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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida--Charles Fleming, Caribbean regional director, has been named regional director for the Spanish-speaking areas and the Caribbean.
Mr. Fleming and his wife, Carmen, live in Florida.
DALLAS, Texas--Singles are invited to the third annual "Big D" Grand Gala during the weekend of Feb. 10-11. Evangelist Carn Catherwood will be the guest speaker for the worship service.
After the service a semiformal dinner-dance will take place at the Dallas Grand Hotel. The Wendell Craig Band will provide music and entertainment.
Casual Sunday activities will feature games, more dancing and a Texas barbecue lunch buffet at the Big D Ranch (Old Fort Dallas) in southern Dallas County. Music will be performed by The Marty Yale Band.
The cost for the entire weekend's activities is $40. The deadline for payment is Feb. 1. Make your payment to D/FW Metroplex Singles Association and mail to Becky Branson, Box 1451, Wylie, Texas 75098-1451.
The Dallas Grand Hotel offers the flat rate of $62 a room (one to four people). Call as soon as possible to reserve a double-double--a room with two queen size beds, two baths and two closets (telephone 1-800-421-0011 and mention you are with the WCG).
Registration forms will be mailed to most church areas. If your pastor did not receive a packet, call 1-214-442-4789. For information on in-home housing, call 1-214-442-4789 and for general information call 1-214-530-9078.
BARISAL, Bangladesh--John N. Biswas, president of National Gospel Outreach in Bangladesh, wrote a letter to Neil Earle to thank the church for helping them "make possible What Is a Real Christian in Bengali language."
"We are grateful to Dr. Warren Waian, pastor of the San Bernardino, California, church, and Randal Dick, director of Church Administration International, for arranging financial support to print this informative booklet which has been a successful avenue of bringing the ... Bangladeshi to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ," Mr. Biswas wrote.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana--Eighty-five people kept the Feast here. For some who live in the interior of the country, the Feast is the only time they have contact with a minister. They traveled for long distances, walking, canoeing and riding buses where available.
"They truly hunger for God's word," said guest speaker Gil Goethals. "It was an honor to speak to them. After services, they wanted Bible studies. How exciting!"
Youth day was at the botanical gardens, and the youths received gifts sent to them by the Tacoma and Bremerton, Washington, churches.
"The people there may not have much, but they are rich in love and caring," Mr. Goethals said.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota--Members of the Minneapolis South congregation taking part in "Made With Love Project," have made and donated quilts, booties and caps to the Children's Hospital here for use in the neonatal intensive care units and other intensive care areas.
These items help make the care areas more homelike for the children. A special addition was two quilts made by Linda Tarnowski and donated to a newly established hospice room for terminally ill children and their families.
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri--The YOU under Jason Frantz presented a plaque to Jesse McClain, deacon in the Springfield church, honoring his 20 years as coordinator of the Over Sixty Club. YOU members and seniors celebrated with a noon potluck meal Sept. 10.
After the meal, YOU members interviewed the seniors. The youths will write biographies based on the interviews and display them for the congregation to read.
CARMI, Illinois--Holly Roe, 9, daughter of Tim and Anne Roe, finished second in the Ohio Valley Regional Gymnastics Championships in June. She competed on the floor, bars, beam and vault.
To qualify for the Ohio Valley Regional Gymnastics, Holly first had to compete against 64 gymnasts at the Illinois State Gymnastics. She finished first on the floor and the double-mini, and seventh on the trampoline.
This entitled Holly to compete at the National Gymnastics Championships, where, against another 64 competitors, she finished first on the trampoline and seventh on the double-mini.
Holly attends the Evansville, Indiana, church with her parents and is the niece of Dwight and Rhonda Viehe, pastor of the Grand Island and North Platte, Nebraska, churches.
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