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Jenaya Bonner has begun her service as a member of the Global Ministries staff in Macau. She left Fort Wayne, Ind., on the morning of July 6. She will teach English as well as build relationships with local youth and assist as a teacher trainer.
Jenaya grew up near Huntington, Ind., and attended Emmanuel Community Church in Fort Wayne. She graduated from Huntington University in 2009 with a degree in Educational Ministries with a cross-cultural focus.
Elizabeth Lydia Grace Hunt, 81, of Ithaca, Mich., passed away Wednesday, June 30. She was the widow of Rev. William Hunt, a former United Brethren minister.
Arrangements
Viewing: 6-8 p.m. Monday, July 5.
Location: Smith Family Funeral Homes Ithaca Chapel, Itacha, Mich.
Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 6.
Location: Ithaca Church of God.
Elizabeth married William Hunt in Sunfield, Mich., on December 23, 1957. Bill passed away in 2008. Elizabeth retired from teaching in the Ithaca Public Schools in 1985 after 30 years. She was a singing evangelist for 5 years in the United Brethren Church in 1952.
Online condolences can be sent from the Smith Family Funeral Homes website.
Teams from Bethany Evangelical UB hard at work with Serve FEST.
From June 24-28, Bethany Evangelical Church (Carlisle, Pa.) held its first Serve FEST to meet some community needs. Thirty teens and adults fanned out in work teams throughout Carlisle and surrounding communities.
Serve FEST was directed by Amy Moreno (right), Associate Pastor of Christian Education at Bethany Evangelical Church. She also led teaching and worship experiences each evening for the work teams. The teams were fed by volunteers from Bethany.
“We were seeking to find tangible ways we could express the love of Christ while exposing our teens to the needs in our local mission field,” says Pastor Paul Dunbar.
A post nearly two years ago told about the Oliver 1850 tractor that Randy Fennig took to Sierra Leone in 2008. But now you can hear Randy tell the tractor’s story in person in this two-minute video. The tractor is used in agricultural development in Sierra Leone.
Franklin UB (New Albany, Ohio) held its annual Faith and Freedom Sunday on July 27. Pastor Mike Brown says they use the service to to celebrate our God-given freedoms and honor those in the military who fought to keep them. Local leaders and politicians are invited. They also have “Guests of Honor.”
This year, they honored the Tuskegee Airmen, the military’s first black pilots. However, none of the nine surviving Tuskegee airmen from the Ohio chapter were able to attend–most would now be in their 90s.
Bishop Emeritus Wilber Sites was admitted to the Intensive Care unit at the Chambersburg Hospital (Chambersburg, Pa.) on Sunday, June 27, for a G I Bleed (diverticulitis). The bleeding has now stopped he is stable. They expect a few days’ hospitalization to keep a watchful eye on him and to gain strength. Please continue to pray for his quick healing and recovery.
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.
2010 Honduras Medical Team (click to enlarge)
The 19 members of the Honduras Medical Team returned to the States Saturday night, June 19. Co-leader Robert Cassidy called Donna Hollopeter in the Global Ministries office with an updated report.
