Church of God 7th Day Donates $12,132.73 to LifeNets for Sri Lanka Tsunami Reconstruction Posted September 22, 2005 www.lifenets.org I was invited as a fraternal delegate to the Church of God 7th July 2005 Conference in Denver, Colorado.  My friend Bill Hicks who is General Conference Ministries director and I keep in regular contact with each other. On the ministerial side of things we cover some of the same ground around the world, namely in Ukraine where we interface with some of the same people....also in Malawi, India and Kachinland.  The Church of God has a Disaster Relief Fund that is administered by Bill Hicks. They wished to donate it to an area that needed help with tsunami relief, but wanted the aid to go through those of the same faith. None of the areas of the hard-hit tsunami damage had any of their members. They saw on our LifeNets website that we had started an initiative to rebuild in Sri Lanka through Kevin and Sonali Fiske. Bill Hicks called me and offered to give their Tsunami disaster relief money to LifeNets.  In addition, he invited me to come to Denver as a fraternal delegate at their conference.  It was a wonderful experience. I was able to attend some of the helpful workshops. I had also met people I hadn't seen in years.  A public presentation of the donation was made Thursday evening July 7th by President Whaid Rose.  I was greatly moved by the generosity.  They money will go to build several more homes in phase two of our Tsunami Reconstruction project that you can read about at www.lifenets.org/tsunami or www.lifenets.org/tsunami/blog.htm. Again, we give a heartfelt thanks to the Church of God 7th Day for their donation, but also for their friendship and kindness! Victor Kubik Bill Hicks and Victor Kubik at the GC Ministries booth at the Conference Thanking the General Conference for the donation to LifeNets Albert Adamson Tembo from Malawi along with Ivan Senina, a Ukrainian from Portland, OR. Both are pastors With Church of God 7th leader Calvin Burrell At the pastor's luncheon Bill and Debbie Hicks with Victor Kubik