* Bibles for the World (BFW) is moving and restructuring. The organization, founded in 1972 by Rochunga Pudaite, will move to Colorado Springs in August from its headquarters in Carol Stream, Illinois. While Pudaite, 68, will remain president, the BFW board has appointed his son John L. Pudaite, 35, to be vice president responsible for daily operations. In addition, Partnership Ministries, a division of BFW primarily in northeast India, has become a separate organization with its own operations and personnel.
* The Common Global Ministries Board, a new mission agency of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, has requested that the World Council of Churches not hold its 1998 global assembly in Zimbabwe. The board criticized Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for making “several public attacks on Zimbabwean gays and lesbians” and suggested the assembly, held every seven years, instead be shifted to South Africa, “where homosexual civil rights are constitutionally protected.”
* Eugene B. Habecker has been elected chair of the executive committee of the United Bible Societies, an international organization with 120 members that distributed 17 million Bibles last year. Habecker will continue as president of the American Bible Society in New York.
* Arlington Heights, Illinois, dentist Larry Ebert was killed in a car wreck in Ghana June 28 while delivering dental supplies and pharmaceutical equipment on a mission trip. Ebert, 48, had been leading a 14-member team of African Partners, a ministry of the Navigators. Ebert had been on five medical missions to Africa.
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