23 Jun Happy Birthday to You
Today is Bishop Phil Whipple’s birthday.
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Today is Bishop Phil Whipple’s birthday.
About 50 women have now registered for the UB Women’s Conference, scheduled for September 17-19 in Lancaster, Pa. New registrations will begin surging in now.
To read about the conference, and to register, please go to the Women’s Ministry website.
George Speas has been appointed interim pastor at Pleasant Valley UB church (Lake Odessa, Mich.), following the resignation of Ken Himebaugh.
Ron Cook has been appointed long-term interim pastor at Criders UB Church (Chambersburg, Pa.) through 2011.
Thirteen people from the Mt. Pleasant Church (Chambersburg, Pa.) are headed to Zacapu, Mexico, July 15-26. They are beginning a partnership with a sister United Brethren in the Mexico National Conference. During their 11 days in Mexico, they will do some construction on the church and run a week of Vacation Bible School. A Facebook page is devoted to the trip.
A recent survey of the Huntington University Class of 2009 showed that 72 percent of the 159 graduates surveyed had acquired fulltime employment within eight months after graduation. Another 15 percent are attending graduate school (an increase from previous years), and another 8 percent have found part-time employment.
“Considering this economy, I think our graduating students did very, very well finding jobs,” said Martha Smith, associate dean of student development.
Contact was made with 146 graduates for the survey.
In just two years, the number of HU students attending graduate school has increased from 5 percent to 15 percent. The largest areas of graduate studies for the Class of 2009 were counseling, social work, and theology.
I received a call this afternoon (June 14) from Robert Cassidy, co-leader (with his wife, Fonda) of the Honduras Medical Team which arrived in Honduras Friday afternoon, June 11. Here are some notes from our conversation.
The group will return to the States on June 19.
As mentioned previously, one family at Mainstreet Church (Walbridge, Ohio) was hit especially hard by the June 5 tornado, which crashed through their home and took off the second floor. The four members of the Walters family all asleep in upstairs bedrooms when the home was flattened to its foundation.
Mary Walters, 36, and her son Hayden, 4, were both killed. Husband Ryan, 37, and daughter Madison, 7, were hospitalized, Ryan in critical condition.
On Sunday night, June 13, Ryan Walter passed away. Madison was released from the hospital on June 13, but continues recovering from some broken bones. Now she faces life without any of her immediate family.
Other news from Mainstreet:
Bishop Phil and Sandy Whipple are currently visiting churches in the former Midwest Conference–Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. On Sunday, June 13, they were at the Sabetha, Kansas, church in the morning and Trinity UB in St. Joseph, Missouri, at night. On June 15, they travel on to the church at Garnett, Kansas, then on to Abilene on June 16.
The Pastoral Ministry Leadership Team has approved the following:
The Local Church license, issued by individual churches, is the starting point for all ministers. Local church licenses have been issued to these persons:
In addition, cluster leader Dalton Jenkins reports that local church licenses will be issued on June 27 to these three persons from First UB Church of the Bronx, New York, where Linton Thomas is the pastor: