Jun 23, 2017
The General Council met May 19-21, 2017, hosted by the SDB Church in Pataskala, OH. We meet every 2-3 months to look at progress, concerns, budgets, decisions, and future direction across the SDB General Conference (USA & Canada). Part of our focus is to look forward at where we want to be 3-5 years from now and what we need to do to get there. It was...
by Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History Scripture Memory Program Reporting and Recognition! The coming of the summer means, in many places, our local churches have completed their participation in our Scripture Memory Program! The program traditionally runs from September through May — though this year, we gave local...
May 22, 2017
“The Kingdom of God is like…” a room full of brothers and sisters in Christ singing praise to God in several languages, the walls around them lined with the flags of many nations. It is bigger than that, of course. The sixty official delegates and observers sometimes swelled to more from nearby churches as they shared in worship, sermons, and Bible studies on...
May 22, 2017
by Canaan Phiri, new WF Vice President for Africa “How good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity” (Psalm 133:1) True to the reflections of the Psalmist, I believe this should be the same feeling for each and every SDB once he or she tastes the Seventh Day Baptist World Federation (SDBWF) fellowship. I attended the SDBWF sessions for the...
May 22, 2017
By Daisy Moitinho and Amaury Moitinho To be translator at SDB World Federation Sessions was an honor and a blessing. We asked the Lord to help us to translate exactly what He wanted to speak to everybody there, and we thank the Lord for His help. It was wonderful to meet people from all parts of the world speaking the same language — we mean Seventh Day Baptist...