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21-Aug-95

95278     MODERATORIAL REFLECTION: ABOUT NEW WILMINGTON 
 
                        by Marj Carpenter 
                Moderator, 207th General Assembly 
 
     Up in Pennsylvania every summer is something called the New Wilmington 
Mission Conference.  It began 90 years ago in the UPNAdenomination and it 
has never died.  There were about l,300 this year in attendance.  
 
      Enthusiasm always prevails.  The site had been moved to Allegheny 
College because Westminster College was undergoing improvements.  I got to 
be introduced by one of the best-loved persons in that part of the 
church...former Moderator Ken Hall. 
 
      What has always impressed me most is the large number of mission 
personnel and former mission personnel that come.  They are like one big 
family.  A lot of them worked in the areas for which the UPNA was well 
known-- Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq --tough areas for 
mission.   
 
     There were those in attendance from other places as well...but that 
hard core of former missionaries are like one big family.  And I am 
impressed every time that I am around them. God bless you. 
 
 

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