by Liz Nicholson | Jan 11, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies
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...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
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...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
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...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, Resources
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...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 7, 2017 | Equity, Resources
Denormalizing Whiteness for Racial Justice- click here for PDF Created by Genevieve Beck-Roe, AFSC Friends Relations Fellow, serving as a Quaker Voluntary Service Alumni Fellow, for use among Friends Introduction Demographically, Quakerism within the United States is...
