Humanitarian Assistance

Humanitarian Assistance/Tigard Community Friends Church/Briggs, Carol/Cammack, Dan/'Kenya Attack' Missionary loses eye./Kenya London News/London/England/UK/15-Feb-07//Dan Cammack, pastor of the Tigard Community Friends Church, says Briggs faces at least two more operations. But he said she was able to recognize her ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Tigard Community Friends Church/Briggs, Carol/Cammack, Dan/Oregon Volunteer Loses Eye After Attack In Kenya/KOIN.com/Portland/OR/USA/15-Feb-07/AP/The pastor of the Tigard Community Friends Church where Briggs is a member says she faces at least two more operations. Briggs is a 64-year old retiree with ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Tigard Community Friends Church/Briggs, Carol/Cammack, Dan/Oregon missionary wounded in Kenya loses eye/kgw.com /Portland/OR/USA/15-Feb-07/AP/Dan Cammack, pastor of the Tigard Community Friends Church, says Briggs faces at least two more operations. But he said she was able to recognize her ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Tigard Community Friends Church/Briggs, Carol/Kuto, Grace/Tigard woman shot in Kenya/Kenya London News/Nairobi/Kenya/Africa/9-Feb-07//Briggs and other members of the Tigard Community Friends Church have for years fueled the Chwele Health Clinic with volunteer time and funding. ...

Humanitarian Assistance/Temperance/Drug Abuse/Mickelson, Gar/Mickelson honored for service/The Spokesman Review/Spokane/WA/USA/13-Feb-07//Gar Mickelson, pastor of the Evangelical Friends Church in Hayden Lake, Idaho, was honored Monday as one of seven Idaho regional community service award winners for his efforts to prevent or treat substance abuse.

Mickelson, who advocates for community change, received the award during ceremonies in Boise held by the Regional Advisory Committees on Substance Abuse.

The group chose Rep. Margaret Henbest, R-Boise, to receive the fourth annual Patricia Kempthorne Award, which recognizes outstanding work in substance abuse and treatment....

Humanitarian Assistance/Medicine/Rawson, David/When genocide came to Rwanda, the world looked away/Malaysia Sun/Kuala Lampur/Malaysia/Asia/13-Feb-07//The U.S. ambassador in Kigali, David Rawson, proved especially vulnerable to such bias. Rawson had grown up in Burundi, where his father, an American missionary, had set up a Quaker hospital. …

Humanitarian Assistance/Immigration/Newberg Friends Church/German immigrant laid his foundation in Mac/McMinnville News-Register/Newberg/OR/USA/1-Feb-07//After a few days, the Vosslers boarded a Great Northern train for a trip across the country. The Friends Church in Newberg had offered to sponsor their settlement in Oregon....

Humanitarian Assistance///Good Causes/Emporia Gazette/Emporia/KS/USA/15-Feb-07//The First Friends Church annual Chili Supper and Country Store will be from 4:30 to 7:30 pm Feb. 22 (Thursday) at the church on Sixth Ave. and Sylvan St. ..

Humanitarian Assistance///Tigard AIDS volunteer shot by roadside thugs in Kenya/The Times/Tigard/OR/USA/15-Feb-07//Two people deeply concerned about Briggs are Dan Cammack, co-pastor of the Tigard Community Friends Church, where Briggs is a long-time member, ...