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Friends' Work in Africa

Saturday, May 15, 2021
1:00 pm2:30 pm

FMW Quaker Spiritual Development Program. Presenters: Shawn & Katrina McConaughey. By phone dial: (301) 715-8592. Enter meeting ID on prompt: 8744 1817 683#. The McConaughey’s will share an overview of their work among Friends in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania with additional information on emerging plans for sustainability of the programs and how the covid pandemic has impacted life and ministry in their part of the world. They will have photos to share and will leave time for questions and dialogue.

“Shawn and Katrina McConaughey are lifelong Friends from Oregon. Shawn has served in pastoral and yearly meeting leadership for the past 30 years; Katrina in volunteer ministry in church and with refugees and immigrants in her community, as well as ESL instruction and working on an organic vegetable farm. A few years ago, anticipating an empty nest, they began to look for opportunities to serve Friends overseas and were invited to work with Friends United Meeting in East Africa. For the last 3 years they have been living in Kenya and working as Programme Officers in the Africa Ministries Office. Their work focuses on the Project Partners of FUM and facilitating communication and relationships between Friends in North America and in East Africa.

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