3,011 Brethren are registered as Annual Conference participants. Today at Annual Conference. Lowell Flory of McPherson, Kan., is elected Annual Conference moderator-elect.
Delegates consider several business items and reports.
Forty-six Brethren wake up early to raise money for charity. Several unscheduled events are taking place at Conference. In several announcements of note, Annual Conference Executive Director Duane Steiner admonished Conference attendees to cross city streets at intersections and in crosswalks, not at midpoints without the appropriate markings. Lowell Flory, McPherson, Kan., was elected today to serve as 1998 moderator-elect by Conference delegates. Flory is a professor and chairman for business and economics at McPherson College.