Preparing the Way…

Gretchen Castle writes on reunions and life in the FWCC World Office

Friends at the 6th World Gathering in Kenya in 2012. | Photo: Trish Carn.

Yesterday I found myself moved to tears, joined by Olivia Hewitt, the conference coordinator, for the upcoming Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) World Plenary Meeting in Peru. She had just returned from Peru, planning with our Local Arrangements Committee clerk, Noe Alangia, who is even more prone to what my husband fondly calls ‘leakage’. We just feel so privileged to be doing the work of bringing Friends together.

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