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Alaska Friends Conference is supporting the Tribal Council of the Organized Village of Kake, AK by fundraising for the Native-led Kake Regional Cultural Healing Center in Southeast Alaska. The Kake Regional Cultural Healing Center will be a place for people to experience land-based healing for substance abuse, rooted in cultural practices and values. Click on the Headline to learn more.

(Photo is of the Friends Mission in Kake, Alaska, April 1905.  Photo courtesy of Alaska State Library Catalog Collection.  

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Avis Wanda McClinton traveled with support from Alaska friends from Pennsylvania to present to our yearly meeting's Annual Sessions at Dickerson Friends Center. 

Together as we were gathered, we watched her interview with Friends Journal, available to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOhg1GQF7s

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Friends are invited to join us for Annual Sessions 2023 of the Alaska Friends Conference, August 3-6, 2023.

Register here to participate (online and/or in person): https://forms.gle/nV1puY3Mxr7DdiVY7

Registration fee information listed below after the schedule. 

Thursday, August 3:

Afternoon: Arrival at Dickerson Center and Set up Camp

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Mat-Su Friends Monthly Meeting
     meets weekly on Sundays at 11am in various places
     for further information call either
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Alaskan Quakers Seeking Right Relationships (a committee of Alaska Friends Conference) has consulted dozens of resources in studying our own past with indigenous peoples and boarding schools.

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Alaska Friends Conference approved the language below at our Annual Sessions in August 2022. Below are PDFs of this same apology, with either footnotes or endnotes.

Photo credit: Jan Bronson of Anchorage and Cathy Walling of Fairbanks, representing the Alaska Friends Conference, apologize to Alaska Native communities for the boarding schools it ran in Alaska and the United States. The apology took place at Sayéik Gastineau elementary school in Juneau, the former site of a Quaker mission school, during Orange Shirt Day on Friday. (Photo by Lisa Phu/Alaska Beacon)

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Chena Ridge Friends Meeting
2682 Gold Hill Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
United States
Anchorage Friends Meeting
2824 E 18th Ave
Anchorage, AK 99508
United States
Homer Monthly Meeting
PO Box 367
meets 10 am Sundays @ Homer Council of the Arts on W. Pioneer
Homer, AK 99603
United States
Juneau Monthly Meeting
Juneau, AK
United States
Dickerson Friends Center
(Physical address, not mailing address)
9414 W. Hollywood Rd
(near Johnson Road)
Wasilla, AK 99623
United States
Three Rivers Monthly Meeting
Mile 99.8 Parks Hwy, R on Luthman, R on Shade Tree, First driveway on left
15575 E. Shade Tree Dr.
Talkeetna, AK 99676
United States
Haines Worship Group
Haines, AK
United States
Kenai Worship Group
contact Kim for location Kimkeck [at] gmail.com or 907-953-5426
Sterling Hwy.
Soldotna, AK 99669
United States
Donations to Alaska Friends Conference and Dickerson Friends Center
P.O. Box 241732
Anchorage, AK 99524
United States
MatSu Friends Monthly Meeting
meets 11am in various places
Call John 907-746-1152 or Linda 907-841-2129
Palmer, AK 99654
United States
Meetings & Worship Groups

Anchorage Friends Meeting

Chena Ridge Friends Meeting (Fairbanks)

Haines Worship Group

Homer Friends Meeting

Juneau Friends Meeting

Kenai Worship Group

Mat-Su Friends Meeting

Sitka Worship Group

Three Rivers Worship Group (Talkeetna)