The International Fellowship Committee participated in the General Conference at Green Lake, Wisconsin for the week of August 11-17, 1984. We had two panels -one directed by Martin Peng who asked the participants' answers to the group of questions prepared by the Montreal, Canada group. The other panel was directed by Mary Snider. Geri Johnson from Saudi Arabia told of the people, their religion and customs. Ralph and Betty Zehr - who had lived in Africa for 3 years - shared some slides and told of their experiences in that Country. Avi and Lila Dogim -one born in Israel and the other in Russia, shared some of their knowledge and answered many questions. Deborah Foster ended the too-short meeting with a touching true story. We surely have lots to learn about the people of this planet! Andre des Bois-Francs was our International speaker at the Conference.

John Hales and I flew to Paris, France September 18-25, 1984 and stayed at the home of Jacques DuPont. We met with approximately 30 readers of The URANTIA Book and had some great discussions. We hope communications were improved and we feel confident loving fellowship was enjoyed. Bob and Adele Plamondon were visiting from Montreal and they were a great help with translating. Henry and Balk Beggemann came from the Netherlands; Fernand DeVinck from Belgium; Gene Royer from southern France, and Nigel Hornby, from Sweden, in addition to local people.

Final checking is now being done on the five brochures in French and Spanish. Three will be done in Mexico - in Spanish - and the French- will be done in Chicago. The two owned by the Foundation will be done in Chicago, in both Spanish and French. Hopefully these will be available sometime this year.

The "Selection Committee" - Douglas Fraser, Richard Prince and Martin Myers -selected the translating company to translate The URANTIA Book into Spanish and the Andite Corporation was formed as a subsidiary of URANTIA Foundation. The Finance Committee of the URANTIA Brotherhood has raised the funds necessary for the printing and final plans for the translation should be worked out in the near future.

The International Fellowship Committee met in Los Angeles February 15-18, 1985 at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina Hotel. Ronald Louie from Vancouver, B.C.; Martin Peng from Oak Ridge, TN; John Hales, President of URANTIA Brotherhood; John Hay, Carol Setters, Cheryl Prince, Paul Snider; Francyl Gawryn and Marian Rowley, as well as 5-members of our Committee (Richard Prince, Mary Snider, Julia Fenderson, Marvin Gawryn and I) were present. In less than a month after mailing 1400 letters to multi-lingual university libraries around the world, we had received 9 requests for URANTIA Books for their libraries. We have now received about 30 requests. We are very excited about this. We discussed the possibilities of an "eastern" translation, possibly Chinese, and did some work on "guidelines" which we hope to complete and 'share with interested International groups in the future. The letter to libraries is now being translated into French so we might offer the French Translation to French-speaking Countries. After 2 days of meetings we were hosted to a dinner party at Dorothy Elder's home by the two URANTIA Societies in the Los Angeles area. It was great seeing and visiting with everyone.

May 11, 1985 - Twenty happy URANTIA Book readers will leave for Paris. We will meet with and have dinner with readers in that area, before leaving for Florence, Rome, Israel and Egypt. A girl from Finland will join us for three days in Israel, which will be exciting. Actually, we have friends joining us in Paris, in Rome, in Israel, and in Egypt.

I want to express deep appreciation to Martin Myers, former Chairman of this Committee; Marian Rowley and John Hales, from headquarters; my Committee members; and the entire Executive Committee for their willing and much needed assistance this past year.

Sincerely,

International Fellowship Committee

Berkeley Elliott, Chairman