29 May 2023 | Heather Crews, an associate director of the Ministerial Association of the North American Division (NAD) and an associate ministerial director for the Potomac Conference, has been appointed as the first female associate director of the NAD Evangelism Institute (NADEI). Tim Madding, director of NADEI, expressed excitement about Heather joining their team, […]
25 May 2023 | NAD Hosts 21st Annual Sonscreen Film Festival for Young Creators This year’s festival was held April 13-15 at the Loma Linda University Church in California. Forty-two student films were screened and Oakwood University students debuted at the event. John Quinn, editor of The Chosen, attended as a special guest to screen films, give […]
6 April 2023 | Southern Adventist University Knocks Out Fight Night Southern Adventist University issued an email statement to campus members regarding Fight Night, a community boxing event created by Southern students that is unaffiliated with the university, at 9:26 p.m. yesterday. The email was written on behalf of Ingrid Skantz, vice president for Marketing […]
30 March 2023 | Adventist Pastor Advocates for Released Prisoners to Receive a Clean Slate Having overcome his own prison record, Seventh-day Adventist pastor Aaron Chancy is lobbying state officials in New York to approve the revised Clean Slate Act. Now a Ph.D. student and faith leader, Chancy works with organizations aimed at helping youth […]
6 February 2023 | On January 17, 2023, approximately 100 people from diverse faith traditions gathered for the fourth annual Religious Freedom Prayer Breakfast. The event, held in person for the second year in a row, recognized January 16 as National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, and included prayer for the blessing of […]
03 February 2023 | Melissa Schiffbauer has become a huge digital content creator on Instagram and YouTube, tackling topics of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) life and the Bible from a practical, relatable perspective. Now she and co-creator Darryl Williams will be collaborating with the North American Division (NAD) to create a new podcast this March titled […]
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 […]
