FAMA NEWSLETTER
Volume 10 February 19, 2016 Number
1
A. Fellowship of
Adventist Missionaries to Africa Get Together
1. FAMA Meetings
2016
2. Things to do now
B. Reports
1. Madagascar
C. We Remember
1. Rose Stickle Passed Away
D. Future
Features
E. FAMA NL
e-mail address: wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com
FAMA NL
member’s e-addresses
F. Registration Form for our Meetings in
Fetcher, NC
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A. FAMA Matters.
1. FAMA meetings,
2016.
Details about our next
FAMA reunion:
What: Fellowship of Adventist Missionaries to
Africa (FAMA) Biannual Reunion
Where: The fellowship hall of the Fletcher SDA
Church in Fletcher, North Carolina.
When: June 2 – 5, 2016
Housing:
At Fletcher Academy, next to the church, there will be dorm
rooms available in the boys’ dormitory. They have beds and mattresses in them
but no towels or bedding. The cost is extremely nominal--and possibly free--for
the FAMA event.
There are also many hotels/motels available in the nearby
town of Henderson, NC. The manager of Mountain
Inn and Suites-Airport gives a discount to people who have something to do
with FAMA/Fletcher Academy. The cost will be around $80 to $90 per room with
this discount. It includes a continental breakfast with waffles, cereal, boiled
egg, yogurt, fruit, etc. We need to let the manager know by April how many
rooms will be needed.
You can check at http://www.historichendersonville.org/
for other places to stay.
If you wish to camp or park an RV see http://www.historichendersonville.org/campgrounds_rv_parks.htm
Food: The
cafeteria at Fletcher Academy serves three meals a day at very reasonable
rates. We are planning a potluck lunch for Sabbath. Usually there is enough
food left over after the potluck for supper, too.
Meetings and
registration: Registration will start on Thursday afternoon about 3 o’clock
in the church fellowship hall. There will be a welcome meeting on Thursday
evening at 7:00 p.m. Several meetings are planned for Friday and Saturday yet
leaving time to meet and visit with other missionaries. We will choose new FAMA
officers at the Saturday evening meeting. Sunday morning there will be a brief
worship and farewell meeting.
2. Things to do now:
a. Email
us an estimate of your plans for being at our Meetings in Fetcher, NC
It is very urgent that we have an estimate of how many are
coming in June. Please email Judy Harvey*
as soon as possible, before the beginning of April, and inform her of your plans
to join us.
b. Estimate which
nights you will need a room in the dorm and how many beds you will need.
c. Also estimate how
many meals you will wish to eat in the academy cafeteria.
We realize that plans do change, but at least we will have
ballpark numbers we can share with the academy. We have a registration form on
the last page that you can print and mail.
c. Invite and
encourage other missionaries, former missionaries, and interested people to
attend.
d. If you know of a
potential speaker, you or someone you’d like to hear, please contact Wil Clarke
at wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com or at
951-231-5402 as soon as possible.( I will not have access to my phone until
April 1, 2016.)
e. Fletcher is
situated in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains, so you may want to plan on
spending an extra few days for a vacation there. For starters see the
Hendersonville webpage (http://www.historichendersonville.org/)
for suggestions of attractions and activities in the area.
B. Reports
Please send any news or reports to wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com
We rely on your input for the FAMA Newsletter.
Madagascar
It seemed like de ja
vue as we stepped out of the president’s vehicle onto the campus of UAZ on
December 17, 2015. In many ways it
reminded us of stepping out onto the campus of Ikizu Seminary and Secondary
School in Tanzania in March of 1967.
School was already in progress. We had no vehicle to call our own. We
had plenty of work already laid out for us.
There were, however, also marked improvements. Instead of waiting six weeks for a letter
from home and having no phone of our own, we carried a local cell phone, and we
could use Wi-Fi internet for international communication. We settled in a comfortable, adequately
equipped home within walking distance of our classrooms. We are here as
volunteers and plan to leave when our 90 day visa runs out.
We are teaching English as a third but required language for
all university students. Most of our students are first year students. Many of them are very anxious to learn to
speak English since they perceive it to be a step toward greater opportunity in
an English dominated world economy. All
of the people are very friendly and helpful.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the founding
of Université Adventiste Zurcher in the central highlands of Madagascar. They
are celebrating by erecting a Student Center for the convenience of the several
hundred day students as well as several hundred boarding students. The university boasts a capable
well-qualified Malagasy faculty. There
are expatriate faculty from South Africa, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and
Reunion. They need native English
speakers to help the students learn to understand and speak Standard English.
We leave Madagascar in the middle of March at the end of the
first semester. The university
desperately needs a volunteer teacher or teachers for second semester (April to
August) as well as for future years. If
you would enjoy a challenging and fulfilling experience, contact UAZ via Pam
Petersen at afrikanfootprint@gmail.com today.
The university is situated at about 5,500 ft elevation, so
there is no malaria on campus. We have been taking prophylactics anyway. The most challenging and frustrating part of
volunteering is to pass the requirements of Adventist Volunteer Services in
Washington D.C. So start early and
swallow your boredom.
- Wil & Sylvia Clarke
[wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com]
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C. We Remember
1.
Rose Stickle Passed Away
Rose Stickle has been our very faithful and capable FAMA Newsletter editor for a long-long
time. I’ve heard that she has been doing this since the beginning of FAMA . We
mourn her passing, but, with her, look for a grand reunion in the arms of
Jesus.
Here is the announcement we received in November
2015.
To
all those who knew and loved Rose Stickle, our precious wife &
mother: Rose passed away late in
the evening on November 23 surrounded by ten members of her family who had
gathered for family worship at her bedside, singing and praying together,
surrounding Rose with love and music. You are invited to
join Rose’s family and friends at a memorial service this
coming Sabbath, November 28 at 3 pm. The Parksville Seventh-day Adventist
Church meets in Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 795 Island Hwy W, Parksville, B.C.
Canada (on Vancouver Island) where the service will be held.
One
of Rose’s fondest dreams was for her church family to have their own
facility. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, you consider helping her
dream come true by sending any gifts to - Parksville SDA Church Building Fund,
P. O. Box 1792, Parksville, BC V9P 1B9 Canada
Rose’s
greatest expressed desire has been to meet all those she knew and loved when
Jesus returns. What a joyful reunion that will be! Herb can be reached
at 250-248-5852, 1775 Errington Road, Errington, B.C. V0R 1V0, Canada.
Please let us know if you have any questions about travel arrangements.
Family
and friends in the area on Friday, November 27, are invited to join us for a
short graveside service at 1:30 pm at Qualicum Beach Cemetery, 687
Jones St, Qualicum Beach, B.C.
In
His Love,
-- Herb Stickle, Susan Stickle Woods,
Edwin Stickle, Barbara Stickle Hall, Ann Marie Stickle,
JaneStickle Maritz and their families.
D. Future
Features
1. We plan to attempt to continue Rose’s
excellent work until we can get a new editor/compiler/secretary. We welcome any
suggestions or volunteers. Any News Features, Stories, Experiences, etc., please
send them to wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com
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E. FAMA News
Letter e-mail address: wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com Wil Clarke
FAMA News
Letter e-mail Search:
Thank
you for sending to FAMA News Letter any email addresses for current or former
missionaries to AFRICA (and their children) who might be interested in
receiving this newsletter. Any news on your present or past
activities will help to make this newsletter interesting to others in
the FAMA family. It would be helpful if you include
information on where and when you served in Africa. African mission stories
would also be appreciated. If you do not wish to receive
the FAMA Newsletter, please let us know. - Wil
Clarke
F. Registration
Form for our Meetings in Fetcher, NC
Fellowship of Adventist Missionaries to Africa
Retreat, June 2 to 5, 2016
Fletcher SDA Church in Fletcher, North Carolina
In July 2014, we had a
wonderful time in our get together in Riverside, California. We enjoyed sharing
experiences and fellowshipping together. We are looking forward to having a
profitable time together in June 2016 and hope that you will be able to come
and join us. We are all ambassadors for Christ and His missions, and there are
still great needs in the mission field. Africa is dear to our hearts, and we
must continue to keep the needs and victories of Africa before our friends. Let
us pray earnestly and work diligently so that the missionary spirit never dies
in our churches. Please plan to come and join us at this retreat in June 2016.
Name_______________________________________________
Number in your party_______
Address_______________________________________________________________________
Home and Cell Phone
Number(s)___________________________________________________
Email_________________________________________________________________________
Registration
Fee- $10 single, or $15 per family. Registration starts at 3:00 p.m. Thursday,
June 2, 2016. The first meeting is at 7:00 p.m. These will be in the
fellowship hall of the Fletcher SDA Church in Fletcher, North Carolina.
Housing: At Fletcher Academy, next to
the church, there will be dorm rooms available in the boys’ dormitory. They
have beds and mattresses in them but no towels, pillows, or bedding. Fletcher
Academy will let us use the dorm rooms without charge for the FAMA event. But
they need to know early how many to plan for. Please plan to make a donation
for the rooms. You may contact Marcella for reservations.
Meals: The cafeteria at Fletcher Academy serves three
meals a day at very reasonable rates. We are planning a potluck lunch for
Sabbath. Usually there is enough food left over after the potluck for supper,
too. Each meal costs about $5 per person. They do not serve Sabbath breakfast.
Please register
as early as possible (by April 15) so we can give the academy a reasonable
estimate of the number of meals and number of rooms needed for their planning.
This is important.
Checks should
be made payable to “Judy Harvey”. Please send your information and check to the
FAMA Treasurer:
*Judy Harvey
1242
Ruskin Drive
Medford, OR
97504-5213
If you have
further questions, contact Judy at 541-772-0773. You
can leave your number for a call back. Email her at [brunju.harvey8@gmail.com]
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*There are
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