A brother pulled me aside at church a few months ago. "What's up with us? Why can't the ICOC put up a real website?" All I could do was shake my head. The Catholics, Mormons, Baptists, Methodists, not to mention every other organization out there has a free website that informs the public who they are and what their mission is. We must be the largest organization in the world that literally charges people to go to our flagship

FROM THE SAN DIEGO CHURCH WEBSITE...It has been a long two and a half days in the San Diego area. Fires have surrounded San Diego burning to the north, east and south of the city. At one point every major freeway leading out of San Diego has been closed or gridlocked. The fires have burned over 263,000 acres and destroyed over 1,750 homes and businesses. Over one million people have been evacuated from their homes and more than 75,000 people have been placed in temporary shelters across the county.

Editor Calls Article a "Mistake"...

We heard from John Markowski of the Los Angeles Church of Christ that the editor of the "Daily Trojan" has apologized for the article it ran 10 days ago

(http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15799coll104/searchterm/Vol.!2007

The 30 sisters of the Durban Church of Christ had +- 80 in attendance for their women's night. Virginia Lefler from Chicago was their guest speaker, author of "A gentle and quiet spirit". Since the decision to have a women's night in Durban was a last minute decision, as Virginia was speaking in other South African churches that same week. The sisters only had a few weeks to prepare and invite visitors for the event. We applaud how God blessed their faith and zeal and look forward to much spiritual fruit coming from that event.

Even School Officials Call Article "Incorrect" and "Misleading".....

Our Opinion: The "Daily Trojan" Got it Way Wrong....

Check it out at http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/index.html

Members of the Accra, Ghana, International Church of Christ, (Accra Christian Church) on Thursday presented 22 bags of rice and several bags of used clothes for flood victims of the Northern regions of Ghana.
	http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/200710/9616.asp

For our International readers, Virginia Tech University was the site of the worst mass shooting in US history in April of this year.  Tanner Versage, a student at VT, writes about the campus, new disciples, and the heightened interest in spiritual matters...                                   

                                                                                                

Here are the dates for the upcoming international conferences to be hosted by ICOC churches...