The religious and spiritual challenge

Many have challenged us young Quakers this week.
All four of the speakers (Deborah Saunders,
Ute Caspers, Oliver Kisaka Simayu, and Colin
Saxton) have urged us to go out into the world
and live the lives of activist Quakers and
travelling ministers. Benny (from Cuba YM)
and several others have challenged us to visit
and stay with Quakers from other yearly meetings
around the world to learn more about their practices
and beliefs and to help us become both closer to
each other as Quakers and closer to God. To have a
better understanding of each other we must interact
on a regular basis with international Friends from
every corner of the world. We must visit and attend
the monthly meetings, yearly meetings and evangelical
Friends churches to acheive this goal, to attain a
oneness and unification among us and through us. When we
all depart, we are urged to stay connected to each
other through these intervisitations and exchanges.
Twinning (having two yearly meetings connecting to
each other, similar to NEYM and Cuba) with a bridge
of love is nescessary to help us with this. This is God's
calling of us, to stay together, to communicate amongst
ourselves on a frequent basis, to go do work projects
with Quakers in other countries. To live with Quakers
in countries other than our home country. To never give up
on the hope that someday Quakers will have an understanding
of each other, regardless of geographic location, culture,
language, and economic status. God gives us this message,
and all we must do now is put it into action.