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The Century, Florida, camp meeting began on Sunday, July 23, with a good turnout from the Apostolic Faith churches in the southern and eastern United States. Bob Downey, Director of North America Work, and his wife, Cheryl, are there representing Portland, and have written that they enjoyed a great time with the saints on the first day of the camp meeting. They sent the following report:
The Sunday morning...
The 2017 Philippines youth camp was held May 29 through June 2 at the Bagong Sikat headquarters church. The theme was “Take Wisdom: Fear God, Be Wise, Live Accountably.” The 151 campers were divided into ten groups and occupied sleeping quarters in the wings of the new church building.
The youth camp began with an opening session, during which the campers’ anticipation was expressed. The session ended with a torch lighting processional (pictured above) led by Jed...
Special meetings were held at the Apostolic Faith Church in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, the weekend of May 21. The guest speakers were Robert Downey, Director of North America Work, who attended with his wife, Cheryl, and Chris Hewlett, District Superintendent of Canada Work, who attended with his wife, Pat. Other visitors came from Edmonton, Calgary, and Grand Prairie, Alberta; and Kitchener, Ontario.
A highlight of the special meetings was the thanksgiving expressed for...
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John Musgrave continued visiting locations in Romania this past week, accompanied by Ted Bora and Gheorghei Macovei. They made several more church and home visits near Pascani in northeastern Romania before traveling to the western and then southwestern borders to visit some of our churches in those areas.
Brother John wrote with more information...
The annual Apostolic Faith camp meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, took place this year from April 9 to 23. For one month prior to its beginning, the Zambia saints had special prayer that the government would grant approval for the services to be held and that God would be present in both the preparations and the camp meeting itself. God abundantly answered those prayers.
A two-day workers’ meeting took place April 6-8, to help the camp...
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The saints in Melbourne, Australia, marked a new milestone when they held their first children’s church service on Sunday evening, June 4.The day started with Sunday school, which had been expanded in recent months to include an eighth grade through high school class. These students took their lesson from our Answer curriculum and studied how to pray, using The Lord’s Prayer as a guideline.
Sam...
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John Musgrave, Director of Romania Work, left for Bucharest on Tuesday. Since his arrival, he has been traveling with Gheorghei Macovei and Ted Bora, the Eastern and Western Romania District Superintendents respectively, participating in church services and making home visits.
On Wednesday, they enjoyed an evening service at our Bucharest church where Brother Gheorghei is the pastor. At this location, the congregation is anticipating the completion of a new church building...