13 January 2023 | Rose Marie Otis, age 82, passed in her sleep early on Saturday morning, January 7, 2023. She was living in Frederick, Maryland, with her husband of 64 years, Harold “Bud” Otis Jr. She was known as an author, speaker, and prominent leader within the Seventh-day Adventist church. In 1977, Rose left […]
by Loren Seibold, November 13, 2015. I told you in a previous column that the most interesting item on the NAD Year-end Meeting agenda was the report of the Church Governance Committee. Within the document were some exciting and courageous proposals—but presenters dropped cautionary warnings. NAD president Dan Jackson said repeatedly that this is just a study document, […]
by Loren Seibold, November 6, 2015. I’ve been to a lot of church meetings. But there are none that compare to the marathon business sessions that happen at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters at 12501 Old Columbia Pike. They can be a bit of an ordeal: this latest one stretched over 8 days. Like all business […]
By Loren Seibold, October 29, 2015: This afternoon at the annual meeting of the governing body for the North American Division (NAD) of the Adventist denomination, a report was shared on the division’s Women in Ministry initiative, introduced in 2012. Pastor Alex Bryant, NAD secretary, said there’d initially been some confusion about the program, because some thought […]