Friends United Meeting

Friends United Meeting
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Centrist (Mixed)
Theology	Quaker and Evangelical
Associations	National Council of Churches Friends World Committee for Consultation
Region	Worldwide
Headquarters	Richmond, Indiana, USA
Origin	1902
Congregations	258 in US (2010)
Members	24,826 in US (2010)
Official website	https://www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/

Friends United Meeting (FUM) is an association of twenty-six yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Its home pages states that it is "a collection of Christ-centered Quakers, embracing 34 yearly meetings and associations, thousands of local gatherings and hundreds of thousands of individuals". In addition there are several individual monthly meetings and organizations that are members of FUM; FUM's headquarters is in Richmond, Indiana, with offices in Kisumu, Kenya. Friends United Meeting is a member of the National Council of Churches in the United States of America.

There are five other branches within American Quakerism, two of them represented by parallel organizations^{[citation needed]} (Friends General Conference and Evangelical Friends Church International), the third (Central Yearly Meeting of Friends), the fourth (Conservative Friends), and the fifth (Beanite Quakerism), the fourth and the fifth having no single unifying organization. After the switching of around 7,000 Friends in California to the EFCI,^[1] FUM is the second largest association of Friends in the United States. As of 2010, there were 24,826 members in 258 congregations in the United States.^[2] The Friends United Meeting is responsible for much of the growth of Quakerism in Africa and Latin America.