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Craig Lent has appointed Ron Gouveia as the new principal branch coordinator for the Oahu branch. Ron began a six-year term on October 15, 2015.

 

Trinity Academy in Portland began its fifth year in September with 59 students in grades 6 to 12, up from 46 last year, and a faculty and staff of 21. Trinity Academy joins The Wilberforce School in Princeton, NJ, as a Trinity Member School.

 

The community’s board of governors elected Craig Lent to a second term as overall coordinator of the People of Praise on June 11.

 

Pope Francis is known for his openness to the Spirit, his emphasis on evangelism and his embrace of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals. A little-known story about Cardinal Francis George, who died on April 17, reveals that he too was open to the Spirit and to graces from other Christian denominations.

 

Eleven men and nine boys drove out of Kingston on a Friday evening in early May for a weekend packed with games, singing, prayer, laughter and brotherhood in the lush foothills north of the city. Buildings gave way to banana plantations, cattle and dirt roads as the group approached their destination—River Edge, a camp and retreat center located in a vibrant green valley with a small river winding through it. These campouts started more than 20 years ago as father-son events, but this year six of the nine boys came through branch members’ friendship with the sisters of a local Missionaries of Charity outreach.

 

Jeanne Ireland (Cross) DeCelles passed away on April 17, 2015, after a prolonged illness, surrounded by her loving and compassionate husband, Paul, and many devoted family members and friends.