Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI ACEs are serious childhood traumas that result in toxic stress that can harm a child’s brain. Toxic stress may prevent a child from learning or from playing in a healthy way with other children, which can result in long-term health problems. Examples of adverse childhood experiences can include: emotional, physical or sexual...

By Clinton R. Brown Executive Director 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance...

By Pastor William Shobe Dodge Center SDB Church, MN “How significant are your prayers?” I have heard a number of responses to that question. Often they reflect uncertainty about the true value or impact of prayer. I am certain that we all have had times when we felt as if our prayers accomplished little, if anything. As a result we can lose confidence that our...

Feb 20, 2019

By Katrina Goodrich Recently I was scrolling across my Facebook feed, as one does, and came across a plea for help from an old friend from college. She had recently given birth to her second child and was asking for ideas. She was not producing enough milk for her baby and her infant was allergic the different types of formula they had tried. One of her local...

Jan 29, 2019

In December Executive Director-elect Carl Greene proposed the following to the current Executive Director for his approval and then subsequently to the General Council for their consideration. The SDB General Council wholeheartedly endorses this vision and leadership direction proposed by the Rev. Carl Greene. By Rev. Carl Greene, Executive Director-elect I am...