Bundelkhand Yearly Meeting

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Evangelical Friends International

| 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.{{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 }} It was formed from Friends Churches set up by missionaries from Ohio Yearly Meeting in 1896,{{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}} and the first independent yearly meeting was held in Chhatarpur in 1956.{{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 }} Theologically it falls within the evangelical tradition,{{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}} unlike nearby Mid-India Yearly Meeting.{{cite book|last=Sykes|first=Marjorie|title=Quakers in India|publisher=Routledge|location=UK|date=November 1980|isbn=0-04-275003-2}}

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, and run by Friends although is now administered as part of Emmanuel Hospital Association.{{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}} There is also an English-medium and Hindi-medium Christian school run by the Friends' Church. There are also Friends' Churches at Nowgong, Bijawar and Gwhara.

It is affiliated to Evangelical Friends Church International and Friends World Committee for Consultation.{{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 }}