By Willy Villalpando Maranatha Community Church Colton, CA As we have finished another week at General Conference and SCSC, I feel that it is important to reread this message. So thank you all and God bless. (From September 2015) After a very exciting and action-packed week at General Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a very awesome, yet long summer...
New Award and Traditional Awards given at Conference
Aug 29, 2016
By Nicholas J. Kersten Christian Education Council As promoted in the pages of the Sabbath Recorder over the last year, the Christian Education Council honored two churches and an outstanding teacher during the awards time at this year’s General Conference meetings. The Sabbath School Teacher of the Year for the 2015-16 Conference year is Rev. David Fox of the...
Whose Plan is it Anyway?
Aug 29, 2016
by Pastor Steve Osborn SDB Church, Boulder, CO Pastor Dave Stall told me, “One of the most important things in visiting Ethiopia is to be flexible.” Boy, was he ever right! We had plans — and good ones. But God had better ones. Our plan was for Pastor Dave, Pastor John Pethtel, and me to make a follow-up visit to our churches among the Nuer people who are...
It’s All About The People: 100 Years of the SDB Historical Society Celebrated at General Conference
Aug 29, 2016
By Nicholas J. Kersten During the afternoon activities at General Conference, the SDB Council on History was allotted 45 minutes to honor and celebrate a century of ministry of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society. The Society was merged with the General Conference in April of this year, but not before the Society entered its one hundredth year of...
The Beacon
by Annie Lloyd Welcome to the Beacon of 2016-2017! If you do not know already, the Beacon is a section of the Sabbath Recorder — specifically for the youth of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination. In this section there will be an article written by a youth. These articles are not only meant to honor and represent Seventh Day Baptists, but also, most...