BY NORMAN WETTERAU, MD
We did not have a weekend retreat last year and may not this year because our plans to bring speakers from Africa have fallen through. Our board has decided to put a special emphasis on medical missions in the next year or two.
We will publish articles on Free Methodist medical mission efforts. We are also partnering with Friends of Hope Africa in promoting the new medical building and other improvements in their health education programs. The Friends of Hope Africa board are planning some regional dinners, and our Fellowship board would like to participate in some of these. The next issue of our newsletter will have more articles on Hope Africa. Some of the articles may address current problems our Free Methodists in Africa are experiencing. We need to know what is happening.
In a second newsletter in August we will highlight some important things that are happening in our hospitals in Africa and report on a donation our board decided to give from an endowment we were given.