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Executive Vice President Report

Author: Doug Holland


Edition: Model Aviation - 2007/11
Page Numbers: 154

154 MODEL AVIATION
THE FOLLOWING story is true and
comes from a daily publication called God
Issues Today written by Dr. James C.
Denison, Pastor of Teaching at the Park
Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
To subscribe, visit the church’s Web site
at www.godissues.org/.
“In 1870 the Church of the United
Brethren in Christ in Indiana was holding its
Annual Conference. At one point in the
proceedings, the president of the college
where they were meeting said, ‘I think we
are living in a very exciting age.’
“The presiding bishop asked him, ‘What
do you see for the future?’ The college
president responded, ‘I believe we are
coming into a time of great inventions. I
believe, for example, that men will fly
through the air like birds.’
“The bishop said, ‘That’s heresy! The
Bible says that flight is reserved for the
angels. We’ll have no more such talk here.’
“When the Annual Conference was over,
Bishop Wright went home to his two small
sons. Their names were Orville and Wilbur.”
A-B-C: Always Be Courteous.
Until later …
Doug Holland
3517 Fernwood Dr.
Raleigh NC 27612
Home: (919) 787-5163
Work: (919) 787-7454
Executive Vice President
Doug Holland; [email protected]

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