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| area = [[Bundelkhand]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]
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| founded_date = 1956
| founded_place = [[Chhatarpur]]
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'''Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting''' (Bundelkhand Masihi Mitr Samaj) is a [[yearly meeting]] of the [[Religious Society of Friends]] in the [[Bundelkhand]] region of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state in mid-[[India]].<ref name="FWCC list of meetings">{{cite web|url=http://www.fwccworld.org/find_friends/index.php#awps |title=List of Meetings |last=Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) |date=April 2009 |accessdate=2009-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708124842/http://fwccworld.org/find_friends/index.php |archivedate=2009-07-08 }}</ref> It was formed from Friends Churches set up by missionaries from [[Ohio Yearly Meeting]] in 1896,<ref name="Century of Planting">{{cite book|last=Nixon|first=Eva Anna|title=A Century of Planting: A history of the American Friends' mission in India|publisher=Barclay Press|location=Newburg, OR, USA|year=1985|isbn=0-913342-55-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofplantin00nixo}}</ref><ref name="EFCI" /><ref name="Brief History of Friends in India" /> and the first independent [[yearly meeting]] was held in [[Chhatarpur]] in 1956.<ref name="Brief History of Friends in India">{{cite web|url=http://www.pym.org/pym_wgs/comments.php?id=2494_0_257_0_C |title=A Brief History of Friends in India |last=Arnett |first=Mary |year=2008 |publisher=Philadelphia Yearly Meeting |accessdate=2009-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124222831/http://www.pym.org/pym_wgs/comments.php?id=2494_0_257_0_C |archivedate=January 24, 2009 }}</ref> Theologically it falls within the evangelical tradition,<ref name="FWCC list of meetings" /><ref name="EFCI">{{cite web|url=http://www.evangelicalfriends.org/Asia|title=Evangelical Friends Church International: Asia|last=Evangelical Friends Church International|publisher=Evangelical Friends Church International|accessdate=2009-07-17}}</ref> unlike nearby [[Mid-India Yearly Meeting]].<ref name="Brief History of Friends in India" /><ref name="Marjorie Sykes">{{cite book|last=Sykes|first=Marjorie|title=Quakers in India|publisher=Routledge|location=UK|date=November 1980|isbn=0-04-275003-2}}</ref>

The main Friends' Church is at Chhatarpur, where the church is adjacent to Chhatarpur Christian Hospital, which was set up by Friends from the Friends' Foreign Mission Society in 1930,<ref name="Century of Planting" /><ref name="EHA" /> and run by Friends<ref name="Century of Planting" /> although is now administered as part of [[Emmanuel Hospital Association]].<ref name="EHA">{{cite web|url=http://www.eha-health.org/eha-in-mp/chhatarpur|title=Chhatarpur Christian Hospital|last=Emmanuel Hospital Association|publisher=Emmanuel Hospital Association|accessdate=2009-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525115336/http://www.eha-health.org/eha-in-mp/chhatarpur|archive-date=2009-05-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> There is also an English-medium and Hindi-medium Christian school run by the Friends' Church.<ref name="Century of Planting" /> There are also Friends' Churches at [[Nowgong, Chhatarpur|Nowgong]], [[Bijawar]] and [[Gwhara]].

It is affiliated to [[Evangelical Friends International|Evangelical Friends Church International]]<ref name="EFCI" /> and [[Friends World Committee for Consultation]].<ref name="FWCC list of meetings" /><ref name="FWCC AWPS">{{cite web|url=http://fwccawps.org/find_friends/index.php |title=FWCC Asia and West Pacific Section Affiliated Yearly Meetings and Groups |last=Friends World Committee for Consultation Asia and West Pacific Section |publisher=Friends World Committee for Consultation |accessdate=2009-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708124848/http://fwccawps.org/find_friends/index.php |archivedate=2009-07-08 }}</ref>

==References==

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[[Category:Quaker yearly meetings]]
[[Category:Christianity in Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Christian organizations established in 1956]]
[[Category:1956 establishments in Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Annual events in India]]

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