Monthly Newsletters
Ujima Friends Peace Center May 2026 Newsletter
This May 2026 newsletter, “Love in Motion,” highlights the ongoing work of the Ujima Friends Peace Center and Unity Friends Meeting as a community rooted in Spirit, love, service, justice, and collective care.
It opens with Unity’s Clerk, Phil Lord, reflecting that restoring the Unity Friends Meetinghouse is not only about the physical building, but about building a spiritually committed community that stands with the oppressed and practices love through action. The newsletter then celebrates recent events, including the UFPC Open House with about 55 supporters, the Emancipation Fellowship visit, Friends & Family worship, a Ministerial Council gathering, and a new air quality sensor partnership connected to Frankford CDC and Thomas Jefferson University.
It also shares ongoing ministries: With These Hands, where SWAP elders are helping young ladies make pads and graduation stoles for Sankofa Freedom Academy students, and the food giveaway, which served 244 families this month. Looking ahead, the newsletter announces the Ujima Friends Freedom School: Friendly Spaces, beginning June 29, with hopes of welcoming 50 young people. It closes with an Asé Corner honoring Bayard Rustin as a Black Quaker, pacifist, civil rights strategist, and faithful witness for peace and justice.
Ujima Friends Peace Center April 2026 Newsletter
This April 2026 issue of “Love in Motion” highlights the Ujima Friends Peace Center’s recent community gatherings, justice-centered programming, and ongoing ministries.
The newsletter begins by grounding the work in the idea that love requires labor, connecting ancient African symbolism with the Quaker belief that love should be “the first motion.” It then celebrates past events, including a Kwanzaa celebration, the Of Art & Spirit gathering, an MLK Worship Share, conflict resolution training for middle and high school students, an intergenerational trip to City Hall, the launch of Unity Friends Meeting, and a potluck with the To Be Here/Journey Arts team.
The ongoing ministries include HealYourLovePeriod wellness circles, which are being hosted at Unity on second Sundays and third Saturdays; With These Hands, where young ladies completed cloth pads and panties that were delivered to a school in Gambia; and the food giveaway, which continues on the first and third Saturdays to serve hundreds of families. The newsletter closes by looking ahead to Ujima Freedom School: Friendly Spaces, a summer program rooted in the 1964 Freedom School tradition and shaped by African-centered and Quaker values.