You're getting the word out to younger Quakers on what's going on in Kenya, and in this I rejoice. Some of the best peacemakers there that I've personally known have been Young Friends.

I've also been very close to AGLI folks, like Dave Zarembka and Malesi Kinaro, and we've built some good networks of news-sharing here in the Midwest.

Copied below is what we've circulated among Illinois Yearly Meeting Friends, calling attention to the resources that are now linked to our home-page at: www.ilym.org.

I hope you can become familiar with, and recommend, those particular blogs -- which are not the usual self-indulgent ramblings, but rather are vital links to life-and-death information, with heartening reports of actual peacemaking and reconciliation and relief efforts happening right now. Not study groups, not white papers, not elaborate coalition building. Just concrete, informed, compassionate QUAKER ACTION. These efforts deserve all our support: prayer, financial, organizational, interpretation, ... be creative!
Love to all reading this, -DHF
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From: David Finke

Friends in IYM,

We are fortunate that our own Dawns - Dawn Amos and Dawn Rubbert -- have maintained direct connections with many in Kenya with whom they have partnered for service work.

They have been receiving first-hand information not only on what is developing there but also how we might participate usefully. There are half a million displaced people in need, but channels are now available through which we may send assistance.

AND, Dawn A has just modified the IYM homepage so that you can click to hers and to Mary Kay Rehard's blogs that are collecting these reports that are distinctly Quaker. These are marked "New!"

I urge you to use this particularly timely form of "Publishing Truth" and have a look and follow developments.

David Finke, clerk of Publications

Here it is: www.ilym.org