Quaker Voluntary Service is part of a long history of Quaker action and witness in the world. We want to honor that legacy and help our young adults see and frame where they fit into this story. In this first of our Quaker Service Testimonies video series, Brigitte...
Nancy Wales Foster was born in 1914 and grew up in southwestern Ohio, on the farm where her Quaker ancestors had settled in 1810. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she returned to Ohio and began teaching in 1934. She spent several summers as an AFSC staff...
This gentle Quaker couple, Nan and Britt Pendergrast, helped create and sustain the News/Views publications which began in April, 1980. A group from Atlanta Friends Meeting, led by Dwight Ferguson and Nan Pendergrast, selected articles on peace, social justice and...
Courtney and Elizabeth Siceloff met in Sweden on a Quaker sponsored tour of Scandinavian cooperatives in 1949 and then continued to live their lives together in service. Their first service began in 1950 at the newly formed Penn Center on St. Helena Island in South...
Why do we tell stories of Quaker Service? QVS is part of a long stream of Quaker service, a “cloud of witnesses” who paved the way for young adults today. We honor and lift up the stories of those who have come before us, and have given of themselves to...
Elizabeth Hendricks “I was a long-time (50 years) member of Atlanta Friends Meeting, so I am especially pleased that the first Quaker Voluntary Service House has been established in Atlanta. QVS is continuing a long tradition of Quaker service. To support that...
