"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations" (Mt.28:19)

Who We Are

The Christian Quaker Internet Mission was created in 2006 by Conservative Friends in Greece. We think that a short history of Conservative Quakerism in Greece would be appropriate at this point. It's said that there was a Quaker Meeting in Athens in the 1970s but this information is not verified. It is true though that there have been individual Quakers (mainly of the Liberal tradition) residing in Greece one time or another. Conservative Quakerism came to Greece at the end of the 1990s.

In 1995 Themistoklis Papaioannou (then a Charismatic Interdenominational Christian) was drawn to pacifism after studying certain passages in the New Testament, he felt led by Jesus Christ to get in touch with the Quakers but he had no idea where to find them. One day searching in a Christian Library he found the "Journal of George Fox" which he studied. He prayed and God led him to believe in a number of Early Quaker doctrines. Th. Papaioannou and Elias Papaiannis were publishing a publication called "Evangelical Truth" (after a Ministry they started in 1994). Slowly, slowly the publication started preaching Christian Quaker doctrine. In 1998 Th. Papaioannou while attending a course at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, England became an affiliate member of Middleton Monthly Meeting of O.Y.M. (C). He changed the name of "Evangelical Truth"; to "Friends Christian Ministries" and stopped the Ministry in 2003 when Athens Christian Friends Meeting was established. Athens Christian Friends Meeting is an allowed Meeting of O.Y.M. (C) under the care of Rockingham Monthly Meeting and works with the New Foundation Fellowship (U.K.) and Friends in Christ (U.K.), etc.

Our goal is to preach the Everlasting Gospel and pure Quaker doctrine worldwide and to help start Meetings around the world. We link to Christian Quaker web sites in Greek and other languages which share the same goal.

Why an Internet Mission?