I found this on the COAI e-alley, I hope its ok to repost it here.
Fellowship of Christian Clowns
Posted by: "pjpc03"
pjdc79@excite.com pjpc03
Tue May 8, 2007 6:13 am (PST)
As some of you have heard on the various E-groups already there has
been discussion about the formation of a Christian Clown
association.
We would like to start off by saying thank you to Chris Burton for
sending out the initial email. We felt it was important for the
first email to be sent out by an impartial party in order to get
unbiased responses as to whether this was something you wanted.
According to the overwhelming responses in favor of this group, we
are moving forward.
The group of Christian clowns who shared in the vision of forming
this association has come together to form the Vision Team; they are
as follows: Dana and Jane Abendschein, Randy Christensen, Gary and
Ann Gramlich, Tony and Nikki Jones and John and Phyllis Sheffield.
We would now like to share the vision of this association. It will
be a non-denominational, non-political, non-biased Christian clown
fellowship; a fellowship of Christian clowns, hence the name
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN CLOWNS. We thank everyone who offered ideas
for names, they were greatly appreciated. The group will be
dedicated to education, networking missions and fellowship.
As with every association there has to be a mouthpiece to get
information to the member, this is done through either the
association? s newsletter or magazine. Since there is already a
Christian clown magazine on the market and not wanting to duplicate
something already in place; the publisher of the Cross and the Clown
magazine have offered to give any and all rights to the Cross and
the Clown allowing it to become the official magazine of FCC. (If
you are a current subscriber to the Cross and the Clown, do not
worry this will not affect your current subscription there will be
detailed information in the next issue; make sure you read it.)
Furthermore, the Vision Team has discussed dividing the U.S. into
ten regions to better serve the membership. Each region will have
an appointed facilitator to serve as a liaison between the members
and the Operations Committee to communicate prayer needs, desires to
do mission trips and other needs. At this time all areas outside
the U.S. will fall under one international facilitator until the
time when international membership deems it necessary to split those
areas.
Like any association there will be some administrative costs and we
will strive to keep them as minimal as possible, therefore one
magazine will be sent to families (the first family member will have
the magazine sent to them, all other members can sign up at a
greatly reduced cost.) The yearly dues will be as follows:
$35.00 (U.S. Currency) Individual
Membership
$10.00 (U.S. Currency) Additional Family Member (living in
your house)
Anyone signing up before July 1, 2008 will be charter members. To
sign up today you can send in the $35 to P.O. Box 8, Madison GA
30650. Or if you already receive the magazine you can send in $10 to
become a charter member which will carry you to the end of your
subscription of the magazine.