Cindy Coloma Shares Insights in Eugene

Pamela Rosales - OCW Recording Secretary - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Northwest Christian University in Eugene hosted OCW’s spring conference, where keynoter Cindy Martinusen Coloma shared her journey to publication. Her candid yet entertaining style moved the audience through laughter and tears to encouragement. Unassuming, she said it’s still hard to believe when she hears herself answer, “I’m a writer,” when asked the question, “What do you do?” Well, I purchased her most recent book from OCW’s conference book table and set about reading it as soon as I returned home. Her intricate weaving of people and situations kept me reading every free moment. She is definitely a writer.
After Cindy’s sessions, President Mary Hake conducted the business meeting. Treasurer Billie Reynolds announced OCW’s total balance as $36,784, most of which was seed money for the summer conference. About $12,000 of that amount came from summer conference registrations.

Mary reported that the Nominating Committee had one qualified candidate for program coordinator; however, nominations are still open. Since that time, the candidate withdrew, but Marilyn Rhoads has accepted the nomination to run for the office of program coordinator. The election will be held at the fall business meeting.

The health of OCW is evidenced by its growth—almost 450 members today. We are blessed that our growing pains have been minimal and actually positive in many respects.