A Prophetic Witness (Guest Speaker: Janet Grove)
Isaiah 1:16-17, 10:1-3
Janet Grove has been marching to her own drummer since at least 6th grade. She joined up with Quakers over 20 years ago because the things they were saying sounded like what she already believed. She is an active member of Camas Friends, always with an eye towards ways to put our testimonies into practice.
Janet teaches math, physics and environmental science at Washougal High School. She is getting married in less than a month. She is honored to have been asked to represent Sierra Cascades on the general committee of FCNL.
Isaiah 1:16-17:
Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 10:1-3
Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
Queries:
Does the idea of a Prophetic Witness resonate with you? What ideas and images does it bring up?
Are you feeling called to engage with the work of FCNL by staying informed, lobbying, or through financial support?
In what other ways do you practice these Quaker Testimonies?
What is your lane, and what does it mean to you to be in it?
First Word: Kendra Purcell
Kendra Mason Purcell has been angry at the government since the Clinton administration. Her first political action was supporting the Amoskeag Fishways, a 54 step fishladder built in a Manchester, NH dam. Kendra protested the Iraq war in 2003, same war her husband Patrick would be deployed to in 2007.
Kendra participates in Quaker life, locally at Hillsboro Friends Church, (Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends' first unprogrammed meeting), on Safeguarding Committee in SCYMF, and in General and Naming Committees at FCNL.
She continually exercises her feminist philosophy in her partnership, parenting, and Doula practice.