The Valiant Sixteen

Traveling Ministers and Elders

Micah B, 26,*  Heartland Friends Meeting (Great Plains Yearly Meeting)

Betsy B, 32, First Friends Meeting (North Carolina Yearly Meeting)

Julian B, 27, Central Philadelphia Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)

Sadie F, 26, Putney Friends Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting)

Sarah H, 29, University Friends Meeting (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)

Sarah H, 30, Freedom Friends Church (Independent)

Kathy H, 34, Multnomah Monthly Meeting (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)

Faith K, 24, grew up in Shiloh Chapel Evangelical Friends Church (Evangelical Friends Church – Eastern Region)

Erin M, 27, unprogrammed Quaker without a meeting membership

Treye M, 29, University Friends Meeting (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)

Noah M, 30, Putney Monthly Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting)

Sarah P, 32, Spokane Friends Church (Northwest Yearly Meeting)

Christina R, 29, Atlanta Friends Meeting (Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association)

Emily S, 28, Durham Monthly Meeting (Piedmont Friends Fellowship and North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative)

Jon W, 26, grew up in and attends Richmond Friends Meeting (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)

Ashley W, 28, Freedom Friends Church (Independent) and University Friends Meeting (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)

*All ages are at the time of the interview/correspondence.

[From the research paper I wrote for the School of the Spirit on the spiritual nurture of young Friends traveling in the ministry.]