Church Administration announced that the following men are retiring: Robert Bertuzzi, Arthur Docken, Ken Swisher, Rowlen Tucker, Donald Wendt and Robert Whittaker.
The following men are no longer employed by the church. In some cases they initiated the separation in order to pursue other employment. Others were separated because of necessary budgetary cutbacks: David Carley, Jess Ernest, Mark Flynn, Steve Gerrard, Warren Heaton, Felix Heimberg, Benjamin Johnson, Terry Johnson, Paul Linehan, Jeff McGowan, Stanley McNeil, Coty Myrtil, George Pinckney, Joseph Scott, Paul Seltzer, Norman Strayer, Terry Swagerty, Eric Weinberger and Gerald Witte.
As reported in the Feb. 18 Worldwide News, regional pastor John Comino and his wife, Christine, moved to Sydney, Australia, to take care of family responsibilities. As there are no salaried pastoral positions available in Australia, John will serve as a local church elder in Sydney.
Our grateful thanks to these men and their wives for their years of service to God's people while in the employ of the Worldwide Church of God.
We are thankful that some of the men have agreed to become lay pastors and most have chosen to remain elders.
Please join with us in praying for God's blessings in their time of transition.
Church Administration released the following list of ministerial ordinations.
Alan Redmond, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Roger Labelle, Ottawa, Ontario
Ronald Cairns, North Battleford, Saskatchewan
Gilton Chakhaza, Blantyre, Malawi
Klaus Domes, Stuttgart, Germany
Atsu Dravie, Lome, Togo
Dean Frantz, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Gregory Gaetzman, Wausau, Wisconsin
David Jones, Aberdeen, Scotland
Edward Kagoro, Masini, Uganda
Richard Kissel, Frederick, Maryland
Ian MacDonald, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Caleb Makhela, Pietersburg, South Africa
James Marete, Kibirichia, Kenya
Charles Marino, New Bern, North Carolina
Emerson McIntyre, St. George's, Grenada
John Naested, Harare, Zimbabwe, East
Cliff Neill, Dunstable, England
Silvester Nkosi, Lilongwe, Malawi
Timothy Olatunji, Kaduna, Nigeria
Ester Reed, Houston, Texas
Francis Robertson, Shetland Isles, United Kingdom
Alfredo Sipert, Portland, Oregon, East
Timothy Sitterley, Eugene, Oregon
Willie Stephens, Fort Wayne, Indiana
James Stewart Jr., Boca Raton, Florida
Wayman Thurman, Houston, Texas, North
Thomas Whitmire, New Bern, North Carolina
Garth Whittome, Tisdale, Saskatchewan
Michael Hale, Pasadena, California
March 18, 1997, WN, page 16
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