By Loren Seibold, October 9. 2017: I’d like to tell you that I’m going to stay up all night to give you every minute detail of the discussion today. Alas, that won’t happen. It was a long day—we didn’t leave until after 7 PM—and we got there about that time this morning! I’ve […]
by Alvin Masarira, Johannesburg (South Africa), October 9, 2017 The General Conference Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is made up of representatives of all the divisions, General Conference personnel, some church institutions, and the presidents of all the union conferences and union missions. It meets twice a year, but […]
By Loren Seibold, October 8, 2017: The temptation, when you’re in a setting where you know there’s a conflict hanging over everyone’s heads, is to read that conflict into everything that happens, everything that’s said. You can start to see sinister motives in the most innocent happenings. But when the tension lies as heavy […]
October 8, 2017 – Update added October 13: Adventist investor Dennis Troesh has been valued at a net worth of $2.2 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Troesh owns 14.7 percent of data center operator Switch. On Friday the company achieved the third-biggest technology IPO in the U.S. this year. It shot up 46.5 […]
by Loren Seibold As I said yesterday, the LEAD conference this year wasn’t exactly leadership training, but featured the Adventist Mission department and its study groups that go under the heading of Global Mission Centers. This is a well-educated, deep thinking bunch, so a lot of what they presented was more informational than you usually […]
Stories from Las Vegas, California, Nashville, Washington DC and South Africa. The Breath of Life television ministry was already scheduled to launch an evangelism campaign in Las Vegas on Sunday evening (October 8) when the deadliest mass shooting incident in recent American history happened last Sunday night. “Now more than ever, we sincerely believe that […]
October 6, 2017: Florida Hospital has appealed to communities in Central Florida for supplies to aid in Puerto Rico hurricane relief. Critical goods such as canned food and baby supplies are sought for a collection drive on Sunday, October 8, at Calvary Orlando Church in Winter Park. Florida Hospital and the Adventist Church are […]
October 6, 2017: A strong majority of Adventists support the ordination of women to the gospel ministry, including those in developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. That is the perhaps surprising result of a survey conducted during the summer for Adventist Today. Respondents were asked, “What is your opinion about the ordination of […]
The first two days of Annual Council aren’t business sessions. For those of you hoping to get a bit of gossip, we’ve none to tell. (We’ve heard that the action everyone is most interested in will happen on Monday. Stay tuned.) The LEAD Conference has normally been leadership training for GCEC members, many of whom […]
If you’d like to follow our tweets, Bjorn Karlman is tweeting from the beginning of the meeting until the end. Friday’s tweet schedule will go from about 8AM to 12 noon. Sabbath we’ll be off, but you’ll want to tune in again on Sunday morning. (The discussion everyone is most interested in will probably take […]
By Loren Seibold I don’t expect this year’s Annual Council to mark the dissolution of our denomination. But there is potentially much at stake here, which is why we’ll be watching this General Conference Executive Committee with interest. The members of the General Conference Executive Committee are a cultural stew: some Western leaders, but a […]
October 4, 2017: An Andrews University professor and more than 20 students have taken part in research on gravitational waves that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. According to a news story on the Andrews website, Physics professor Tiffany Summerscales and her students represented Andrews in a group of 103 academic institutions in 18 […]