May 22, 2017

by Garfield Miller, Missions Coordinator I was privileged, in January 2017, to attend the 8th Session of the Seventh Day Baptist World Federation (SDBWF) held in Curitiba, Brazil, under the theme “The Kingdom of God is Like…” Permit me to reflect on that global gathering of SDBs. The Kingdom of God can be considered as a spiritual rule over the hearts and...

Jan 20, 2021

An Update By Pastor Darrell Chilson It all started with an earnest desire to reach “Phoenix for Christ” (an article so named in the Sabbath Recorder of September 2019) and an opportunity to establish a Sabbath ministry in the fifth largest city in the United States. This new ministry had to be Christ-centered, and the telling of His story the focus of its...

Oct 1, 2020

By Gabriel Graffius Refining Worship The COVID-19 lockdown came upon us suddenly. From one Sabbath service to the next, First Hopkinton SDB went from attendance of over 100 to a government-imposed limit of 25. Then the limit was ten. Soon after that, it was five. Each week we adjusted our worship service and who participated. Each week our awesome crew had to...

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...

Jan 23, 2020

Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Our world has become so much smaller because of the advent of the Internet. On the Internet, a brother in Bangladesh reached out to an SDB Pastor’s wife in Cumberland, Maryland. Her name is Karen Higson. Over the next almost two years, that connection blossomed and was nurtured, so that our brother in...