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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!
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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.
2024 Book List
Workers and Ministries
Women Who Risk
By Tom and JoAnn Doyle
Despite enormous risks to themselves and their families, former Muslim women are now influencing their husbands and their children and bringing others to faith in Jesus Christ. No matter where they live, these women are the God-ordained spiritual gatekeepers of their families. Even though the level of oppression that women face under Islam is unfathomable to many in non-Muslim nations, these brave women stop at nothing to share their faith
Bruchko
By Bruce Olson
What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized the world of missions
2023 Book List:
Reload Love: Transforming Bullets to Beauty and Battlegrounds to Playgrounds by Lenya Heitzig
The Mind of a Missionary: What Global Kingdom Workers Tell Us About Thriving on Mission Today by David Joannes
Christian Life/Biography
Gay Girl Good God
By Jacki Hill Perry
“I used to be a lesbian.”
In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel.
Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.
Girl's Club
By Sally Clarkson, Joy Clarkson and Sarah Clarkson
Told through stories and encouragement based on the authors’ experiences―Sally, a seasoned mother and well beloved author; her daughter Sarah, an Oxford scholar and new mother; and her youngest daughter Joy, a professional young woman pursuing her doctorate―Girls’ Club will speak to the importance of cultivating deep and lasting friendship at every stage in life. Join Sally, Sarah, and Joy as they explore the power, difficulties, potential, beauty, and satisfaction of friendships that help us live purposeful, Godly lives and that satisfy our longing for meaningful and intimate companionship.
2023 Book List:
Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About by Ryan Casey Waller
Divine Disruption: Holding on to Faith When Life Breaks Your Heart by Dr. Tony Evans, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans & Jonathan Evans
Friends (Quaker) & Classics
Quaker Leaders Who Transformed the World
By David Kingrey
Quakers (Friends) have been well known as leaders since their origin in the mid-sixteen hundreds. By the grace of God, these leaders have transformed lives, indeed the world, throughout their history. These life sketches are not intended to be full biographies, but profiles of Quaker leaders, etched in their history-making roles of transforming lives, society, and the world. Hopefully, the reader will be inspired to research more deeply their lives and ministries that changed the world.
In His Steps
By Charles M. Sheldon
When Rev. Henry Maxwell asked the members of his small church to pledge not to do anything, whether significant or mundane, without first asking themselves the question "What would Jesus do?" he had no idea what the next year would bring. Neither did those who agreed to this seemingly easy task. One by one, their lives would change. But what they never anticipated was how their entire town would be affected.
2023 Book List:
Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week by Jason Porterfield
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew with John and Elizabeth Sherrill
Christian Fiction
The Escape Game
By Marilyn Turk
After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her college on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddington game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp. Beryl knows there is a board game with escape plans being delivered to POWs by the Red Cross. But how can she let them know about the game's secret without revealing the information to the enemy?
The Metropolitan Affair
By Jocelyn Green
With Egyptomania sweeping the city after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, Detective Joe Caravello is on the hunt for a notorious forger preying on the open wallets of New York's high society. Dr. Lauren Westlake is just the expert he needs to help him track the criminal. Together they search for the truth, and the closer Lauren and Joe get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime.
As things become more and more complicated, Lauren must learn that her true identity and worth are found in Christ
2023 Book List:
No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert
Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes
READ TO WIN!
General Reading Course Prize Drawing:
For every 2 books a person reads from the 2023 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:
If a person reads all 8 new books on the 2023 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:
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, 2024, 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 Reading Report
Entry Forms must be postmarked, e-mailed or submitted through the website by February 15, 2024. The Prize Drawings will be held February 28, 2024. Prize winners will be notified and listed in the Spring 2024 edition of the Quaker Bonnet.
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).
Other Resources
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
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)