On a recent trip to the Philippines for a leadership conference and meeting fellow members of the KADIWA organization, young member Hannah Limon saw the vast scope of the Church Of Christ around the world and her place in it. She reflects on how the leadership of Brother Eduardo V. Manalo inspires her to care and lead the youth in her region.
Despite the challenges of distance learning, especially for a hands-on program like agriculture, Santa Maria Joint Union High School District’s agriculture students won awards and.
SAN JOSE, Calif. â While King George VI visited victorious Allied troops in Normandy 10 days after they drove the Nazis off French beaches, Wilton Johnson of Menlo Park, California, marched north on the peninsula toward his next mission past tall hedgerows on war-torn roads with the faint rat tat tat of gunfire in the distance.
As part of a machine gun platoon for the 82nd Airborne Division, Johnson and his men â just hours after landing in France during the historic Normandy Invasion â attacked a roadblock set up near the German-occupied town of Sainte-Mère-Ãglise.
They took the town and Johnson was photographed in front of the town s church. Then more danger lurked, as he and his squad walked in drainage ditches next to a road amid the thuds of artillery in the distance.