United News: July 2007

Campers and staff from Alaska to Florida, Pennsylvania to California and Minnesota to Texas—24 states in all—swarmed into camp June 9 and 10 to begin our 13th year at Pinecrest.

A Web site in Switzerland offering advice for women seeking to exit the lesbian lifestyle has requested permission to post an article published in the May-June 2006 issue of Gute Nachrichten.

Jim Franks, Ministerial Services operation manager, and David Baker, senior pastor for Asia, traveled to India and the Philippines in June.

The year 2007 has seen record-break ing months, every month, for January through May for outgoing pieces of literature from the home office mail room.

Roy Holladay and his twin sister, Roberta, were born in Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1940 to Robert and Grace Holladay.

The May-June 2007 issue of the Gute Nachrichten (German Good News ) magazine was again mailed to a record number of subscribers.

Breaking Free Journal has been chosen as the name of the new online magazine that will focus on addictions, mental illness and various forms of dysfunctional behavior.

These are great times for online marketers.

Working closely with the Festival planning team, the travel education group has begun planning trips throughout the Middle East and other biblically significant locations to provide regular rotating opportunities for education travel.

Plans are to translate and post one Good News article a month on a new Portuguese Web site, www.revistaboanova.org.

Preparations for the seventh annual ABC continuing education seminar at the home office in Milford, Ohio, is almost complete.

Two are set to teach in Jordan this year, and 10 to 15 will serve next summer in a six-week project.

During the last few months the number of churches and attendance in Zambia has more than doubled.

Victor Kubik, a member of the Council of Elders and senior pastor for Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, traveled to those areas June 11 to 28.

Peter Eddington and Clay Thornton traveled to Europe June 18 to July 3 to videotape historic locations and interview members for the 2007 Feast sermon video, "Threshold of a New Age."

A special fund-raiser provided $3,000 to help pay the printing costs for the German version of the 32-page booklet The Middle East in Bible Prophecy.

Since April, nine new Beyond Today programs have aired and three programs have aired again.

On Sabbath, June 2, the Ministerial Development team began a four-day leadership workshop in Santiago, Chile.

The youth camp in Zambia was held from April 26 to May 1 at Nalubanda.

The number of English-language Good News magazines to be printed for the July/August 2007 issue at three locations around the world is as follows:

On the Feast of Pentecost, 146 people met in six locations in the German-language region:

In May I had the opportunity to visit a member in Gokwe.

World News and Prophecy is seeing impressive increases in circulation from year to year.

The Summer 2007 issue of the Consumer Information Centre brochure included an offer to receive Marriage and Family: The Missing Dimension and the May/June 2007 Good News.

The Canadian National Council met in Abbotsford, British Columbia, June 5 to 7.

As the 2007-08 fiscal year gets underway July 1, we are mapping out an exciting Good News print advertising campaign.