Strong & Courageous:

A Panel On Quaker Public Ministry

ONLINE AT POWELL HOUSE
APRIL 18TH, 2024
7:00PM - 9:00PM EASTERN

Joshua 1:9 Haven’t I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don’t be timid; don’t get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take.

In cooperation with Friends General Conference, Powell House is offering a fishbowl-style panel on the call and challenges to public ministry. Join more than a dozen Quaker public ministers in the testimonial experience of serving Friends in the capacities of traveling minister, educator, pastor, advocate, healer or prophet. 

Co-facilitated by Rashid Darden and Windy Cooler on Thursday, April 18th from 7 to 9pm Eastern.

Rashid Darden is the Associate Secretary for Communications and Outreach for Friends General Conference.  Based in Conway, North Carolina, Rashid is also a novelist. 

Windy Cooler is a member of Sandy Spring Meeting in Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She describes herself as a practical theologian, public minister, good Quaker pirate, and cultural worker. Windy has been an embraced public minister since 2018, traveling widely among Friends with a concern for communities in crisis and Quaker family life. She was co-editor of Friends Journal’s News section (2018-23); the Pendle Hill 2020 Cadbury Scholar, a 2022-23 fellow of the interfaith NGO Odyssey Impact, and a current doctoral candidate at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

She has served as the convener of Ben Lomond Quaker Center and Powell House's Testimonies to Mercy, a seven-part traveling retreat series on the future of Quakerism featuring nine public ministers; and Life and Power, an international discernment project on abuse. She holds a master of divinity from Earlham School of Religion. You can read her series on public ministry, written for FGC, here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/category/news/public-ministry/