What is Friendship Force?
Friendship Force is a non-profit international organization that promotes cultural understanding through personal contact. The Friendship Force of Knoxville utilizes travel as a means to meet people from different cultures and places rather than emphasizing the place itself. By being a guest in other people's homes and by inviting them to be a guest in our homes, we believe we can break barriers that divide us.
Change the way you see the world!
- Make friends around the world
- Stay in homes of people around the world
- Host in your home people from around the world
- Foster International good will
- Enhance cross-cultural understanding
For More Information About Friendship Force International, please visit their website at https://www.thefriendshipforce.org/
Note from the President
I am grateful for the many Friendship Force of Knoxville members who helped us get through a difficult year, venture outward with not one, but two outbound domestic journeys, and host one inbound U.S. club. It takes many to make this club operate, the people you see as well as the folks behind the scenes who make things happen. Thank you!
The San Antonio ambassadors—nine from the San Antonio club, and two from Austin, Texas, enjoyed a five-day visit in October. They got a good feel of East Tennessee, from downtown Knoxville to the Museum of Appalachia, Norris Dam, and Lenoir Museum, to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You’ll get a chance to hear what it was like to host an ambassador at our November 16 general membership event.
Next month we will gather in person at the December 11th Holiday Event which will pay tribute to FFK’s 40th anniversary. I hope to see many of you there at the Highland Point Clubhouse.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jayne Raparelli, President