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District Minister’s Conference

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Once a year the ministers of the Wisconsin District gather together to meet, discuss and take care of business. Some of the business takes the form of voting to fill departmental positions. Some of the business is of the form of receiving preaching and encouragement. Then there is the fellowship and especially for me, there is the opportunity to encourage my fellow pastors to send in reports of the good things that God is doing in their areas and congregations.

Most positions in the UPCI are voted in for two years at a time. This year was mostly the departmental secretary votes. We were very blessed to have Bro. Paul Mooney, our Assistant General Superintendent, as our overseeing representative from Headquarters. The votes were as follows:

Bro. E.A. Kaske (District Secretary)
Bro. Richard Kielley (Home Missions Director)
Bro. Dale Pace (Sunday School Secretary)
Bro. Tim Vik (Youth Secretary)
Sis. Aloma Turner (Ladies Secretary)
Bro. Frank Tamel (Appeals Committee Nominee)

I was excited to hear that in our district, we now have a total of 94 churches, daughter works, home missions works and Spanish works. Praise God! We are on track for 100 churches by the end of 2010.

The Wisconsin district also supports a missionary of their own. Bro. and Sis. Smith from Madison are missionaries to the island of Antigua. They are supported by the district and one of their fundraisers is a pledge offering taken up at the conference. In this time of financial uncertainty, it was wonderful to see folks stepping out in faith to pledge funds for the Smiths. In the space of less than five minutes, just over twenty four thousand dollars was pledged to the work in Antigua. There is no lack in the economy of God!