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Imelda Marcos, wife of Phillipines President Ferdinand E. Marcos, will attend a luncheon at Tufts University today to announce a $1 million combined grant from several private Phillipine foundations to the Asian Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy...
...Fletcher, who has witnessed people speaking in tongues, says someone always is able to interpret the language afterwards, whether it be some real language or unrecognizable sounds. He says this interpreter is also possessed of the Holy Spirit...
...Fletcher also believes he was cured of back trouble he used to have, at a charismatic meeting of the kind where speaking in tongues takes place...
...often came to people who had been hostile or indifferent to religion before. Crist, Duff and Donovan all found Christ through high school friends, after long periods of skepticism. Each say they knowingly let Christ into their hearts with all the self-denial and possible hardship it might entail. Fletcher and Brannan both came from Texas towns where strong Christian organizations operated in their high schools. Brannan says he went to his first Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting because it was being held at the house of a girl he wanted to see. Whatever the initial spark...
...believe God will provide signs of what they are to do in their future lives and will take care of them. Brannan has recently begun considering the ministry, something he never did before, because he says God has provided certain signs that he might be right for that calling. Fletcher jokingly says, "I'm going to become a Christian bum," but adds seriously it may be best to be in a position to speak for Christ in some career other than the ministry. He points to the great impact Sam Ervin had when he quoted scripture during the Watergate hearings...