Mar 20, 2018

By Clinton R. Brown Executive Director   In October of 2015, I had the privilege of traveling to the African countries of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi with Johnmark Camenga, pastor of Lost Creek SDB Church in West Virginia. Before going, the lead pastor in Burundi, Gilbert Ndwayo, advised me that we should not follow through on our plans to travel into...

Jan 22, 2016

By Clinton R. Brown For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. — Luke 9:24 Sitting with the Seventh Day Baptist leaders in Bujumbura, Burundi, we talked and prayed about the struggles of doing ministry in their country. Neither the pastor that came with me nor I had little that compared...

Aug 30, 2020

Andy Samuels, Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Before the current pandemic curtailed our travel, the Missionary Society, over the past Conference year, through its directors and other missionaries, was able to visit and share ministry in several countries. They included: Bangladesh This is a new field for Seventh Day Baptists. A family of solid...

Mar 24, 2020

By Garfield Miller Director of Outreach SDB Missionary Society   In the podcast What is Love by John Piper (Founder and Teacher, desiringGod.org), he defines love in two ways: “love of complacency”—because something is pleasing; and “love of benevolence”—to bring about something beautiful. Based on these definitions we can know with confidence that what we...

Nov 26, 2019

by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society James 1:27 says, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This verse mentions two groups of people who need particular care and attention: widows and orphans. For...