Quaker Practice
Our 'Testimonies'
Another descriptive saying of Friends is that “Quakerism is a way of life,” which is to suggest that the testimonies [listed at left] are the moral and ethical fruit of the inward leading of the Spirit. … Because the testimonies have a religious base they might also be called the Quaker “articles of faith,” but clearly for Friends it is faith that must be translated into action.
- wilmer a. cooper, as quoted in Faith and Practice
Some of our 'Leadings and Concerns'
by Eric Scott, La Jolla Meeting
Our meeting has recently provided some degree of material support to the following organizations:
- American Friends Service Committee
- Friends Committee on Legislation (California)
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Friends World Committee for Consultation
- Friends House Moscow
- Friends Journal
- Nonviolent Peace Force
- Peace Resource Center
- Pendle Hill
- Quaker Bolivia Link
- Quaker United Nations Office
- Western Friend
Individual Friends have also been led to be active with these organizations (this is certainly an incomplete list):
- Afghan Refugee Girls School (contact Stephanie Freeman)
- African Great Lakes Initiative
- Alternatives to Violence
- American Refugee Committee
- Amnesty International
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Doctors Without Borders
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Habitat for Humanity
- Heifer Project
- Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Peace Brigades International
- Peace through Pieces
- Project Yano - Youth and Nonmilitary
- Quaker Earthcare Witness
- Ramallah Friends School
- Right Sharing of World Resources
- San Diego Veterans for Peace
- UNICEF