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October 29, 1999 Editon

PLAY TIME FOR ALL AGES Photo by Tita Parham Kelsey, 3, left, and her brother, Colby, 2, get a chance to play under the trees at the Life Enrichment Center during the Discipleship Weekend event in September. Play time for all ages was just one part of the annual training event.   Full Story United Methodist Children's Home faces major cutbacks      A three-year decline in the number of estate gifts given to the Florida United Methodist Children's Home has left trustees with a $500,000 budget shortfall for 1999 and the task of making cuts in the budget without reducing the number of children the home can accommodate.      Since 1991, the home has been receiving an average of about $1 million per year in undesignated estates. Two years ago, the bottom fell out, and that giving dropped by two-thirds. The next year it was down by three-quarters. This year the children's home will get less than a quarter of what they used to get. Full Story Delegates prepare for conferences      The Florida Conference's delegates to the 2000 United Methodist General and Southeastern Jurisdictional conferences met Oct. 2 in Leesburg to discuss issues they will deal with at the denomination's global conference in Cleveland, Oh., next April and the jurisdictional meeting in July.               They also met to nominate a Florida Conference candidate for the office of Bishop.      The Rev. Dr. Richard J. "Dick" Wills, pastor of Christ Church United Methodist in Ft. Lauderdale, was nominated by the delegates after a time of worship, discernment and prayer, according to the Rev. Jim Harnish, chairman of the conference's elections procedures committee and pastor of Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa. Full Story Expo offers singles chance to get out "Many singles say, 'It's so hard to motivate myself to get out of the house,' " said Arlene Shannon, director of the Florida Conference Single Adult Leadership Team (SALT) and director of singles ministries at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Orlando.     Despite that fact, nearly 275 single adults from different denominations and as far away as Texas and Indiana were motivated to attend the "Adventures in Orlando" Singles Expo Oct. 1-3. Full Story Get it in Print - send story ideas on local church news to  Tita Parham  or  Michael Wacht  online.

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