OFFICE NOTES

 

There is excitement around our house over my proposed trip to Geneva, Switzerland to attend a conference of the confessional families of the World Council of Churches. The World Convention of Churches of Christ has been invited to have some observers there, and since they wanted someone from the non-instrument Churches of Christ to sit in on it, they have invited me. I will fly from New York with Bob Fife of Milligan College, who is both a dear friend and a fellow concerned one in the work of unity and fellowship. Following the conference I plan to visit “Campbell country” in Scotland and Ireland, including where old Uncle Alex was born, schooled, taught school, attended college, and, later in life, jailed. I want to see the old Presbyterian church where Thomas Campbell was pastor, which is in Ahorey, Ireland, which now has a bell tower, built by American disciples, in his honor. I also have a clergyman friend, a kind of pen pal I have never met, in strife-torn Londonderry, who will give me a firsthand report on all that has transpired there. And of course I’ll be in touch with a number of our own folk along the way. I plan to report to you in detail on this significant experience. This will keep me in Europe through most of December, but, the Lord willing, I’ll be home in time for Christmas.

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