News Briefs for April 16, 2021
News reports from Simi Valley, California’s Adventist Health Physician’s Network, Loma Linda University, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Newbold College and Avondale University College: According to Becker’s Health IT (citing an April 9 Ventura County Star report), Simi Valley, California-based Adventist Health Physicians Network was recently fined $40,000 for a medical record storage and privacy […]
Pruning
by Melissa Brotton | 13 April 2021 | “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2 ESV). I am sitting in a Sabbath afternoon seminar on how to grow stone fruit trees, the outcome of a […]
Fresh Faces – 2021 GC Spring Meeting Day 2
The poor souls on the nominating committee at GC Spring Meeting started their official deliberations at 5:00 AM EDT this morning (April 14.) They were tasked with finding replacements for GC Executive Secretary G.T. Ng and Juan R. Prestol-Puesán, the GC treasurer. Both men had announced they would be retiring. Amusingly (at least to us […]
Sharing Scripture for April 11 – 17, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”All Future Generations” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS lesson and includes a brief story from current news […]
The Eschatology of Pandemics and Pestilence • 17 April 2021, 1:30 PM Eastern (1730 GMT)
14 April 2021 | Read this essay in preparation for this Sabbath’s class. Excerpt: During the 14th-century bubonic plague, Jews were scapegoated. Spanish flu conspiracy theories often focused on the Germans: fake news reports claimed that German submarines purposely spread the disease around the world. Not surprisingly, millions have embraced various conspiracy theories in connection […]
Paul Douglas, Current GCAS Director, Voted GC Treasurer-Elect
14 April 2021 | Paul Douglas, current director of the General Conference Auditing Service (GCAS), has been voted in as GC Treasurer-Elect. The GC Executive Committee vote passed with 204 “Yes” votes and 10 “No” votes this morning at GC Spring Meeting. Douglas will start the job on August 1. According to the Adventist News […]
Erton Köhler Voted General Conference Executive Secretary
14 April 2021 | Current South American Division President Erton Köhler has been voted to the position of General Conference Executive Secretary at the General Conference Spring Meeting. The vote passed 197 to 16. Köhler is replacing G.T. Ng as secretary effective immediately. According to an Adventist News Network (ANN) story announcing his role, Köhler […]
Goodbyes, Plummeting Income and Workarounds – 2021 GC Spring Meeting Day 1
The I Will Go slogan for the current General Conference strategic plan may as well have doubled as the theme for the 2021 General Conference Spring Meeting as two major retirement announcements preceded the April 13-14 Zoom event. On April 12, Adventist News Network (ANN) tweeted the news that Juan R. Prestol-Puesán, the GC treasurer, […]
A Bodyguard of Half-Truths?
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 13 April 2021 | One of my pandemic readings was a book about Winston Churchill, in the context of World War II. I came across this statement that stopped me in my tracks. “In wartime,” Mr. Churchill said, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard […]
GC Treasurer Juan R. Prestol-Puesan Announces Retirement
13 April 2021 | On April 12, Adventist News Network (ANN) tweeted the news that Juan R. Prestol-Puesán, the GC treasurer, will be retiring: ‘Juan R. Prestol-Puesán, treasurer of the General Conference, announced his retirement today: “It is with a blend of conviction and sadness that I communicate to you my intention to transition to […]