From the beginning, Nahunta Friends have had an interest in outreach, as evidenced by starting new meetings around the Goldsboro area. Lending a hand to friends and neighbors in need has been a great part of the life of Nahunta Friends. One of the most diligent workers in the missionary circle was Cora Aycock. She was very much interested in Friends' missionary efforts, and always wanted to be sure that a good part of the meeting's budget was used for benevolent giving. Thus, for many years, an amount over and above our Yearly Meeting askings has been set aside for missions. Like Elijah's mantle, this concern dropped on her daughter's shoulders, and Joyce Pope has carried on her mother's love and efforts for mission work.

    In the early 1960's, Doris Gurley was instrumental in forming a circle for the women in the meeting who had public jobs and couldn't meet in the daytime with the original circle. This circle was named for Lona Edgerton who was a staunch leader in USFW. The Friendship Circle and the Lona Edgerton Circle have contributed monthly by supporting USFW projects, carrying on home projects, making clothing for the American Friends Service Committee, sending baby layettes to mission hospitals in Africa, sending clothing and other items to Indian Centers, and sending hygiene bags to the AFSC and to local migrant workers. Red Cross blood drives have been sponsored by Nahunta, beginning with the leadership of Melinda Caughron. The circles participate in the USFW reading program. Lona and Crethie Edgerton were two members who received reading certificates for many years. A group of young adult women have recently begun a new circle called "Friends in Faith," and the Lona Edgerton Circle is providing baby sitters for their meetings.

    One of Nahunta's ministers, Jack Caughron, was given permission by the meeting to serve as chairman of the Yearly Meeting Missions Committee for six years, beginning in 1978. The meeting was aware that this would require, in effect, sharing his time with the work of missions. Jack and Harold Richardson had already been to Mexico on a work camp, helping build a structure for residents of a village near Matamoros to use for worship and study. Later, Jack and J. D. Howard went to Mexico to build a cement floor and benches for this building. In 1980, Vivian Caughron participated in a work camp in Mexico. In 1985, Deborah and Rebecca Howard went to Jamaica as work camp volunteers. In 1990, Jean and Christy Edgerton and Rebecca Howard went to Mexico to help with Bible School for the mission children. Doris Gurley served for nine years on the Yearly Meeting Missions Committee. Learning of a need for Bibles written in the Spanish language, Bill Crawford donated a case of Bibles to the mission center in Mexico.

    Nahunta participates in the Faith Promise program for missions. For the past several years, we have participated in the Adopt-A-Bed program for the Lugulu Hospital in Africa. We have hosted and attended many missionary conferences on the Yearly Meeting level, and some of our members have attended international conferences. Nahunta is also a member of the United Church Ministries, a joint effort of fifty-three churches in Wayne County to serve needy families with financial help and with the food bank, to which we contribute regularly. Hazel Edgerton has served as contact person for Nahunta since 1989.

    Nahunta Friends try to take seriously the commands of Jesus who said, "Go ye into all the world" and "Feed my sheep."