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BY RONDA COOK
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Eagle Forum of^Bryan/College
Station will meet to discuss the fi
nancial, economic and spiritual as
pects of the Year 2000 issue tonight
at 6:30 p.m. in the Christian Life
Center at Central Baptist Church in
Bryan.
Bo Armstrong, a local computer
and financial consultant and a for
mer student of Texas A&M, will
lead the discussion.
Susan Lee, former Eagle Forum
president and current board mem
ber, said the Eagle Forum’s main
function is to educate people. She
said the Y2K issue is pertinent to
the community.
Armstrong has researched the
Y2K issue and said the problems
are difficult to correct. He said al
though problems may be correct
ed, it is easy for new problems to
occur and time is quickly running
out.
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economy but it
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2000.
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Financial Consultant
a target for the year 1900.
Armstrong said the Y2K issue
will affect people globally and lo
cally. He said he expects econom
ic repercussions in the Bryan/Col
lege Station area.
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most every major wili: -
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Randy Mastre, a tattoo
artist of Christian themes, inks Jesus into his customers.
His tattooed Biblical inscriptions and portraits of
Christ provide startling contrast to more typical flaming
skulls and “Born to Raise Hell’’ markings adorning the
leather-clad bikers he rubs elbows with at national tat
too conventions.
It was at one of those convention that he met the Rev.
Daniel Ostrowski, a born-again Christian and Word of
Faith pastor who runs a tattoo parlor in Wausau, Wis.
Last year the two decided to unite other Christian tat-
tooers; since then almost 100 tattoo parlors across the
nation have heard the call of the Christian Tattoo Asso
ciation.
“Our idea is let’s take Christianity out of cloistered
halls and put it right in the forum where people live,
and let’s make it so real, so up-to-date, so today that it
impacts peoples’ lives,’’ Ostrowski says.
At tattoo conventions they put up a table and work
the crowd.
Some members adopt tattoos that cover their entire
backs. Tattoos of St. Michael slaying the devil and the
Last Supper are popular.
“I’ve seen hundreds of full-back Christian tattoos,’’
Mastre says.
Mastre says he has wanted to start a Christian tattoo
group for years. He said Chnstiansin
to encourage each other.
“We don’t want everybody in the world to kW
tattooing is the work of the devil becauseiiist’PI
tre says. “It’s a beautiful art form.’’
Rand Johnson, a tattooer in Willmar,klfj|
scribes the group as a ministry focused on peof 5 $
tattoo industry — and whoever else willli»
“For the most part, the world of tattoosac;,
ing and such is <i pretiv dark world, andasaOli
you want to shed a little light in there,” Johns
Some members of the clergy are not wild:
idea.
Fargo Bishop Rick Foss says that if somete
have a tattoo, he would rather it have a Christia F'
But, he adds, there are better ways to spre; _\
word.
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good case in the Bible or the basis of Christian - _
that this is somehow a really good thing,” s:.' ^ fXli
who heads the Eastern North Dakota Synod of: *
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Some clergy members who are againsttatto 4* 1*
a Biblical passage in Leviticus, which theysa
“Ye shall not make any cuttings inyourte:
dead, nor print any marks upon you...”
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