https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/82075151413?pwd=OFJhZUUwUGZTZ08zbitoeERhODJ5UT09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Meeting ID: 820 7515 1413; Passcode: 301733<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eden Grace, a resident of Maine, a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting, a longtime key staff member at Friends United Meeting passed away at the end of May at a hospice center in Scarborough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A memorial service for Eden will be held on Saturday, July 22 at 1pm, under the care of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting in Boston. There will be Zoom access; details will be posted here when available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “God freely gave us the life of Eden Grace. Freely,” her husband Jim posted a few days after she passed. “This realization overwhelmed and enveloped me last night in a period of wakefulness. God had no obligation to give us this life. Like all of God’s gifts it was freely and abundantly given.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eden gave a message at Durham Friends on September 6, 2020 titled Telling the Truth About Whiteness.<\/a> A collection of her essays can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From 2013 to 2020 she was Director of Global Ministries at FUM<\/a>. Prior to that, she served FUM in Kenya. <\/p>\n\n\n [Updated 23.6.13, and again 23.7.19] Any who wish to attend Eden Grace’s Memorial Service at 1 PM on\u00a0Saturday, July 22\u00a0over Zoom are invited to gather together at the meetinghouse.\u00a0 The link is\u00a0 https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/82075151413?pwd=OFJhZUUwUGZTZ08zbitoeERhODJ5UT09 Meeting ID: 820 7515 1413; Passcode: 301733 … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-692x1024.png\")
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