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Loud worship and other contrasts set apart Kenya's large community of Quakers
- Quaker worship in western Kenya includes loud hymns, instruments, dancing, and clapping, unlike the silence commonly associated with Quaker meetings in the United States.
- The Friends Church in Cheptulu has no cross, paintings, or sculptures of Jesus Christ.
- Kenyan Quakers added faster music and modern instruments to attract young people who had found earlier worship services boring.
- The congregation bought a keyboard after some young people left for churches with faster music, which helped bring them back.
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KAIMOSI, Kenya (AP) — A choir blasts a local hymn complete with musical instruments as congregants, mostly women clad in white dresses, dance and clap along. The Quaker meeting house
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Loud worship and other contrasts set apart Kenya's large community of Quakers
Inside a Quaker meeting house in western Kenya, loud music complete with modern instruments can be heard from a distance. The scene is a sharp contrast to the silence that is the norm among the Religious Society of Friends, or…
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