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Orville H. (Ted) Fletcher(71), founder and president emeritus of the Orlando-based faith mission Pioneers, died on November 19 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. After a long and successful sales career, in the late 1970s, Fletcher started Pioneers to raise up workers for the least-reached peoples of the world. Today Pioneers has more than 500 workers from the United States, and an equal number of international members, serving in 50 countries.
Don Parrott has been named as president and CEO of Parclete, based in Mesa, Ariz., and formerly known as Parclete Mission Group. Parrott served as director of mobilization for OC International.
calendar February 8-13: Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Course hosted by the Evangelical Free Church International Mission will be held near Minneapolis, Minn. Highly interactive workshops focus on biblical application of skills in relating to one another and to host cultures. For more information, contact Gloria Van Den Bosch at [email protected], or visit www.itpartners.org
February 23-26: Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Course will be held at Gateway Missionary Training Centre in Langley, British Columbia. Cost: $175 Canadian. Room and board available for $20/day if space allows. For more details, visit www.gatewaytraining.org contact the registrar at [email protected] or call Beverly at (604) 530-4283.
March 15-18: AFMA in partnership with AIMS, CBN, and Regent University presents an Unreached Peoples Consultation entitled “Transformations” at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., featuring Gordon Robertson, founder and president of CBN Asia and vice president of CBN WorldReach. Learn how to create functional strategies for unreached people groups and plan short-term trips that will have a long-term impact from ministry professionals working in China, East Africa, Ethiopia, India, and Indonesia. Registration by March 1 is $149 and $169 after. For more information or to request a brochure, call AIMS at (757) 226-5850 or visit www.aims.org
March 15-25: Language Acquisition for Cross-Cultural Effectiveness Course will be held at Gateway Missionary Training Centre in Langley, British Columbia. This course is designed for non-specialists learning a language that has already been reduced to writing. Cost: $350 Canadian. Room and board available for $20/day if space allows. For more details, visit www.gatewaytraining.org contact the registrar at [email protected] or call Beverly at (604) 530-4283.
April 2-4: “The Journey Deepens” in Davis, Okla., is a weekend retreat for prospective missionaries with ten experienced missionaries from multiple agencies. Register online at www.TheJourneyDeepens.com or call 1-800-366-6641.
Correction The October 10, 2003, issue (p. 2) of World Pulse mistakenly printed that Kano was the largest city of Nigeria. Lagos is the largest city.— The Eds.