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The Friends Incubator for Public Ministry empowers emerging Quaker leaders and their communities through spiritual formation, education, and collaboration, revitalizing public ministry to create a vibrant, modern Quakerism for today's world.

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Friends Incubator is publishing a collection of living lessons and stories from Quaker public ministry, richly illustrated by Joey Hartmann-Dow of Us and We Art. Constellation of Witness co-editors include Windy Cooler, nova sturrup, and Tom Hamm. Find out more.

Do you have a story to share from your own experience or through example, contemporary or historic? Send in your idea! Write to Windy, convener of the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry, at windy@friendsincubator.org. The work is underway, so do not delay!

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Youth Ministry Is Public Ministry: Kody Hersh on Power With.

Religious education has always been public ministry. Following Pentecost, Jesus’s disciples became apostles, students became teachers — the foremost religious educators of the early church. 17th century Friends traveled in the ministry sharing an emergent faith and developing practices. The 19th century invention of “First Day School” moved formation outside the home and family and placed religious education in the public community of the meeting. If Quaker public ministry is