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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1070Driya For runds At Mt. V. MeetingMethodists To BuyV%Plane For Congo UseMISSION IN AFRICA—These United Methodist ministers,shown here on mission work in Atrica, were leaders in adrive in Mt. Vernon yesterday to buy a new airplane for use in the Congo. From left are Billy Davis, Ken Enright andBishop Lance Webb.Southern Illinois United Meth- conference in Mt. Vernon.\ChiwoBelt;grf1re?To:Ththrstumlt;terim1hetheCOISpdamiW€roWlt;Sc14Suadgothodists were off and running The Rev. Kenneth Enright, al- ytThursday on a campaign to buy a missionary pilot in the ac a new Cessna 180 aircraft for Congo promoted the Bill Davis foAircraft Fund when he address- jp,At f « * A %use in the Congo.The Rev. Boyd Wagner, Wood lt;d {hi‘ conference earlier in the ScRiver, chairman of the South- sess*on- mern Illinois Conference Board Wagner indicated that the stUnited Methodist fuof Missions, said the aircraft, conierence an advance special project, will Youth arc expected to shoulder pi be flown by the Rev. Bill Davis, a major part of the responsi- pi director of the Kapanga Mis bility for raising the money.; sion Station in southern Congo U* said Mr. Enright, hero bush scpilot of numerous evacuation k flights in rebellion-torn Congo hiof Africa.The project, a minimum expenditure of $18,000, is being in the 1960s, may travel through tosponsored bv the Board of Mis- 'he conference in the fall for Hsions, whose report for 1971 v\ t a month, flying a new Cessna feadopted by the church's annu il 80 and orienting youth and fi
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Mount Vernon Register News
Mount Vernon, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 06, 1970
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