Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting | |
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Classification | Quaker |
Associations | Friends World Committee for Consultation; Evangelical Friends International |
Region | Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India |
Origin | 1956 Chhatarpur |
Branched from | Ohio Yearly Meeting |
Congregations | 5 |
Hospitals | 1 |
Primary schools | 4 |
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]
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]