By S M Chen, posted Dec 23, 2015 (with apologies and profound gratitude to Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA) More than one hundred score years ago, when the fullness of time had come, our Father brought forth on this planet a new order, conceived of the Spirit, and dedicated to the […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 23, 2015 It was my first time out with the shepherds all night, and I was excited! Well, I was excited for the first few hours, that is. After a while, it got chilly and boring and I snuggled up to the bellwether, who was old, and friendlier than some of […]
From ANN, December 22, 2015: Amazing Facts, a media ministry sponsored by the Northern California Conference, is celebrating 50 years of global evangelism. In early 1965, a small group of pastors gathered together in Baltimore, Maryland, to talk about the ineffective outreach efforts that were stagnating churches in their area. Among those meeting were […]
From ANN, December 22, 2015: The women’s ministries department of the Malawi Union Conference partnered with Malawi’s Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, on December 13, to organize a prayer breakfast in an effort to promote sisterhood among women of all faiths and occupations. The interfaith prayer breakfast included women from the Malawi […]
From ANN, December 16, 2015: An international networking association for Seventh-day Adventists in public office is expanding, with the Brazilian launch of a regional chapter of the World Association of Adventists in Public Office (WAPOA). Some 60 Adventist lawmakers, members of the judiciary, and others in public roles met December 5 in central São […]
From ANN, December 16, 2015: It is not unusual to see children romping in towering mounds of garbage on the dust-blown roads outside Nile Union Academy in Cairo, Egypt. In some areas, the trash rises to a height of eight feet (2.5 meters) and burns day and night with a toxic smoke, choking the […]
From ANN, December 16, 2015: Seventy-five years old and looking good! That’s what you’d think when visiting Villa Aurora, the Adventist Institute of Biblical Culture (IACB) in Florence, which on November 21 celebrated an important milestone. Born in 1940, in a house on Via Trieste 23, in Florence, the Adventist institution was later transferred […]
By S M Chen, posted Dec 16, 2015 “Ye have the poor always with you.” – Matt. 26:11 Life isn’t fair. But that doesn’t mean we should contribute to the state of economic disparity. Christ appears to have at least obliquely addressed that when, in His encounter with The Rich Young Ruler, he enunciated conditions […]
Posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 16, 2015 WHEN: Friday January 29, 2016 at 6:00 PM EST to Sunday January 31, 2016 at 3:00 PM EST WHERE: Camp Kulaqua 23400 NW 212 Avenue High Springs, FL 32643 COST: $95 before Jan. 15; $105 thereafter (for everything!) Click here! VERB is a retreat for young adults who are artistic, for young adults […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 16, 2015 As Tiffany Hoekstra from Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation told me, “I don’t want to say positive—there was nothing positive about this horrible shooting! But I do think that from that tragedy there was a sense of community and wanting to support each other. We were speaking […]
Painting by Yarilynne Regalado, posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 16, 2015 Used by permission As many of you know, I am constantly seeking more art (of all varieties!) for this space, so I was happy to make contact with the organizers, in Florida Conference, of a young artists’ retreat called VERB, which you can learn more […]
