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Alaska Friends Conference is supporting the Tribal Council of the Organized Village of Kake, AK by fundraising for the Native-led Kake Regional Cultural Healing Center in Southeast Alaska. The Kake Regional Cultural Healing Center will be a place for people to experience land-based healing for substance abuse, rooted in cultural practices and values. Click on the Headline to learn more.

(Photo is of the Friends Mission in Kake, Alaska, April 1905.  Photo courtesy of Alaska State Library Catalog Collection.  

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Posted by Jan Bronson on 11/04/2023 - 1:11am

Avis Wanda McClinton traveled with support from Alaska friends from Pennsylvania to present to our yearly meeting's Annual Sessions at Dickerson Friends Center. 

Together as we were gathered, we watched her interview with Friends Journal, available to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOhg1GQF7s

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Posted by Laura Herman on 08/06/2023 - 3:44pm

Friends are invited to join us for Annual Sessions 2023 of the Alaska Friends Conference, August 3-6, 2023.

Register here to participate (online and/or in person): https://forms.gle/nV1puY3Mxr7DdiVY7

Registration fee information listed below after the schedule. 

Thursday, August 3:

Afternoon: Arrival at Dickerson Center and Set up Camp

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Posted by Laura Herman on 08/04/2023 - 5:14pm

Alaska Friends Conference approved the language below at our Annual Sessions in August 2022. Below are PDFs of this same apology, with either footnotes or endnotes.

Photo credit: Jan Bronson of Anchorage and Cathy Walling of Fairbanks, representing the Alaska Friends Conference, apologize to Alaska Native communities for the boarding schools it ran in Alaska and the United States. The apology took place at Sayéik Gastineau elementary school in Juneau, the former site of a Quaker mission school, during Orange Shirt Day on Friday. (Photo by Lisa Phu/Alaska Beacon)

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Posted by Laura Herman on 10/27/2022 - 1:19am

Kenai River worship group meets weekly on Sundays, and formerly met at Kaladi before the location closed. They are still meeting in various parks and are looking for a new permanent location - contact Kim Keck for more information: Kimkeck [at] gmail.com or 907-953-5426.

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Posted by Laura Herman on 08/05/2022 - 5:37pm

AFC Commitment to Racial Justice

In every Alaska Friends Conference decision, Friends shall consider this query: "How does this decision move us toward our goal of becoming an actively antiracist community?”

AFC shall strive to increase financial and practical support for work for justice and social reform led by Black people, indigenous people and people of color.

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Posted by Laura Herman on 03/13/2022 - 3:48pm

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