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Show Vast Area Served By Belgium Center By JACK E. JARRARD Church News Traveling Editor LIEGE, BELGIUM The Church Distribution Center for the areas of the French and Church is located in this historic Belgian Mission. city and is in the Franco-Belgiaand other forms supplies are Literature, translated and shipped to prepared, France, Holland, Luxembourg, the eastern sector of the Canadian Mission and into French Polynesia in the South Pacific. Translators of materials work out of their homes in Paris and Utrecht, Holland, said Charles Didier, director of the center. The work undergoes two reviews, one in the local area for the correction of the language and the other in Salt Lake City to make sure there are no doctrinal errors. "We try to do everything here, and on the whole we do a pretty good job, said Mr. Didier, who speaks French, Dutch, English and German fluently. He has 15 people working at the center and already the work load has become too great for the facilities. The Church plans to build a facility next year which will house the present operations and also have enough space to keep the supplies, which are kept in a separate warehouse, on shelves for shipment. "We stock all types of brochures, pamphlets, doctrinal books and records and reports here. We have about 100,000 units of the different kinds of supplies on hand now, Mr. Didier said. He is a graduate of the University of Liege with a degree in economics. Before he joined the center he was a sales manager for a Belgian lumber firm. He was named manager of the center on Jan. 1, Dutch-speakin- g n 1968. Ground floor of this building houses the distribution center for the Church in French and areas. Dutch-speaki- ng Director of the Liege facility Charles Didier. is 6 CHURCH WEEK ENDING JULY 26, 1969 He joined the Presiding Bishoprics Office in 1967 and was an assistant to John E. Carr, director of the Translations Service Department, in Frankfurt, Germany. Richard Dachy, director of supplies, fills an order. He was baptized in 1957 and his wife is Lucy Lodomi, a former missionary. They have two sons, 6 and 7. Mohique Van Volksom. Alexandre Secretin, printing director, watches. |