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Show Adventist Name New Leader - Purchase S. House Property By Doris Duncan Elder A. C. Fearing, former president pres-ident of the Nevada-Utah Conference Confer-ence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been transferred to the Georgia Mission. He served as head of the Nevada-Utah territory for over three years, supervising the construction in various locations loca-tions and building the mission work here considerably. Elder K. U. Osmunson, is to fill the position of President in his place. He is a native of California, having beer, born there in 1927, and is a graduate of Pacific Union College near Glendale. He has served in the Crissa, India Seventh-day Seventh-day Adventist Mission work for 11 years, and has been President of the Malayalam Mission of South India from 1936 to 1942. He was district pastor in the Kansas Conference Con-ference until 1944. and in 1947 pastored the Wichita Church in Kansas until he was called to be president of the Wyoming Conference. Confer-ence. In 1952 he became president of the Minnesota Conference, where he has served very successfully until now when he comes to us as president of the-Nevada-Utali.Con; ference. Elder and Mrs. Osmunson have two children, both of whom are missionaries. Robert L. Osmunson is the MV and Educational secretary secre-tary of the East African Union Mission, and the daughter, Mrs. Continued on Page 3) 7th-day Adventist (Continued from Page 1) Ruth L. Robinson, has been in the Belgian Congo for the past seven years, where her husband was principal of Gitwe Training School. Mr. Osmunson visited Salt Lake this past week to supervise the -purchase of properties for a new Seventh-day Adventist school and church in the Sugar House area. From, here he went to Provo to supervise property purchases there also. We heartily welcome Elder and Mrs. E. R. Osmunson to the Utah district, and wish to express our thanks to Elder Fearing for a job well done. |