Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting

Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting (Bundelkhand Masihi Mitr Samaj) is a yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state in mid-India.[1] It was formed from Friends Churches set up by missionaries from Ohio Yearly Meeting in 1896,[2][3][4] and the first independent yearly meeting was held in Chhatarpur in 1956.[4] Theologically it falls within the evangelical tradition,[1][3] unlike nearby Mid-India Yearly Meeting.[4][5]

Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting
ClassificationQuaker
AssociationsFriends World Committee for Consultation; Evangelical Friends International
RegionBundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India
Origin1956
Chhatarpur
Branched fromOhio Yearly Meeting
Congregations5
Hospitals1
Primary schools4

The main Friends' Church is at Chhatarpur, where the church is adjacent to Chhatarpur Christian Hospital, which was set up by Friends from the Friends' Foreign Mission Society in 1930,[2][6] and run by Friends[2] although is now administered as part of Emmanuel Hospital Association.[6] There is also an English-medium and Hindi-medium Christian school run by the Friends' Church.[2] There are also Friends' Churches at Nowgong, Bijawar and Gwhara.

It is affiliated to Evangelical Friends Church International[3] and Friends World Committee for Consultation.[1][7]

References
  1. Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) (April 2009). "List of Meetings". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  2. Nixon, Eva Anna (1985). A Century of Planting: A history of the American Friends' mission in India. Newburg, OR, USA: Barclay Press. ISBN 0-913342-55-6.
  3. Evangelical Friends Church International. "Evangelical Friends Church International: Asia". Evangelical Friends Church International. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  4. Arnett, Mary (2008). "A Brief History of Friends in India". Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  5. Sykes, Marjorie (November 1980). Quakers in India. UK: Routledge. ISBN 0-04-275003-2.
  6. Emmanuel Hospital Association. "Chhatarpur Christian Hospital". Emmanuel Hospital Association. Archived from the original on 2009-05-25. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  7. Friends World Committee for Consultation Asia and West Pacific Section. "FWCC Asia and West Pacific Section Affiliated Yearly Meetings and Groups". Friends World Committee for Consultation. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-17.


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