November 18, 2004

1. Gerald Penick, secretary of the Southeastern
California Conference, has been elected president
following the retirement of Lynn Mallery. Sandy Roberts,
who has been an associate youth director, was elected
conference secretary.

2. Dan Jackson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church in Canada, is conducting meetings in Toronto,
Canada. He is halfway through the series with an average
attendance of 200 during the week, and 400 on the
weekends. Each year Dan has been conducting a series in
his home Union.

3. Jere Patzer, president of the North Pacific Union, is
conducting bilingual meetings in Forest Grove, Oregon.
Nightly attendance has been about 500 plus another 150 in
the children's meetings. Six churches have been
participating in the meetings. It appears that there
could be about 100 decisions for baptisms by the close of
the meetings.

4. Each year after the NAD Year End Meetings, the three
division officers are to attend the division meetings in
another part of the world. Juan Prestol and I went to the
Northern Asia-Pacific Division meetings in Korea, and
Roscoe Howard went to the West Africa Division.

5. Roscoe Howard, Secretary of the NAD, was with Gerry
Karst, General Conference Vice President, and Ray Wahlen,
from G.C. Treasury, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, attending the
Year End meetings of the West Africa Division, when
fighting broke out. The rioting seemed to be centered
around the hotel where Roscoe and Ray were staying. They
could not leave the hotel for three days, but did have
phone contact with Karst who was staying with Adventist
missionaries from Canada. Howard and Wahlen were evacuated
out the back door of the hotel into a barge, and taken to
a French military base. Karst and the Canadian
missionaries were taken by military convoy to the airport,
where they met Howard and Wahlen and boarded a plane to
Ghana. Others who were attending the division meetings
went by bus to neighboring countries. From Ghana, Howard
and Wahlen flew back to the States, Karst continued on his
itinerary to South Africa.

6. Linda Gallimore, wife of Michigan Conference
President, Jay Gallimore is recovering from successful
cancer surgery. Please continue remembering the
Gallimores in your prayers.

7. Elder Mel Rees passed away. No other information
available at this time. Elder Rees was a pioneer in
Stewardship Education throughout North America.