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Susan_2
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Username: Susan_2
Post Number: 1704
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 8:30 am: |     |
Once again my Proclamation! was in the mail. Time sure flys as I hadn't realized it was time for another yet. Anyway, it's an interesting issue. I would like to read more articles by and about Kenneth Brantley. The little in there by his is wonderful. Does he have more publications outor even a website? The article about the changes the SDA hymnals have about the changes in the songs is very interesting. I now want to get a SDA hymnal and a Lutheran hymnal and do my own comparison. I do know there is an entire section in the Lutheran humnal on the Trinity and another section on Penticost. One thing that is (I think) unique to the Lutherans is an annual celebration called Refermation Day and on Refermation Sunday we sing songs from the
Lutheran hymnal acknowledging this event in Christian hitrophy. My favorite section in the Lutheran hymnal is the section of funeral songs. They almost all are so positive with praising God for giving us eternal life at our death with Him. Several years ago at church I thought I knew a particular song by heart so I put the hymnal down to sing by memory. I then noticed everyone else was singing different words than I was so I got out the hymnal and went to the song and sure enough the others were singing the correct words and I wasn't. I felt so scamed. My letter to the editor is in it. I guess I can now say I've been published. (Ha! Ha!) I always enjoy and receive a blessing from my friend Pat Darnall. I like the stories of freedom, too. Thanks, once again for the magazine. It is such a blessing to read and to learn from. |
Heretic
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Username: Heretic
Post Number: 18
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 9:58 am: | |
How does one go about obtaining a subscription to Proclamation? |
Randyg
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Username: Randyg
Post Number: 20
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 10:10 am: | |
Email Colleen or Dale Ratzlaff.They will be very helpful. |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 458
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 1:52 pm: | |
Heretic, email your name and address to proclamation@gmail.com
Susan, we were able to figure out that that one letter was written by you, by the things it said. 
Jeremy |
Susan_2
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Username: Susan_2
Post Number: 1706
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 3:06 pm: | |
I thought you all would be able to figure it out. I'm currently as happy as a bug in a rug as I am spending the day babysitting my baby grandchildren. I really like being a grandma. I'll sure miss these little ones when they move. They have one more year within driving distance to where I live. They will then be living either in Guam or Hawaii for the next three years and then the following three years the other place, either Guam or Hawaii. I go back and forth between here and Hawaii alot so even though the grandchildren will be on a different island than where my other children live the airplane companys over there have fairly inexpensive island-hopping flights. But, Guam! That's way over there. I looked it up on the globe. I just can't see myself running off to Guam very often. Did you know the biggest K-Mart in the world is in Guam? That's really the only thing I know about Guam. K-Mart owns some airlines that leave daily from Tokyo to Guam. The customers get cheep airfare because the K-Mart bus picks them up at the airport in Guam and takes them to K-Mart. The people get to buy lots of stuff and they get back on the K-Mart airplane and fly back to Tokyo. Sounds like a big hassle just to go shopping but from what I understand it is well worth it as the prices in Tokyo are outrageouselly expensive and there are many Japanese from Tokyo who do this several times per year. That's it for sharing useless information today. |
Tracey
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Username: Tracey
Post Number: 302
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 12:06 pm: | |
LOL!
You're so silly Susan..
Myhigh school boyfriend joined the Navy and ended up on Guam..
There's my useless info. to add to yours!
: ) |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 91
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:14 pm: | |
Susan_2, my sister and her husband lived on Guam for about 7 years? and I have a nephew and his wife living there now.
Richard
PS: so much for all this useless information. |
Tisha
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Username: Tisha
Post Number: 8
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:19 pm: | |
I spent one summer on Guam and Saipan over 40 years ago! It was so beautiful and unspoiled then.
I stayed with friends on Guam that lived in caves because their house had blown away in a typhoon. They overlooked the bay and it was just the most beautiful place to live.
On Saipan we lived in an old Military Compound that we converted into living quarters. The main building was the kitchen, living room, dining hall and classroom, as well as the bedroom for my Aunt and Uncle who I was staying with. We had a bathhouse and a dormatory for all 9 of us kids. We had pinapples, bananas, papayas, coconuts, etc all growing in groves. We had help that would go out and pick whatever we wanted for dinner! I did get cravings for a nice crispy apple though! And fresh milk was unheard of. We baked our own bread. We were vegetarian and were pretty self-sufficient. Our pets were frogs and geckos! We would take an old landing craft to Tinian to snorkel in the deep, blue water over there. There were the remains of an old runway from the war. The "booney" had overgrown leftover bunkers and other buildings from the war that were in disrepair. There were also some old carvings and statues that no one could remember what they were for or who had made them. The beaches were unspoiled and beautiful. There was no commerce at all. I get sad thinking how spoiled it all is now!
Anyway - just adding to the Guam "talk"! |
Susan_2
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Username: Susan_2
Post Number: 1720
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 2:04 pm: | |
Wow! What a small world. Tracey, did you ever get to visit you h.s. boyfriend while he was over there? Ricard, are going going to go visit your nephew? And, Tsha, it sounds like a wonderful experience you had. Maybe now I'll have the urge to save to visit my son and his family while they are over there. I just can't immagine going three years without being with my grandchildren! |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 95
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 3:10 pm: | |
I'd love to visit my nephew in Guam. My sister, his mother is over there for 3 weeks because her dil is pregnant and having a difficult time of it.
Richard |
Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 139
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 3:43 pm: | |
Praying for your niece Richard!
helovesme2 |
Agapetos
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Username: Agapetos
Post Number: 18
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:31 pm: | |
Hi Susan!
I live with my wife Yoko in Osaka, Japan. If you ever make it up here, let us know! And actually, yes, to any other formers out there, my wife and I welcome you! We don't know so many here in Japan. Oh, you can contact me through my webpage (my email address should be in there somewhere...) http://fulfilledinjesus.blogspot.com/
Guam? I went there once on a company trip. The part we went to was almost exclusively for Asian tourists... goodness, I didn't need to speak English there! It seemed like Japan. The prices there, though, were outrageous... I felt they were really ripping off the tourists. However, two of us did sneak our way over to that huge K-Mart (didn't know it was the biggest in the world at the time... can't say it left an impression, either) and we went to the mall & feasted on a Belgian waffle at Denny's. Mmm! God is good! (^_^)
Blessings in Him,
Ramone |
Susan_2
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Username: Susan_2
Post Number: 1764
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 12:18 am: | |
Ramone, my family is military. They will live on the base. BTW, what language do the people speek? |
Michael
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Username: Michael
Post Number: 2
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:57 am: | |
Susan_2,
The answer to your question in: English. The native Guamanians are Chamorros and the native language is Chamorro. Some of the older folks on the island still speak it but it is slowly becoming extinct because the young people are not perpetuating its use.
The island is "American" in almost every respect but has influences from all over the Westener Pacific, including Japan. Guam is a major tourist destination for the Japanese.
Your family will have access to most ANYTHING that you could find here and very inespensive items from Asia. Best yet, there was no sales tax when I was there. That could have changed in seventeen years.
I served as a student missionary with Adventist World Radio-Asia on Guam. I attended Southern College at the time and did it as part of my broadcasting education. This was all LONG before leaving Adventism.
If you have any other questions about Guam, I'd be happy to answer them, as best I can.
Mike |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 116
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:25 am: | |
Michael, I had a relative who was on Guam for some years about that period of time. Their last name was Holm and worked as a doctor at the hospital/clinic. Do you happen to remember them?
Richard
rtruitt@mac.com |
Belvalew
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Username: Belvalew
Post Number: 352
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 1:14 pm: | |
Welcome to FAF, Michael. Please let us hear more about you.
Belva |
Susan_2
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Username: Susan_2
Post Number: 1777
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 2:30 pm: | |
Michael, I have heard there is a very large SDA presence in Fuam. Is there any truth to that? Are there SDA schols there for the children (Oh, I hope not.)? |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 118
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:09 pm: | |
Susan_2, yes there are a number of SDA churches (not sure how many but at least two) and schools on the island. There is also an Adventist Hospital there where I have a relative working currently. I've never been there but there is a fairly large SDA population present.
Richard
rtruitt@mac.com |
Michael
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Username: Michael
Post Number: 4
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 5:30 pm: | |
Hello to All,
I sent a specific note to Richard but to answer others, I didn't recognize the individual he referred to. My wife's and my stories are in the "stories sections. Michael & Rebecca L., check them out. It lets you know a bit about us. I'll include the email address for those who might care to know more.
To answer other questions, there were four small churches, varying in degrees of conservatism. There was also a K-12 school on the island at that time. The SDA church operated a clinic but there is an actual island run hospital for inpatient needs. The clinic was strictly outpatient but covered many things including Family practice, OB/GYN, Dentistry, and others. The Guam/Micronesian mission is also run from Guam so there is that contingent as well as AWR-Asia on the island. So there is/was a prominent SDA presence on the island.
I was there the school year of 1987-1988, seventeen years can make a difference and I could not speak to how things might be now. I hope this has been helpful.
Thanks for the welcome.
Mike
ramlorey@mac.com |
Speakeasy
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Username: Speakeasy
Post Number: 219
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 8:05 pm: | |
Who do I email about my new address to make sure i still recieve the Proclamation newsletters ?
speakeasy
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Speakeasy
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Username: Speakeasy
Post Number: 220
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 8:06 pm: | |
Sorry I saw the address above thanks |
Speakeasy
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Username: Speakeasy
Post Number: 221
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 8:06 pm: | |
Sorry I saw the address above.
Thanks |
