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News and Web site updates - August 2009 BULLETIN

Unconfirmed reports say Clyde Kilough and Richard Thompson resigning from UCG council of elders
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/clyde-kilough-richard-thompson-resigning-from-ucg-council.html

Lead Articles

List of Feast of Tabernacles sites for 2009 from The Journal
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/the-journal-lists-feast-of-tabernacles-sites-for-2009.html

United Church of God elder reports on recent general conference
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/ucg-elder-reports-on-general-conference.html

UCG elders sound off and ask hard questions at recent conference
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/ucg-elders-sound-off-and-ask-hard-questions-at-conference.html

United Church of God Elders approve $24 million dollar budget http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/churchwide-discipleship-theme-for-ucg-elders-conference.html

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Feature Articles

Ross Jutsum's circuit takes him out of town 40 weekends every year.
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/circuit-takes-ross-jutsum-out-of-town-forty-weekends-a-year.html

Web Site now averaging 10,000 daily visitors
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/web-site-averaging-10k-daily-visitors.html

Commentaries, Columns and Essays

Escape from this perverse generation by Dave Havir http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/escape-from-this-perverse-generation.html

Take it from a retired meat cutter, iron sharpens iron by Gerald Gill
http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue135/take-it-from-a-retired-meat-cutter-iron-sharpens-iron.html

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Letters, Notes and Quotes, Life Events View Issue 135: Letters to Editor, Notes & Quotes and Life Events Page
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