GAiN Conference Day One
2017-08-09-news-gain.png A recap of Day 1 at the GAiN Conference. We boarded the buses at 7:30 a.m. on August 9 and headed 30 minutes west to Brazil Adventist University (UNASP) for Day 1 of the GAiN...
View ArticleOakwood Alum Offers Positivity in Ferguson Photography Exhibit and More News...
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View ArticleGAiN Conference Day 2
2017-08-10-news-gain.png A recap of Day 2 of the 2017 GAiN Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The second day of GAiN, Thursday, August 10, was dedicated to exploring three Adventist institutions in...
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2017-08-11-news-gain.png A recap of Day 3 of the General Conference's 2017 Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) Conference. What a difference a day away makes. When the buses arrived on the UNASP...
View ArticleNAD President Issues Statement on Guam, Calls for Prayer After Threats from...
Gaumflag.png North American Division President Dan Jackson issued a statement calling for prayers for Guam on Saturday, August 12. On Tuesday, August 8, North Korean President Kim Jong-un threatened a...
View ArticleGAiN Conference Day 4 - Sabbath
2017-08-12-news-gain.png A recap of Sabbath at the GAiN (Global Adventist Internet Network) Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I heard a rumor earlier in the week that a herd of capybara spend their...
View ArticleGAiN Conference Day 5
2017-08-13-news-gain.png A recap of the final day of the 2017 Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) Conference, organized by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and held in Sao Paulo,...
View ArticleThe Vision: New Docu-Drama Series on Beginnings of Church in Europe
2017-08-16-thevisiondocumentary.gif European Adventists Pilot a Video Series on the Beginning of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe European Adventists Pilot a Video Series on the Beginning of...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Peacemakers: Ricardo Graham Responds to White Supremacist...
Ricardo Graham.png On behalf of those who have hated in Christ’s name, who have been violent and even killed ostensibly in Christ’s name. With you, I mourn for those, like Heather Heyer, who have been...
View ArticleSeventh-day Adventist Entities Respond to Charlottesville
2017-08-18-wikimediacommons-charlottesville.jpg In the aftermath of a clash that turned deadly on August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, Seventh-day Adventist individuals and entities from...
View ArticleSeventh-day Adventist Congregants Comfort Heather Heyer's Parents and More...
2017-08-23 News.png In this week’s news roundup, congregants from Charlottesville-area Seventh-day Adventist churches pray with Heather Heyer’s parents at the site of their daughter’s death, a Canadian...
View Article“Thank You, Lake Union Family!” Don Livesay Announces Retirement
2017-08-26 News.png Don Livesay, Lake Union President, announced his retirement in the September issue of the Lake Union Herald, the Lake Union Conference’s monthly magazine. Don Livesay, Lake Union...
View ArticleMemorial Service for Charles Teel Held at La Sierra University Church
Screenshot 2017-10-29 at 6.29.20 AM.png The memorial service for Charles Teel, long-time professor at La Sierra University, was held on Sabbath, October 28, at the campus church. The memorial service...
View ArticleNorth American Division Responds to GC Unity Actions: Day 4 at the NAD Meetings
2017-10-29-nadyem17.png On the Day 4 agenda: the Secretary's Report and a discussion on the GC Unity Document. The day’s business agenda began with G. Alexander Bryant’s Secretary’s Report. Originally...
View ArticleReformation Journey Part 4: Dying to Ask Questions
unsplash-sidharth-bhatia-128319.jpg Is your faith worth dying for? In theory we often say yes. After all, Jesus died on a cross for us, and none of the apostles died a natural death. Yet would we,...
View ArticleReformation Journey Part 5: Celebrating 500 Years of Reformation
Picture-perfect_Town_square_with_church_wittenberg.jpg It supposedly happened 500 years ago today! Martin Luther, a professor at Wittenberg University nailed an academic discussion to the door of the...
View ArticleYoung Adults Make the Reformation Relevant Again
Screenshot 2017-10-31 at 8.17.47 PM.png An old-fashioned door. 95 theses. Nails splintering wood. This is not a picture from 500 years ago. This is how young Adventists from Poland are presenting the...
View ArticleFinancing the Work: Day 5 at the NAD Meetings
2017-10-30-nadyem17.png On Monday at the Year-End Meetings of the North American Division, over 15 reports were presented with lightning efficiency on a variety of topics. On Monday at the Year-End...
View ArticleMoving Adventism Forward: Day 6 at the NAD Meetings
2017-10-31-nadyem17.png The final day of the North American Division Year-End meetings was a race to finish all the remaining agenda items. President Dan Jackson jokingly announced that a trap door had...
View ArticlePresidential Letter Prompted by Constituent Battle
peter-hershey-282615.jpg While social media outlets were abuzz on Friday with details of an October letter from the Northern California Conference President to his pastors about church regulations...
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