Jun 24, 2014
What Do I Do Now? By Seth Osborn Well, here I am. My last Beacon article. After serving for two years as the editor/most-of-the-time-writer, I’m now at the end. Similarly, I’m at the end of my high school career; I graduated on May 25. And I’m also at the end of a romantic relationship. Actually we broke up just a few hours before I sat...
Jun 24, 2014
Forever changed in West Africa By Danny Lee, Colorado Springs, Colo. I was humbly blessed to accompany Missionary Society Director Clint Brown to the Republic of Cameroon, Liberia and Ghana on a much-needed mission trip to see SDBs in West Africa. We first flew to Cameroon and had the pleasure of attending their Annual Conference in a small...
Committing the Word to memory by Andrew J. Camenga Part of obeying all that Christ commanded is remembering what He said and what He valued. Seventh Day Baptists encourage this part of discipleship by memorizing Scripture together. The Board of Christian Education has strengthened that impulse with the annual Scripture Memory program. Since the program...
Jun 24, 2014
2014 Institute held Sessions dealt with the Sabbath by Gordon Lawton Seven students gathered in Janesville, Wis., at the SDB Center for the final week of the “Summer” Institute in Sabbath Theology. The students began participating online in February and submitted their Sabbath Theology paper at the end of the class session in Wisconsin....
Jamaican SDB Pastors In North America By Rev. Andy Samuels Over the last 40 years—approximately the span of a generation—no less than 27 Jamaicans or men of Jamaican descent have served as Pastor, Assistant Pastor, or Associate Pastor of a Seventh Day Baptist Church in North America. That is quite a remarkable occurrence when considered from any...
Above & Beyond by Katrina Goodrich Sometimes a word or phrase is spoken and it sticks with you. There are some lines that don’t fade into your memory (movie quotes, Bible verses, BAZINGA!). During SCSC training one year, our team was given some advice I think about often. We were told that when we finished a task we should look around, find...