NEW EDITOR
Please welcome Lorna Dever as our new FAMA Newsletter editor and communications director. She was elected to this post during our FAMA meetings on the first weekend of June in Fletcher, NC. Lorna has experience running the Tryon SDA Church newsletter, also a newsletter for their Thrift Store, and creating their church bulletin. Lorna was a missionary to Malamulo in Malawi some years ago and is a member of FAMA. Please send all Newsletter items to her at the email address she provides you.
Wil Clarke, President of FAMA.
EDITOR'S NOTES
I feel it an honor to follow Rose in providing a Newsletter for each of you. My e-mail address isserendipitykids@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible and learning stories of your time in Africa that we can share with each other. I plan to stay with the same sections as Rose had, but would love to add a section on MY STORY as you each share fascinating stories from your time as a missionary in Africa. If you have a section you would like to see included feel free to suggest it. Also, with this issue I have created a mailing service through Mail Chimp in order to send a mass e-mail without having to just do a few e-mail addresses at a time to avoid landing e-mails in spam folders. I have never used this particular service, but it came with good remarks. I will be learning their design formats in the next few weeks! I wish you each God's blessing wherever you are still serving Him. Prayers, Lorna
WE HEARD FROM YOU
Thank you for another interesting FAMA newsletter. I am delighted to read about Doctors Tom and Alice Nkungula, retired, but willing to work at Matandani in Malawi. I have now known them for nearly 50 years since they were students at Avondale College in Australia with us - Bob and Joy Butler. Tom has some wonderful entertaining stories to tell of his cultural adjustments in Australia at that time. Then my husband Bob and myself worked with them in Harare from 1982-1993. They have been precious and special friends. God bless them in this new venture and we will be praying for them. Can someone please share their email address. Thank you. Joy Butler, 4th Vice President - World WCTU, Coordinator - Joy Safaris, Facebook - Women of Faith and Excellence
FAMA BUSINESS
Business meeting of the FAMA get together June 2 to 5 in Fletcher. North Carolina.
Between 35 and 40 FAMA members met in the Fetcher SDA Church June 2 to 5 in Fletcher, North Carolina USA. We wish to thank The Fletcher Church and Pastor Ivan Blake for their generous and gracious hosting of our meetings.
Decisions voted during the Saturday evening business meeting are the following:
· Next Meeting: We’ll meet in 2018 somewhere in the central part of the U.S.A. Members suggested Centralia, Missouri or Indianapolis, Indiana.
· Special thanks to Herb Stickle for Supporting Rose Stickle as the long time editor of the FAMA Newsletter. Thanks also for collecting and forwarding the membership email addresses so we could continuing distributing the Newsletter.
· Officers for the next biennium
o President: Wil Clarke
o Vice President: Charles Schlunt
o Treasurer: Bruce Harvey
o Communications Director: Lorna Dever
There was a discussion about the possibility of sending the Newsletter by U.S. Mail to members who don’t have email. We would really appreciate your contribution to this discussion! In times past there was a member who voluntarily sent copies of the Newsletter to these members and paid for it out of his/her own pocket. The name of this volunteer was not available during the discussion. Postage for the Newsletter may run as high as $1.15 per item. We currently do not have an estimate as to the number of members who would need a paper copy of the Newsletter.
Wil Clarke< wil.FAMA2016@gmail.com> |
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