1998 Festival at eight regional sites 1998 Festival at eight regional sites Plans are under way to conduct Feast of Tabernacles celebrations at eight U.S. sites in 1998. Eight-day celebrations will also take place in Alaska and Hawaii, on the Panama Canal cruise and with the tour group in Israel. Sites in Canada and elsewhere will be named later. Mr. Kelly assumed Festival duties performed by Mark McCulley, who ended his 19-year church employment in January in the ongoing downsizing of denominational headquarters. However, because we no longer have a full-time Festival department and because Festival attendance is lower than in previous years, it is not feasible to have so many locations.
Selected sites are popular with church members.
Also, we have a good working relationship with convention facility managers, housing establishments and city officials in these cities. Church Administration is preparing a Festival brochure for mailing in April. It will have information on the eight sites and a Festival application. As the church reorients its thinking about the Festivals, they become times to celebrate the joys of salvation, our faith and our Lord. Every chance to come together in festive worship brings us into fellowship with each other and with our Savior.