Unless otherwise noted, Quarterly Membership Meetings are held during the first week of March, June, September and December. The December meeting is traditionally our Holiday Party and the meeting where official business and election of officers takes place. Members, guests, and interested persons are invited to attend any of our meetings. Location and details will be published in the newsletter, and provided below.
Quarterly membership meetings are a good time to chat with old friends, get acquainted with new members and find out what is going on in the club.
Guests and non-members are welcome to join us and find out more about Friendship Force.
Board meetings generally are held immediately following our Ethnic Luncheon on the third Saturday of each month at the restaurant. No Board meeting is scheduled for those months with a quarterly meeting. Contact an officer or Board member for information, if you wish to attend a Board meeting.
Ethnic Luncheons are held at noon on the third Saturday. Please
contact Judy Williams (817) 680-9316 [text, not voice] by Wednesday prior to the dinner, unless otherwise noted below, in order to assist in determining a reservation count.
Restaurants have come and gone. Do you know of a new ethnic restaurant or an old one that we haven't visited in a while? Contact Judy Williams and let her know. She would really like to have your suggestion.
Check back later for the location.
Join us for good food, good friends and lots of good conversation. Guests and interested non-members are always welcome.
Board Members: A Board meeting will be held immediately after lunch at the restaurant.
AzerbaijanThe Azerbaijan club has regretfully cancelled their Journey to Fort Worth for 2025, but hopes to reschedule in the future.
We have not been assigned an Ambassador Journey for 2025. Members are encouraged to check the FFI member portal for International Journeys with other clubs.
Sarasota, FloridaDue to Hurricane Merlin making landfall at Sarasota on the day they were planning to fly to Dallas, the Sarasota Inbound Journey was been postponed from 2024 to 2025. New dates for this journey are in work.
Western North CarolinaJoin us as we visit Hendersonville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. (Click and scroll to the bottom for an online Visitors Guide.)
There's beautiful scenery, interesting sites and, of course, our friends in the Friendship Force of Western North Carolina, with all their southern hospitality. Hendersonville is only twenty miles from the Biltmore House and gardens, near Asheville.
Cost of the journey will be $500, which includes FFI and local club fees.
In addition there will be an optional 3-day visit with the Friendship Force of Shelby, NC, just 60 miles to the east.
Shelby is a large town/small city of a little over 20,000 population. If you like old style country music, Shelby is the home of the Earl Scruggs Center and Don Gibson Theatre. Gibson is the composer of many country/pop songs, including "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Oh, Lonesome Me".
Cost of this extension will be $175, including FFI fee.
Estimated round trip airfare to Asheville is about $500.
Applications and a $200 down payment are required by February 1. Full payment, after acceptance of your application, will be required by about March 1.
Send your $200 down payment to Treasurer, Friendship Force of Fort Worth, PO Box 16181, Fort Worth, TX 76162.
You can fill out the online Ambasssador applications here, email it to Linda Doyle (ldoyle059@gmail.com), or download and print the form here, and snail mail to Linda Doyle, 2327 CR 126, Gordon, TX 76453.
You can bring both check and application to the January Ethnic Luncheon on the 18th.
Our trip to Oakwood Cemetery for the Saints and Sinners Tour was lots of fun.
No addition day trip events are scheduled at this time. But check back later. We are considering a day trip to Historic Grandbury in 2025.
If you have an interesting place, within 150 miles or so, that you think our club would enjoy, and would be willing to help organize, contact Jeri Edmunds (682) 559-9335. We can put it on the list for this year or next.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, FFI and other groups created numerous interesting and entertaining opportunities for Friendship Force members to help us stay involved in international "virtual" cultural events. Many of these activities, including the Book Club, are still going on, post pandemic. The latest Virtual Experiences are available HERE on the FFI website, or go to your My Friendship Force member portal.
FFI also includes a time zone converter link on appropriate Virtual Experience blog entries.
None currently scheduled, but the Board is planning for the future.