Two new ATSS PRESENTS programs now on YouTube
25 December 2022 | Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament shows a different picture. There is […]
¡Qué forma tan extraña de salvar al mundo!
¿Has participado alguna vez en un desfile de Navidad o recitado un mensaje de Pascua? Si lo ha hecho, entonces apreciará la historia que tengo que contarle. Cuando yo crecía en la Primera Iglesia Bautista Africana de Beaufort, Carolina del Sur, organizábamos comúnmente desfiles de Navidad, recitábamos discursos de Semana Santa y ese tipo […]
Such a Strange Way to Save the World!
by Christopher C. Thompson | 23 December 2022 | Did you ever participate in a Christmas pageant or recite an Easter speech? If you have, then you’ll appreciate the story I have to tell you. When I was growing up in the First African Baptist Church in Beaufort, South Carolina, we commonly had Christmas pageants, […]
Northern Caribbean University Assesses Post-Covid 19 Depression in Jamaican Males
23 December 2022 | A recent islandwide study conducted by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has found that more than half, or 53%, of men in Jamaica have been experiencing varying levels of depression during the post-COVID-19 period, according to Nationwide Newsnet. The study, conducted in October and November of this year, found that levels of […]
News Briefs for December 22, 2022
22 December 2022 | ADRA: Serbia Provides Mobile Showers for Local Homeless Population Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Serbia director Igor Mitrović explains that Serbia has “a number of growing refugees and homeless people, without anyone taking care of them; we just got a growing impression that we need to do something for them.” […]
Bert Beverly Beach: Recuerdos de un gran líder y un verdadero amigo
En 2003 realicé una larga visita, junto con el Dr. Bert B. Beach, a los países bálticos. En aquel momento, él era el director del Departamento de Asuntos Públicos y Libertad Religiosa (PARL) de la Asociación General, mientras que yo desempeñaba esa misma función a nivel de División y la de Secretario Ejecutivo en la […]
Third and Fourth Graders Deliver Christmas Cheer to Kettering’s Ukrainian Students
21 December 2022 | KETTERING, OHIO – Liza Da Cunha’s third-grade class at Spring Valley Academy (SVA) decided that this year’s service project would involve doing something nice for the Ukrainian students at Kettering College who couldn’t go home for the holidays. They recruited the fourth-grade class to help them and, together, created gift bags […]
Bert Beverly Beach: Personal reminiscences of a great leader and a true friend
by Reinder Bruinsma | 22 December 2022 | Around 2003 I made an extended visit, together with Dr. Bert B. Beach, to the Baltic countries. He was at that time the director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) of the General Conference, while I combined that same role at the division […]
Bible Scholar Matthew Korpman Fact Checks Doug Batchelor
22 December 2022 | Fake news wasn’t just invented when Donald Trump rose to fame. It’s been around a lot longer. And unfortunately, even the most famous ministers of the Adventist church are capable of falling for it. Join Professor Matthew Korpman for another episode of Bible Scholar Reacts as he examines a widely distributed […]
ATSS: Christmas Eve Communion Service
22 December 2022 | This is our annual ATSS communion service. Our service will be shorter than usual. Please prepare your chosen bread and symbolic beverage before the service. We will begin with a devotional presented by sisters Taneshia Kerr and Cherri-Ann Farquharson, “Faith as an Experience.” Explains Cherri-Ann, Faith and fear cannot coexist. Some […]