Jun 26, 2019
By Patty Petersen In business circles, a CRM is the main storage system for all things customer-related. For our Conference, it’s a central database for all things church-related, a “Church Relationship Management” tool. Churches are made up of people, so we also have information on individual Seventh Day Baptists, as well as those connected to us through...
Jun 26, 2019
By Marqueta Aiken Philadelphia SDB Church As you grow in the Lord you come to realize that your greatest blessings follow a difficult journey. That’s how it was with “The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations”1—fortunately God’s grace truly is amazing. On September 23, 2019, a group of twelve members and soon-to-be members of the Philadelphia SDB Church began a...
May 28, 2019
By Rev. D. Scott Smith The Sabbath Recorder Editor, 1982-1989 A few years ago, our family did something that Seventh Day Baptists began doing in 1871. We packed up our material possessions and resettled in North Loup, Nebraska. The first settlers came here seeking open land to farm. They wanted a place that was free from the “overcrowding” they were...
May 28, 2019
By Kevin Butler The Sabbath Recorder Editor, 1989-2014 “It takes a village to raise a child.” That phrase goes back years before Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book, and likely before the first Sabbath Recorder was printed in 1844. The adage is said to have originated in Africa. Louise Hudson, a contributor at quora.com—a website devoted to the origin of English...
by Jeremiah Owen Director of Communications In 1844, on the western side of North America (prior to California being a state), the first European laid eyes on Lake Tahoe and, on the eastern side of the continent, the first Sabbath Recorder rolled off the presses. It’s with great honor and respect that I am able to look back and survey the one hundred and...