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Fellowship of the Least Coin

What is the Fellowship of the Least Coin?

The Fellowship of the Least Coin (FLC) is a worldwide ecumenical movement of prayer for peace and reconciliation. Through this movement, Christian women around the world meet and pray with each other and are reminded to live a reconciling and forgiving life with others. Though “least coins” are given with each prayer, it is not a fund-raising project, but a movement of prayer, peace and reconciliation. Anyone who wishes to join this movement makes a commitment to spend time in prayer whenever she has a strained relationship with another person, and to uphold in prayer others who are victims of jealousy, hatred, violence and injustice.
Each time she prays for justice, peace and reconciliation, she sets aside one “least coin” of her currency as a tangible token toward her prayer being answered. These coins are sent regularly to her country’s FLC collection point, where it is forwarded to the FLC Fund. The amount collected by each country is never publicized; only the total sum collected each year is announced. It is important that only the “least coin” of each currency be set aside so that even the poorest women of each country can be a part of this fellowship of love and care. 

The FLC Prayer

O Loving Creator, we present ourselves in your divine presence to thank you for the bountiful gifts of life. We are especially grateful for the Fellowship of the Least Coin, which binds us together in love and forgiveness around the globe. Free us from all doubts and prejudices, we pray. Inspire us to live in solidarity with humankind, that we may know the joy of giving and receiving.
Dear God, accept this least coin “token of Love”. Make us mindful of the miracles of these coins. Let us honour your creation with love, as shown through the life, death, and resurrection of your son, Jesus the Christ. Amen.

The FLC Logo

The idea for the FLC logo — the praying hands forming a lotus flower — came from the late Mrs. Rayann Ma from Hong Kong. She was the first Chairperson of the first Assembly of the Asian Church Women’s Conference (ACWC). The actual design was the gift of her brother-in-law, James Ma, a commercial artist. 

Circle of Prayer

Feeling the need to reaffirm prayer as the vital element of the FLC, the ACWC asked the women of Hong Kong to prepare a booklet of prayers to be used as the "least coin" is set aside. Since then, the Circle of Prayer booklet has become an important part of the FLC. Twenty-four meditations and prayers are written by women around the world and published by the International Committee for the FLC every two years. 

The International Committee for the FLC

Because the FLC prayer movement became truly worldwide and made grants to programs and projects all over the world, an International Committee for the FLC (ICFLC) was formed in 1979 to administer the promotion, the interpretation of the movement and the allocation of the FLC grants. The International Committee is comprised of representatives of worldwide ecumenical women’s organizations and of regional ecumenical conferences of the churches. Year after year, the ICFLC learns to trust God more and more and to work in faith.

The Committee meets every year to share stories about the miraculous works of the FLC around the world and to decide on FLC grants for the following year. Application forms for project grants are received four months prior to the meeting. The members of the Committee study the application forms, pray about them, discuss and decide on each project without knowing how much FLC funding will be available for the grants they wish to allocate for each year. The “least coins” from around the world come in with prayers, quietly and gradually, to meet the needs for each year. Our gentle, loving and compassionate God never fails us. God does great works through the humble, the least, the marginalized and the poor. That's the strength, the promise, the beauty, and the surprise upholding the FLC prayer movement. 

Every year ICFLC is invited by different regions to hold its meeting in their country. An exposure and a visitation program is added to the regular business meeting in order for the representatives to know more about the region and to be aware of the issues and the concerns of the people there. ICFLC meetings have been held in: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1995); Christchurch, New Zealand (1996); Helsinki, Finland (1997); Chiang Mai, Thailand (1998), Seoul, Korea (2003), and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2006). Every four years the committee meets immediately following the ACWC Assembly.

The Uniqueness of the FLC

The FLC Prayer Movement is simple, yet significant and unique: 

1. It brings Christian women together in a fellowship of prayer without any discrimination of race, nationality, colour, culture or denomination. Christian women have solidarity through their common concern and love for humankind. Women of the world are bound together by both giving “least coins” and by women of every region receiving grants. 
2. The offering is unique because all, whether rich or poor, educated or illiterate, urban or rural, give only the smallest coin of their currency. All are within the same discipline and share the common concerns of women around the world. 
3. It is stewardship, both of the idea and of the Fund. When “least coins” are put together, along with the individual prayers offered by members throughout the world, they become a strong force in bringing about justice, reconciliation, and peace.

The “least coin” teaches us to be humble, to value the least, and to trust that nothing is impossible for God who can do great things from out of the least and the unexpected. 

Least Coins may be sent at any time to: 

Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada
47 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Toronto, ON  M5S 2C3

To contact the ICFLC: 

ICFLC
c/o Women's Department, CCT
109 CCT Building, 13th floor, 
Surawong Road, Khet Bangrak 
Bangkok 10500, THAILAND 
Tele/fax: (662) 238-3521 
E-mail: icflc@locinfo.co.th

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