This has been a year in which we received reaction and feedback to the projects we identified and began to carry out in 1978. Projects appear viable and the task that confronts us now is to continue the projects by increasingly delegating authority and involving URANTIA Book readers who wish to work with us.

Highlights of 1979 in the areas in which in the Publications Committee functions are as follows:

URANTIA Brotherhood Bulletin. The Bulletin continues to evolve. We have begun to receive regular contributions of conference and study group news, including pictures, and articles are now being contributed. The format remains the same, but the Winter and Spring 1979 issue was the first in which professional typesetting was used. The keyline paste-up is now coordinated by the printer. Becky Marshall did this work free of charge from 1977-1979. The mailing list is over 2400.; the headquarters staff still uses several hundred additional copies in letters to readers.

Translations. URANTIA Brotherhood Bulletin and The URANTIAN Journal of URANTIA Brotherhood were translated into French for the first time. The translating was done free of charge by members of a Paris, France, study group; the project is coordinated by Carol Kostic. We are now working on ways to distribute the translated material and to add French-speaking readers to the headquarters mailing list. Consequent activities such as the ability to read and write letters in French at headquarters are being considered. Using volunteer URANTIA Book readers to translate URANTIA Brotherhood material is in the experimental stages--there is much work ahead.

Coordination and Cooperation among URANTIA Movement Publications. This is a theme which was discussed thoroughly at the 1979 Publications Workshops at Lake Geneva. This year we helped a new French newsletter get started-- several new local newsletters and journals are starting and we endeavor to keep in touch with the editors. Many have told us that the great need is for some help in knowing and understanding policies and procedures about using quotations from the book, and about references to the trademarks. We have begun work on this, and completion of the first stage, at least, of this project is a goal for the coming year. The Publications Committee has been working on material for a presentation which the chairman will make at the 1979 Fraternal Relations Committee Workshops this summer. The subject is "Publications of a Religious Organization."

The Publications Committee--Lisa Carr-Renn . Nancy Grimsley, Barbara Kulieke, Mark Kulieke, Mike Painter, and Lillian WalIin --continue to invite your comments and suggestions. Our greatest help comes from our fellows who are interested in publications as a means of disseminating the URANTIA teachings.

Submitted by, Barbara Kulieke, Chairman Publications Committee