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Agate
Passage Friends Meeting
Travel Minute - Evan Welkin
7
May 2005
Friends,
We commend to you Evan Welkin. He is traveling on a project
commissioned by The Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund for Quaker Leadership.
He describes the project thusly: "I plan to travel from
Florida
to
Maine
up the Eastern seaboard visiting Quaker meetings. ... In the interest of
building a greater understanding between Quakers of all theological
persuasions, I would like to explore how regional cultural differences
affect the theological culture of individual monthly meetings. I
hope to find commonalities that transcend national generalities. As
a side project, I also plan to prepare a presentation comparing meeting
house architecture with theological beliefs by visiting a wide range of
Quaker meetings."
He is under our care as he makes this journey. He will be reporting
to us as well as the Pickett Fund. We are excited by his spiritual
growth and his growth in Quaker Leadership. He writes, "I would
like this trip to be an opportunity for me to learn and teach about common
spiritual threads that I am sure I will discover at diverse Monthly
Meetings."
Evan is a third generation Friend in the North Pacific Yearly
Meeting. Friends in this
Yearly Meeting, along with Intermountain Yearly Meeting and Pacific Yearly
Meeting, are sometimes called Western Independent Quakers.
Our heritage comes from Joel and Hannah Bean, and from their
granddaughter and her husband Anna and Howard Brinton.
As you may know, for many years Howard Brinton was Director of
Pendle Hill Conference and
Retreat
Center
near
Philadelphia
.
Come visit us when you are in the
Seattle
area. If you attend the
Friends General Conference Gathering of Friends at nearby
Pacific
Lutheran
University
on July 1 - 6, 2006, take a few more days to explore the Olympic
Peninsula, the San Juan Islands, the North Cascades, and the Columbia
River Gorge near
Portland
,
Oregon
. There are Friends to welcome
you.
In Friendship,
Michael
Moore, Clerk
360-779-2299
[email protected]
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