Weekly Update Library

May 08, 2002

Greetings, Surprises never end. A day before his departure for Europe, Mr. Carl McNair told me not to forget the WEEKLY UPDATE. Not to forget? I was under the impression that he himself was working on it. But there is more. "Tell the ministers to contact you directly if they have questions or…

May 02, 2002

Greetings, My wife returned to San Diego this week from the Chicago area, where our daughter lives with our new granddaughter. I was telling our neighbor (bragging, perhaps?) about our new granddaughter last week and he related the old story of the new mother who was struggling through a door with…

April 26, 2002

Greetings, I am happy to report that I need no longer be as "grouchy as an old bear"! My grandson (age 5) called to inform me that he had a new baby sister! My daughter Kathryn gave birth Tuesday, April 23, to April Mina, weighing 9 lbs 5 ounces. MEDIA: Dr. Meredith's newest…

April 19, 2002

Greetings, Greeting to you from a bachelor for the week—my wife left me Tuesday morning! So, if this report sounds like I am a grouchy old man with a sore toe, well, forgive me. Mr. Meredith is back in the swing of things now, after suffering the usual symptoms of jet lag. He had…

April 11, 2002

Greetings everyone, I hope that you had a great Passover season. My wife and I returned to San Diego Tuesday from New York City to find the usual backlog of e-mail and phone messages waiting. Today (Thursday) I am almost out of the hole and ready to begin what passes for a normal life in the…

March 29, 2002

Greetings everyone, This will be a brief update this week, due to the Passover activities. The office closed early Tuesday afternoon for Passover, and on Wednesday and Thursday for the Feast night and High Day. Mr. Ames, Mr. Apartian and Mr. Ehman have not yet returned from their trips to the…

March 21, 2002

Greetings, I am sure you are all very busy preparing for the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The celebration of "Passover" is in two parts. First is commemoration of the death of Christ, which He instituted as a memorial the night He was betrayed (1 Corinthians 11:23-26). We do not eat…

March 14, 2002

Greetings, We are now very near to Passover (Tuesday evening, March 26) and the Feast of Unleavened Bread March 28 through April 3rd). Some of you Pastors may have members who cannot keep the Passover on the 14th of Nisan due to circumstances beyond their control. I have consulted Joseph Kohn's…

March 07, 2002

Greetings everyone: My profound apology! For some unknown reason (unknown to me at least) the system failed to mail the Update last Friday. Debbie "sent it" Friday afternoon, but the machinery just did not cooperate, and we were not aware of the problem until Monday morning. I will add to it…

February 21, 2002

Greetings! Most Americans took last Monday off to celebrate Presidents' Day. Assuming that some of our International readers don't quite know the meaning of this special Day, I asked one of the "historians" in our office to furnish a brief explanation. Here it is: "Before 1971, Americans…

February 15, 2002

Greetings everyone: The southern California area is suffering from drought right now—San Diego County currently stands at about 28% of normal rainfall. You may have heard of the wildfires in this part of California. All members in San Diego are safe as I write, but the Fallbrook fire seriously…

February 08, 2002

Greetings everyone: I will be very brief as my time has been totally consumed with the ministerial conference and related meetings this week. Our general conference meetings were Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday was meeting day for the International Regional Directors and members of their…