Feb 21, 2014

World Fed names new General Secretary by Janet Thorngate   Pastor Andrew Samuels, World Federation Vice President for North America and pastor of the Miami, Florida, Seventh Day Baptist Church, was elected General Secretary by majority vote of the World Federation member conferences in December 2013. As required by WFed bylaws, the vote was by mail/email...

Feb 21, 2014

Four Core Values of Small-Town Ministry When the going gets tough, these values will keep you going by Ron Klassen, RHMA Executive Director          Editor’s note: Several years ago, I attended a conference sponsored by the Rural Home Missionary Association (RHMA). I had the opportunity to meet their executive, Ron Klassen. He has a heart for small-town...

Feb 21, 2014

The “Small” Church: Beloved, Beautiful, and Significant by Pastor Luis Lovelace, Metro Atlanta SDB Church   The “small church” is the body of Christ in compact form. She is just as valuable as a group of larger size, and just as subject to the work of God upon them, and through them, for His glory. The small church resembles a family in many ways and has...

Feb 21, 2014

“The Lord would not let me not come to church!” An interview with Grace Rabatin By John and Ellen Griffin          Members of the Paint Rock, Ala., SDB Church (and the Sabbath Recorder Committee), John and Ellen Griffin took some time to interview longtime church member Grace Rabatin. Over the years, the Paint Rock church faced the ups and downs of...

Jan 22, 2014

Mind your markers by Kevin Butler   Elizabeth Akers Allen wrote this in 1860: “Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight. Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears.”   It’s comforting to recall happier times of childhood. But living in the past can become troublesome...