WELCOME TO FOR'S NEW WEBSITE.
Dear Friends, On behalf of Mark Johnson, our executive director, and staff and National Council of FOR, I am happy to welcome you to our new website.
Our address (URL) on the internet hasn’t changed but our appearance has. We hope you will enjoy the new site, which will allow you to research information from FOR’s online archives as well as read about our current work, campaigns, services and plans.
No website launch is “bug” free. So I am sure you might find some areas of the website under construction. If you encounter difficulties when you think you shouldn’t, please email our webmaster.
Our current work can mostly be found in our campaigns section, our services section and also throughout our blog (found the home page right column). The left column on the home page is our features section and meant to highlight prominent issues or concerns. Resources will allow you access to search tools which can help you discover pages from our old website and the online version of our archives. About Us should help you find the right person at FOR for you to connect with, with your questions, concerns or interest.
In the future, our campaign and services pages will provide much more interaction and much more information including live feeds of news about the issue or geography area of concern. This has been a long project, but again I asked your patience; we are still learning and growing the site.
In the future, we hope chapters of FOR will want to host their local site within ours, and local organizers will want to post their upcoming efforts to make our planet more secure, not by weapons or war or anger, but by justice, communication, empathy and understanding.
We have a great mission that has been passed on to us. We invite you to share it with us. If you are not a member or a Friend of FOR, please sign up for our newsletter (at the top of this page) and sign our Statement of Purpose online.
The words of wise spiritual men and women down through the centuries in various cultures have brought us special words: “Do not be afraid; Fear will keep us from seeing what is most needed and what can be accomplished by a group or even by one.” Speak your truth, honestly and sincerely and as a trustee not its author. The word is spoken to bearer as much as to the listener.” “If we want peace, we must work for justice among the peoples (all peoples).”
These few insights are profound and they invite us to be upward moving toward handing holds in a way that peace and justice work is done; we feel at home in our FOR community; and we are respected for what we are do and will do. Please use the new website to be a part of your commitment to justice.
Bill Winston
Director of Advancement & Communications
Fellowship of Reconciliation — USA
