The Kin-Dom of God: Living into the Covenant
When the Hound of Heaven is on your track
Noah Baker Merrill Thursday, 16 July 2009
Leadings, Vocation, and Surrender
"I can't say that I've come to the house of God, but I have seen it. I've seen it in the way love moves in relationship."
Noah Baker Merrill serves as program manager of Direct Aid Iraq, a grassroots aid, advocacy, and relationship-building effort supporting a future of peace for and with Iraqis. He travels often among Iraqis as part of this service, accompanying Iraqi friends and colleagues in their work with our Iraqi neighbors who are displaced in the Middle East, in American communities, and elsewhere.
In his travels in the ministry with faith communities in the United States, Noah carries a concern for Friends' prophetic service - both the call and the response. In sharing his experience of Love’s movement in his life, he hopes to encourage Friends to more fully embrace God’s invitation to live into the Kingdom of Heaven through the faithful integration of worship and witness.
Noah is a member of Putney Friends Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting), from which he carries a minute in recognition and affirmation of his call to a "ministry of waking hearts."