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KARATE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL
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September 24th-25th
Karate for Christ International
2010 HOMECOMING SEMINAR
September 24th-25th
In BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA.
www.bigstonegap.org
From: Barry Bandy, Director, KFCI Mission Support
Team.
On Behalf of KFCI President, Daryl R.
Covington and U.S. Ops. President, Mike Lewis
To: All KFCI Members,
Date: 05 April 2010
Subj: SEMINAR UPDATE #3
Dear KFCI members,
I want to take this opportunity to THANK each of you
who have responded about the upcoming Homecoming
Seminar in September. We have a great lineup of KFCI
Certified Instructors for this most special event:
Joseph Lumpkin, 8th-Dan, Founder, Shinsei Hapkido.
Director, Hapkido Arts Div, KFCI.
Special Appearance: Dr. George I. Petrotta, 8th-Dan.
Director, Korean Arts Div. KFCI.
Mike Lewis, 7th-Dan, U.S. President, KFCI.
David L. Price, 5th-Dan, U.S. Vice-President, KFCI.
Mark Abraham, 6th-Dan, KFCI Hampton Roads Va. Regional
Rep.
Jim Carpenter, 5th-Dan, Director, KFCI Tournaments.
Leslie Sowl, 2nd-Dan. KFCI Membership Management.
Ed Hershman, 7th-Dan. Okinawa Kenpo.
Scott Cato, 4th-Dan, Christian-ha Shito-Ryu Karate-Do.
Alton Tate Jarvis, 3rd-Dan. Christian-ha Shito-Ryu and
Kobudo.
Bryan Ratliff, 3rd-Dan, Shotokan Karate and 1st-Dan
Shinsei Hapkido.
Chris Stewart, 2nd-Dan, KFCI California State Rep.
David Lyons, 2nd-Dan. Shinsei Hapkido.
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This event will be a great opportunity for each of us
to fellowship, have fun, get to know each other
better, all while raising funds for our
KFCI missionaries overseas.
Seminar Fee's:
As always, we strive to keep the cost of all Official
Sanctioned KFCI events as low as possible for you.
Pre-registration fee's:
(Before July 20th)
$25.00 each (Adult)
$5.00 each (kid's age 5 - 12)
After July 20th:
$30.00 each (adults).
$10.00 each (Kid's age 5 - 12)
(Registration Forms coming soon)
*Spectators enter free, but we will accept any
donation offer for the missions fund.
*Please note:
The Seminar fee does not include the banquet dinner.
All proceeds from this event will go directly to
support our KFCI missionaries who are currently
serving in Asia.
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KFCI Board Members, Officers, and Representatives, it
is especially important to try and be there for the
teleconference/ board meeting that will take place on
Saturday the 25th, with Daryl Covington or Mike Rhodes
from overseas.
We have a great facility for the seminar and a nice
big room reserved for the *Awards Banquet, that will
be held Saturday night, at the Prime Sirloin
restaurant.
*Dinner Price's rang from:
$8.19 Hot Bar - includes salad bar and dessert bar. /
$6.99 Salad Bar Only. / $1.69 Drinks.
Orders from the Menu: $5.99 to $15.99 plus drinks.
Lodging:
We have a block of fifteen (15) nice rooms reserved at
the Comfort Inn, located in Big Stone Gap, VA. CALL
NOW, to reserve your room. ONLY 14 rooms left.
(use this link to locate Comfort Inn: http://www.comfortinn.com/big_stone_gap-virginia-hotels?chain=CI&source=mnciva295
) You MUST CALL to reserve rooms.
Note: These rooms are not in Karate for Christ name,
they are in Barry Bandy's name, and you must tell them
this to get the discount rate.
For those instructors who would like to be in one of
our KFCI Martial Arts Ministry Divisions, we have a
building reserved for Dan Rank Recognition testing or
any over do Dan Rank Promotion testing. Testing will
take place on Friday evening the 24th.
*Very Important Notification:
For Dan rank promotions, you must be currently
certified through Karate for Christ International. For
Dan rank recognition, KFCI instructor certification
must be pending. At this time, the only Divisions that
will be offering Dan Rank recognition testing will be
the following: KFCI Hapkido Arts Div and KFCI Japanese
Arts Div.
To have your current Dan rank recognized by KFCI,
please bring a copy of your current Dan Rank
certificate as proof of Dan rank. The certificate MUST
be issued from a legitimate martial arts school,
instructor, or organization in which you have actually
trained and earned the respectful Dan rank (All copies
will be kept for our records).
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In closing, let me ask each of you to please look at
your schedules, and if at all possible, please begin
making your plans to attend this event. Instructors,
please encourage your students to attend this event.
We have already heard from several of our KFCI
instructors and we would like to hear from the rest of
you too.
It is our greatest hope that, in all aspects of this
event,
that God will be honored and His will be done!
God Bless and hope to hear from you soon!
Feel free to contact me with any questions about this
event.
Barry Bandy-Sensei
Lion & Lamb Karate Kids
bandys@comcast.net
(276) 523 - 3333 or (276) 393 - 7040
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