UCG elder David Smith sends some spectacular photos of
icebergs off Cape Spear in Newfoundland taken the first week
of May, 2008. He says it's been a great season for sighting
icebergs -- see
them.
Earth Day
program at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis about LifeNets
water wells in Malawi and Zambia. It was given by Cathy McClure and Victor
Kubik on Friday, April 25, 2008.
More.
Here are some final links
of interest regarding Kayleen Hannaway's
successfully winning scholarship contest:
New Crossword
Puzzle today
(April 21)
courtesy of Kate
Washburn: UCG Feast
Sites
Saturday, April 19, 2008
New
Crossword Puzzle:UCG
Fundamental Belief 1
(answers found in chapter 1 of booklet Fundamental
Beliefs of the United Church of God)
Kayleen Hannaway is in the FINAL
TWO!!! If you voted, PLEASE COME BACK for the FINAL
ROUND!
Your
click TODAY can help Kayleen Hannaway with this $20,000 scholarship!
Your
click TODAY can help Kayleen Hannaway with a scholarship!
To vote, please
CLICK HERE and then click on the tab "Final Four". Then
click on the "vote" link for Kayleen, and it will take you
to a page with her profile, (along with the profile of her
most direct competitor). That is where you can cast your
vote for Kayleen. Only one vote, per computer, per round is
allowed. You can vote any time between right now, and the
morning of Wednesday, April 16th for this "Final Four"
round.
Below is a 4 minute clip from 8 mm film found of my Dad
making pottery. He was a master artist who painted in
various media, carved wood and made pottery at home.
This was created an fired in our garage when we lived in
West St. Paul, Minnesota.
.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Bev Kubik (left)
with LeeAnn Luker at the Puget Sound 10th Annual Women's
Enrichment Weekend March 21-23. Bev made a
presentation entitled "Do You Have Children?" on March 23.
It's the story of a heroic woman in Ukraine working with
street children. Our Vinogradov Project.
See text of message along with PowerPoint
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KENYA: After
weeks of delay in the LifeNets Girls Scholarship Program due
to political violence, we
finally start our program with the first nine girls. School
started on
February 19th.
Report by Rose McDowell
Brian Gallagher,
CEO of the United Way of America speaks to the Indianapolis,
Indiana Economic Club on February 21, 2008. He spoke about
how social change comes from making programs people oriented
and market driven away from institutional orientation and
from being process driven.
MORE.
One of the
Balaka, Malawi's area chiefs, Chief Mpulula
thanks United Church of God Northwest Women, LifeNets
and others for the their help to Malawi's orphans. Blankets,
mosquito nets, food, medicine and more has been donated.
UCG member Mrs. Karen Schuster, who attends in Portland,
Oregon, is running for Mrs. Washington as Mrs. Clark County.
See contestants
LifeNets
volunteer Sonali Fiske travels to Sri Lanka in December
2007/January 2008 and helps distribute 560 pair of
eyeglasses.
See
the story. Also, check LifeNets on our
Eyeglasses
page
FOUR NEW
Bill Bradford
sermons from Australia --
Wrestling With God--Story of Jacob, Does the Gospel Message
Have Solutions For You?, Effects of Cultural Shifts on the
Church, Is Your Heart Still Hardened?
The work of God in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia is featured in
this segment of "About My Father's Business" when Johnnie Lambert
and Victor Kubik are interviewed by UCG president Clyde Kilough.
(posted February 9, 2008) Real Media
stream. Real Media
download
Artist Carmel Smith, daughter of UCG elder David
Smith and his wife Blanche of St. John's Newfoundland talks about the opening of
a new art gallery in Bridgewater Nova Scotia where she
lives. Carmel and her mother write children's
books. See this site's promo for
Digger Donaldthat was distributed throughout bookstores in Canada.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
FIVE NEW Prophetic Times
issues from for December 29, 2007through January 26, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Chris Rowland of the Lafayette United
Church of God is featured on Indianapolis PBS station WFYI
on Across Indiana first aired on January 28, 2008.
The segment is called Reuben Realm. You can watch the
4 minute segment by clicking on the links below.
FIVE NEW
World News and
Prophecy
radio programs
with Dr. Donald Ward: Setting the Prophecy Stage,
Does it Matter?, Group Think, Such a Time as This, Money on
the Rock
Historic moment in the Lafayette, Indiana UCG congregation
as the MEN prepared the potluck meal after Services on January 12, 2008 AD. Family Christian Club followed.
MORE!
Isabell Hoeh
dies on November 21, 2007 in Mobile, Alabama. See
Prayer Page.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
On July 23, 2003 I recorded the Hampton Sisters making a CD
recording. Here is one of my favorite: Watermelon Man.
See it on YouTube below.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Aletra Hampton of the
well-known Hampton sisters dies November 12 at the age of 92
in Indianapolis, Indiana. The funeral was on November 17th. Aletra and her sister
Virtue were amazing jazz musicians who certainly left their
mark on the minds of their community and Church of God
friends and will be greatly missed. Take a look at the
following stories:
Arielle Falardeau is UCG Youth Corp
Volunteer who served in Ghana from August 10-20, 2007.
Her trip was also sponsored by LifeNets.
Read
about her experiences.
NEW
World
News and Prophecy
radio program
with
Dr. Donald Ward:Perilous Times
IMPROVED AUDIO
Visit to the NK
alcohol/drug-free cafe in Tallinn, Estonia on the way
home from the Feast of Tabernacles. LifeNets has supported
the work of Lauri Beekman to help with a appalling problem
with youth and alcohol.
LifeNets was beneficiary
of September's Walk for Hope in Long Beach, California for
the third year running....
Life
Now you can ALSO SHOP online and benefit LifeNets by clicking on the
icon. To shop click on the icon or click here
to go directly to shopping. It's EASY!
Monday, October 22, 2007
This short video is still being played on Indianapolis PBS TV
station WFYI. It is from a Communities
Building Communities segment hosted by former Indiana
First Lady Judy O'Bannon (right). She speaks about LifeNets
and its work.
View the clip.....
LifeNets van for our Vinogradov Street Children
is delivered in September 2007 to its destination in
Ukraine. On the left is Vasyl Polichko along with some of
the children that he and his wife Irina (in the middle) care for.
Thank you all for helping us with the funding of this Mercedes van.MORE
PICTURES
Phil Myers who along with Aaron Blue and Jennifer Myers
participated in the LifeNets Malawi Medical Mission in
June/July 2007. He completes his wonderful
travel blog on October 11th. You may want to read his
last entries.
Paul and Kira Spenser distribute
2000 brochures in their hometown of Mjolby, Sweden
advertising Are We Living in the End Times?See our latest
Nordic Newsletter!
September 8, 2007 Boot Scoot and Barbecue
benefit in Ft. Worth, Texas raises $3500 for
LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship
Fund.
See Story and Photos
On August 12, 2007, Dr
Garvey Chilopora tied the knot with Gloria
Milanzi in a colourful wedding, officiated
by United Church of God minister Morgen
Kriedmann. It was officiated in Chichiri,
Blantyre, and thereafter a reception at the
Mount Soche Hotel.
See more photos. Dr. Garvey
Chilopora is the son of Dr. Sam and Esther
Chilopora of Ntcheu, Malawi.
LifeNets volunteers Megan, Mariah and Marissa
Fooshe finished a project for socks and shirts collected in the
Nashville, TN for 26 shirts and 108 pair of socks that were sent
to Mexico and Peru. Way to go!
What if
LifeNets earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now
we can!
GoodSearch.com
is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per
search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you
would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great
results.
Just go to
www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter LifeNets as the charity
you want to support. Just 500 of us searching four times a day will
raise about $7300 in a year without anyone spending a dime! And, be sure
to spread the word! START NOW by clicking on the GoodSearch icon
on the right!
UCG Festival in Estonia in 2007....
master schedule updated.
There is still room for more attendees for this
exciting, inspiring, scenic Feast of Tabernacles in
Estonia.
Read updated post
about the Feast. We invite you to come and share
this special time with us.
Every time you SEARCH the
Internet, you can quickly, effortlessly and with no cost
to you, raise funds for LifeNets scholarships,
livelihood development programs, agriculture, orphans,
medicine and much more. It's simple. Go to
GoodSearch.com.
On the line that says "WHO DO YOU GOODSEARCH FOR?" type
in LifeNets. Then search. Every click on search
item will automatically give LifeNets .01. That
means 500 people a day clcking twice will raise $10.
A thousand people clicking 4 times will raise $40.
It's easy, painless and the Search Engine, powered by
Yahoo, is as good as any. You can also add
GoodSearch to your Browser Toolbar and make searching
and benefiting LifeNets even easier!
Council of Elders meetings -- final
reports
Tuesday,
August 7, 2007
Wednesday,
August 8, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
August Council of Elders Reports Sunday,
August 5, 2007 Monday,
August 6, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Graduation receptions in West Lafayette, IN for
Arielle
Falardeau and Andrea Pacelli. Family and Friends had a
wonderful Sunday afternoon on May 20.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Updated
Press
Release about new LifeNets Project in Kenya for educational and
training opportunities for young girls attending scattered United
Church of God congregations in Kenya.
Gladstone and Alice Chonde of Lilongwe UCG
Malawi are happy to announce that their son Meshack Chonde and
Tionne Nyioringo were united in marriage on May 13, 2007. Father of
the groom, Gladstone Chonde officiated at the ceremony.
Successful LifeNets Malawi Farm / Garden
Livelihood Development Project outside Blantyre for UCG member Peter
Kawinga.
Please read this story
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Blankets made by United Church of God ladies
in the Pacific Northwest are distributed to orphans at the LifeNets
Orphan Care Centre on June 20, 2007.
Read
eyewitness reports and see lots of pictures!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
LifeNets North Dakota Chapter builds float for
4th of July Parade promoting the 2007 Mandan Triathlon on August
26th. Read more about the
PARADE. Details about
this year's Triathlon
Want to participate? Register at
Active.com
Phil Myers and Aaron are
arriving home from a phenomenal trip to Africa. Read
their latest posts on their
TravelBlog.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Former Indiana First Lady Judy
O'Bannon visited and spoke to my Rotary Club on July 11,
2007. She is always an animated and exciting speaker.
She is currently hosting a long-standing PBS series
"Communities Building Community." On May 8, 2003 her
program featured the work of LifeNets. More on Judy O'Bannon's visit or go to
my blog.
You can see
clips here:
Here's another
HUGE iceberg that floated by St. John's, Newfoundland
David Smith saw this at lunchtime on June 5th.
Take a look at
a bigger version and the rest of the photos. It's
amazing that 90% of the berg is BELOW the water line.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
LifeNets
newsletters
along with the latest Annual Report
Karen Schuster, Chip Chuprinko and others in Portland,
Oregon are organizing fundraiser to benefit LifeNets and Lions.
See website
www.lunchspecialstoday.com. Karen did May
20, 2007 interview to promote Lunch Specials Today on 1190 KEX radio.
Hear it! (mp3)
LifeNets Sponsors Medical
Mission to Malawi for the Summer of 2007. Three Young
Pioneer Volunteers will be headed out May 28. Exciting
Trip!!
See who's
going.
Bev and I visited Malawi
and inspected the
finished 500
meter security wall around the Lilongwe, Malawi Boys School as
Rotary Matching Grant that we had written was completed. This was
just prior to the Feast of Tabernacles. This is similar to the wall
that is almost complete at the LifeNets Chizeni Clinic in
Balaka.
Thursday, April 5,
2007
Mark Crittenden,
Manager of Operations at the Indianapolis Air Traffic
Control Center speaks to our Rotary Club on April 4th about
the construction of nearly year-old super control tower at
Indianapolis Airport.
See my
blog report.
Dennis Ryerson,
Editor of the Indianapolis Star speaks to my Rotary Club on March 14,
200. He gave a fascinating
speech about what's happening in the constantly changing world of
media and information.
UCG members Dr.
Garvey Chilopora engaged in colorful traditional engagement
ceremony to Gloria Milanzi of Blantyre, Malawi. An
August 12, 2007 wedding is planned.
MORE
Friday, March 9,
2007
LifeNets March Story
of the Month: LifeNets North Dakota President Pam Redline (right)
presents bicycle to Gracia who has polio.
More.
UCG member Mary Chisevente of rural Mapoko, Zambia receives LifeNets
wheelchair delivered by Kambani Banda in January 2007. She
has been disabled since age 15, yet continues to work in
the fields and walks five miles to church services each week on
her crutches.
Please
read Kambani Banda's inspiring story about Mary. Bev and
I had the privilege of meeting her at the 2006 Feast of
Tabernacles.
The
list below contains items that have been recently added or changed. They are
also found in their respective categories on this web site.
Your
click TODAY can help Kayleen Hannaway with a scholarship!
feNets
and others for the their help to Malawi's orphans. Blankets,
mosquito nets, food, medicine and more has been donated.
Saturday, February
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Do
you need a conversion chart from old to new hymnal until the
song-leader's and accompanists version comes out.
Sunday, July 29, 2007