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KARATE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL HOMECOMING UPDATE   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. *********************************************************************   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.   *********************************************************************   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).   *********************************************************************   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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Membership into the ISA is no longer free. We have instituted an annual membership fee of a one-time fee of $40.00 for a Lifetime, which must be paid up front, that is, before membership is awarded.

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Include promotions you are planning as well as a updated personal BIO on yourself. If you have been promoted in rank by another organization, let us know so that we can update your records.

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