February, 2001

Dear Friends,

Since the real new millennium begins this year, the Huguenot Fellowship is happy to introduce its new look. We hope you like our more colorful format. Nothing essential has changed, though, in the goals and mission of this work. We continue to look for ways to support the Reformed Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, as well as certain adjunct ministries.

We do have a couple announcements to make. First, the Trustees have unanimously elected Dr Peter Lillback to be Vice President. Senior Minister at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, Peter has been tireless in his efforts to move us forward. Second, we now have a web site! Be sure to visit. It can be found at www.huguenotfellowship.org. Thanks to the excellent work of a friend of the Fellowship it is particularly well constructed, including music, literature about the Huguenots, and, of course, a way the visitor can become involved. Third, we have a new brochure. Most of you on our regular mailing list have received it already. If you would like to have more, to give to friends, just let us know.

Third, and most striking, we have launched the James Montgomery Boice Chair of Practical Theology to be inaugurated as soon as the funds are in. To be specific, we will need $750,000 in order to generate an income that will pay the appropriate professor’s salary and the employer’s taxes. So far, that is, since October, 2000, we have raised 10% of the amount. That is most encouraging, but we have a long way to go. We went public with this project on Reformation Day, in a marvelous service at the Proclamation Church. Pierre Berthoud, Principal of the Seminary, preached, the Genevans sang, and Elizabeth Boice, James and Linda’s daughter, was there to receive the dedication. Now, our Development Committee is hard at work figuring out ways to complete the funding of the Chair. If you would like to contribute to this fund, be sure to earmark the memo on your check “Boice Chair.” We are hoping to fund it without diminishing our regular, annual obligations. Be generous! And many thanks!

Very Truly Yours,

William Edgar, President