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Quaker Bonnet
Quaker Bonnet
The Quaker Bonnet is the official publication of the Evangelical Friends Church Mid-America Friends Women Fellowship. It is edited by Mary Englis.
You can read the most recent issue of the Quaker Bonnet by clicking on the image to the right. Previous issues are available by clicking on the links below.
The Quaker Bonnet is now a digital newsletter. It can be printed off if you prefer. The newsletter will come through to the email you have submitted to us, so if you have restrictions set up, please put this email address on your acceptable list: quakerbonnetmaym@gmail.com . The "from" line will be "Mary Englis". Thank you for reading and sharing!
Winter 2026 Quaker Bonnet NL.pdfPast Issues
Past Issues
Reading Course
Reading Course
To complete the Friends Women Fellowship Reading Course please read each issue of the Quaker Bonnet and a minimum of one title (listed below) from each of the following four categories:
Friends (Quakers) & Classics
Fiction
Missions
Biography & Christian Life.
It is also recommended that all ladies read current Quaker periodicals as available. The four books are to be read completely and individually within the year. A book may be read for credit only once.
Recognition will be given in the Quaker Bonnet for those completing all requirements for the Reading Course. Books added to the Reading Course will be used for two years. The newest titles are listed first.
If you would like to see books from previous years, click here.
2026 Book List
2026 Book List
Workers and Ministries
Workers and Ministries
Street Kids, Solvents & Salvation
Street Kids, Solvents & Salvation
By Natalie Vellacott
By Natalie Vellacott
They were forgotten by the world—Filipino street children trapped in a cycle of poverty, addiction, and despair. Society had cast them aside. No one believed they could be saved. Until one ship arrived. Carrying 400 Christian volunteers from 65 nations, a missionary vessel sailed into the heart of darkness with a single mission: bring light, love, and lasting change. What happened next is nothing short of a miracle.
Gray Matter
Gray Matter
By David I. Levy, MD & Joel Kirkpatrick
By David I. Levy, MD & Joel Kirkpatrick
A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy’s decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.
2025 Book List:
2025 Book List:
Why God Calls Us To Dangerous Places by Kate McCord
10 Women Who Changed the World by Daniel L. Akin
Christian Life/Biography
Christian Life/Biography
Gentle and Lowly
Gentle and Lowly
By Dane Ortlund
By Dane Ortlund
Christians know what Jesus Christ has done—but who is he? What is his deepest heart for his people, weary and faltering on their journey toward heaven? Jesus said he is “gentle and lowly in heart.” This book reflects on these words, opening up a neglected yet central truth about who he is for sinners and sufferers today.
Walk With Me: The Story of a Girl in Congo
Walk With Me: The Story of a Girl in Congo
By Argentine Imanirakunda & Dawn Hurley
By Argentine Imanirakunda & Dawn Hurley
As a young girl, Argentine faced an impossible dilemma. She could not walk, and she lived high in the hills of eastern Congo where walking was the only way to school, or the market, or any future at all. Still, Argentine refused to give up. Full of plucky determination and unaware of the war simmering nearby, Argentine threw herself from one dangerous situation to the next, sliding down muddy slopes in the rain and dodging herds of cattle as she crawled to school. This is a story of faith, hope, and the love that carries us all.
2025 Book List:
2025 Book List:
Invisible by Jennifer Rothschild
Fire Road by Kim Phuc Phan Thi
Friends (Quaker) & Classics
Friends (Quaker) & Classics
Celebration of Discipline
Celebration of Discipline
By Richard Foster
By Richard Foster
Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.
The Singer
The Singer
By Calvin Miller
By Calvin Miller
In this timeless poetic reimagining of the gospel story, Calvin Miller tells the story of a Singer whose song could not be silenced. Since it was first published in 1975, The Singer has helped thousands of readers discover the life of Christ in a fresh way.
2025 Book List:
2025 Book List:
Kings and Queens in the Kingdom of God by Keith White, Ph.D.
The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
Christian Fiction
Christian Fiction
The Winter Rose
The Winter Rose
By Melanie Dobson
By Melanie Dobson
In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart.
When the Waters Came
When the Waters Came
By Candice Sue Patterson
By Candice Sue Patterson
Pastor Montgomery Childs has tended his flock in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for two years. While his pews are full every Sunday, he most desires to see a reckoning between God and the kings of industry who recreate on Lake Conemaugh. Like Noah, Monty prays against the evil surrounding him, but he never expects God to send a flood.
2025 Book List:
2025 Book List:
The Tapestry of Grace by Kim Vogel Sawyer
The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip by Sara Brunsvold
READ TO WIN!
READ TO WIN!
General Reading Course Prize Drawing:
General Reading Course Prize Drawing:
For every 2 books a person reads from the 2025 Friends Women Reading Course book list (which lists 8 books) she will earn one entry into the General Reading Course Prize Drawing. (Maximum eight entries per person.)
There will be three winners drawn from the General Reading Course Prize Drawing and each of the three winners will receive a $10 Visa gift card.
Top Readers Prize Drawing:
Top Readers Prize Drawing:
If a person reads all 8 new books on the 2025 Friends Women Reading Course book list, she will also earn one entry into the Top Readers Prize Drawing.
There will be one winner drawn from the Top Readers Prize Drawing and the winner will receive a $25 Visa gift card.
How to enter:
How to enter:
Each year if you read any 2 books and/or all 8 new books on the Friends Women Reading Course you could win a gift card! Simply fill out a Friends Women Reading Course Prize Drawings Entry Form and mail it to the Reading Course Secretary, Carrie Beyer, by February 15, 2026, and you will be entered into the Friends Women Reading Course Prize Drawings. Individuals may submit their own entry form or the local FWF president may print a Reading Report, fill it out for their entire fellowship, and send it in.
Download your Entry Form / Download your Group Form
Entry Forms must be postmarked, e-mailed or submitted through the website by February 15, 2026. The Prize Drawings will be held February 28, 2026. Prize winners will be notified and listed in the Spring 2026 edition of the Quaker Bonnet or Quaker Bonnet E-blast.
Questions? Contact Carrie Beyer at 9279 SE Garden Road, Baxter Springs, KS 66713, at 417-317-3792 (mobile) or e-mail her at cbeyer06@gmail.com (be sure to put “Reading Course” in the subject line).
and the winners are...
and the winners are...
The winners of the 2024 Reading Course drawing have been announced, and we are thrilled to share their names with you!
Top Reader Prize: Nancy Whiteman - Hutchinson Friends
General Prize: Carla Neifert - Pratt Friends
Judith Schafer - Northridge Friends (Edna Chilson)
Lisa Halverstadt - Haviland Friends
Congratulations and happy reading!
Other Resources
Other Resources
Yearbook: No Charge for Electronic
Yearbook: No Charge for Electronic
The Yearbook includes all of the information for your Friends Women Fellowship group for the upcoming year, including monthly meeting devotionals, book list for the Reading Course, info on our missionaries and details for on our projects for the year. Each member of the group should have their own copy.
EFI-WMF Program Book: No Charge for Electronic/$5.00 for Print
EFI-WMF Program Book: No Charge for Electronic/$5.00 for Print
The Evangelical Friends Church International and Women's Missionary Fellowship organizations provide a listing of all Friends missions organizations across the US. This book is a valuable tool for those who want to be praying in one accord with others around the world. It contains a roll call, devotion and verses for 10 months of the coming year. Program books are emailed in a PDF version. If you need printed copies mailed to you, they will be $5.00 a piece. Order yours today, making your check payable to EFC-MAYM Friends Women.
To order yearbooks or program books, contact Sue Randall (Email)
Constitution and Bylaws
Constitution and Bylaws
To view the current version of the Evangelical Friends Church Mid-America Friends Women Fellowship Constitution and Bylaws, click on the image of the book.
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