Fred Garmon and Dieter and Hildegard Knospe

In the fall, I attended the leadership conference for our denomination in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting was held October 7-11, in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary.

This year's conference had three highlights:

• Our guest speaker was Dr. Fred Garmon, president of People for Care and Learning. Fred and I were in our doctoral program together at Regent, and we have enjoyed each other's friendship over the years. Fred taught on leadership development - which is his area of specialty - and did a great job.
• Celebration of the ministry of Dieter and Hildegard Knospe who will retire at the upcoming General Assembly. Besides gifts for the Knospes, various representatives from our field area spoke words of appreciation on behalf of the entire audience. 
• 10-year anniversary of the Church of God in Hungary. Actually the Church of God in Hungary goes all the way back to the 1920s and '30s. However, with the help of the Nazi regime and the war, and the communist government that followed, this initial COG denomination disintegrated. In 1999, a new start began with missionary Csaba Tenkeley and today we have 25 congregations.
  

This year's conference had its usual share of representatives from Germany, Austria, Norway, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia (including Siberia, too), Ukraine, and Hungary.

Tom and Claudia Rosson
President – ETSM
Projection Number 0610004

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