Oct 24, 2019
Please consider discussing with your family about adding some of these to your Christmas gift list. Some of our SDB families have made it part of their year-end tradition to select items from our suggested gift list to support the ministry work of our SDB brethren around the world. During this season, let us celebrate the greatness of our Father’s love, with...
Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society My Dad passed away on Sabbath, May 25, 2019, one month short of his 86th birthday, and on the very Sabbath I preached my last sermon as Pastor of the Miami Seventh Day Baptist Church. Like me, he was born on the island of Jamaica in the West Indies. When he was a teenager, attending Crandall High...
Aug 27, 2019
by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society We have a choice to make. We can be world-class Christians, or worldly Christians. Worldly Christians are primarily concerned about their personal fulfillment. They’re saved, but they’re self-centered. They wouldn’t be very interested in missions conferences, but they love attending concerts and...
Jun 26, 2019
By Michael Spearl I was contemplating the progress toward unity within the Philippine SDB family of churches as Pastor Andy Samuels and I flew into Dumaguete, in the province of Negros Oriental, on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, 2019. Since the early 1980s, two separate SDB conferences have been active, leading souls to Christ, representing the SDB name in...
By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society The Sabbath Recorder and the Missionary Society have some parallels. First of all, they are almost the same age. The current organization of the Missionary Society was established in 1846, two years after the printing of the first Sabbath Recorder. Secondly, they both have been all over the globe....
Apr 26, 2019
by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director, SDB Missionary Society Here I am today, having begun a new journey in my life. In my own mind and heart, it is still sinking in and being processed that I am serving as the newly appointed Chief Executive Director of the SDB Missionary Society. Seventh Day Baptists have been a meaningful part of my life for the entire...