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2008 Wisconsin Conference Journal2008 OFFERINGS AND IN-GATHERING RESULTSINGATHERING GIVING TOTALS:Nothing But Nets collected initial pledges of• 373 flood buckets (kept in WI)$18,966 with $8,126 already given!! This means• 8,527 preemie capsthat we will be sending 1,896 bed nets to protect• 2,062 school bagspeople from malaria-carrying mosquitoes.• 223 blanketsNew pledges and offerings will continue to be• 248 ditty bags (for seafarers)encouraged and accepted!• 65 medicine chests• 42 school desks• $9,545 for shipping• $1,930 phone cards (for seafarers)• 1,194,211 pennies (our goal was onemillion) for the Global AIDS Fund ($11,942)!OFFERINGS RECEIVEDClergy in Transition Fund; Dong Bu Conference of the Korean Methodist Church...................$1,585.14Summer Developers Program; Children & Youth in WI (Rising Sun Camp) ........................... $1,723.26New Orleans – Katrina and Wiley College................................................................................$1,590.78Ministries for the East Angola Conference................................................................................$1,392.262008 RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDSCOMMISSION ON ARCHIVES AND HISTORYAWARDS FOR YEARS OF SERVICE - 200725 yearsMallothi BrownBurwellByers-DentCouncil-AustinCotterJanet EllingerDavid GuseMary KirkpatrickPatricia LyonJeffrey NicholasMartha Jackson OppeneerSusan Ott-HollandJoyce RinehartGeneva RushingRichard Strait50 YearsLowel BartelRobert BowersC. Phillip BurtCharles Edmund L.ChristopherLynn KollathFranklin KuhlmanJames McHollandBishop Donald OttWallace SpielmanNorman StevensonFred ThomasDave Warren60 YearsBryce ArmstrongKenneth EngelmanHubert GrovesJohn ThompsonC. James Weis71 YearsMarvin A. Shilling72 YearsOrville McKay73 YearsSolomon G. Kramer346 Offerings, Awards and Recognitions