, see their website: www.madpmo.org

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Ames Meeting has changed the start time for Meeting for Worship to 10:30 on First Day, effective Jan.1, 2012.

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Some interesting opportunities from Monteverde Friends School in Costa Rica. Students in grade 10-12 are invited to apply to attend. More information here. MFS is also seeking a Friend-in-Residence to serve in a volunteer capacity as Development Coordinator. Read more here.

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Here is an interesting article from Foulkeways, in Gwynedd, PA about three graduates of Scattergood School and how they helped improve the boy's dorm. Scattergood Dresser Project.

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Minutes of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), 133rd Annual Sessions, 2010, now available in PDF.

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Bear Creek Monthly Meeting's minute on climate change is on the FCNL website.

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Yahara Monthly Meeting's minute on climate change also on the FCNL website.