What a week! CFCI held it's semi-annual International Board of Commissioners meeting in Omaha on Monday and Tuesday - Oct. 29-30. Board members started arrive over the previous weekend so we had lots of airport runs and fun entertaining to start off the week.
We were expecting three of our base directors to join us in Omaha for the meeting. Unfortunately, two of them had problems getting VISAs, so were not able to participate. We did, however, welcome the Arruda family and their missionary friend, Brad Miller, to our time together. The Arrudas (Paulo, his wife Eloina, and their son, Paulo) are our base directors in Manaus, Brazil. It was great to have them with us for five days! They made special presentation about their specific Manaus ministries (which are completely awesome) to the Board. They shared with us that they are making plans to build a second ministry building in another area of Manaus. Praise God!
We also welcomed two new Board members - Tudor Williams and John Wilton. While the Board of Commissioners had much business to conduct, we also managed to have some fun and show off Omaha. The group spent one afternoon with Brenda Banks at her ministry called the Cross Training Center. The CTC's goal is to provide life skills, vocational training and job experience for disadvantaged and undereducated men and women. Thank you, Brenda!
Also joining us for the meetings were our Midwest base directors: Jay Dahlhauser and Renato Jiminez from Storm Lake, Iowa; Steve Clinkscales from Des Moines, Iowa; Mark and Karen Pomeroy and Melanie Dehning from Lincoln, Nebraska; and Sheryl Gehrls from Omaha. The U.S. base directors made presentations to the Board about their base activities and goals.
Yes, we are all a little tired now...but we're also re-energized for what God has in store for us in the next six months!
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