This time, we've got two news stories to share with you guys this week:
3 Seventh-day Adventist families are Montana plane crash victims
Source: Adventist News Network
Three Seventh-day Adventist families are among the 14 victims killed in a March 22 airplane crash in Butte, Montana. All three families were members or regular attendees at congregations in Northern California; the three husbands were longtime friends who attended both church-owned Pacific Union College and Loma Linda University.
While the Butte Coroner's office has not yet officially released the names of the victims, media reports and family members confirm Dr. Erin Jacobson, an ophthalmologist; his wife, Amy Feldkamp Jacobson, a dental hygienist; and children Ava, 3, and Taylor, 4, and Jude, 2, were among the victims. The Jacobson's resided in St. Helena, California.
Here are two upcoming GYC-sponsored events. Check 'em out!
Pentecost²
When: March 20-28, 2009
Where: Southern Adventist University - Collegedale, TN
Website: www.seyc.org
Speaker: David Asscherick
ACTS for Christ - Youth Training Conference 2009
When: April 9-12, 2009
Where: Edmonton, Alberta
Website: www.actsforchrist.org
Speakers: Steven Conway, Lyle Cesar, Angelo Grasso, Ty Gibson
According to the Florida Conference, "there will be no meetings, seminars, etc. held on the Forest Lake Academy campus and no camping or accommodation facilities."¹ Instead, the 2009 Florida Conference Camp Meeting (May 22-23) will be a "satellite/internet-only event, not held at Forest Lake Academy."² This is in an "effort to address financial shortfalls" from the bad economy.
In the past, conference members would gather at Forest Lake Academy to attend the different events across the campus. But this year, the plan is for everyone to meet at local churches and watch the programs via satellite or Internet.
Florida Conf. has not yet said where this virtual camp meeting will be broadcast from or whether this arrangement will be permanent or just for this year. They did say, however, that "there's discussion that this format may possibly be well-suited as a long-term new effort."³
Looks like we'll have to wait and see how it'll turn out! For more info as it becomes available visit www.floridaconference.com/campmeeting/
¹Camp meeting page. ²Twitter reply. ³Twitter tweet
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