Sep 26, 2018
11 August 2018 – Milton, WI The Rev. Donald E. Richards, better known as Pastor Don, was presented a certificate recognizing 60 years of accredited service as a Seventh Day Baptist (SDB) minister. Senior Pastor Nate Crandall presented Pastor Don with a certificate from the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference of the United States and Canada. When asked if...
Sep 26, 2018
By Holly Probasco Over the course of my 17 years of life, I have had two knee surgeries, both for ACL tears on my left leg. So, as the second surgery rolled around for me, I sort of knew what to expect. Huge brace, one month on crutches, no running for nine months. Therefore, as I woke up from my anesthesia, I lay on my hospital bed wondering if they had...
Sep 26, 2018
By Clinton R. Brown In August of 2018 I had the opportunity to travel to Cuba to meet with Sabbath-keeping believers in the city of Santa Marta. Manuel Marambio, a leader of the Chilean SDB Convention, met me there to translate. The Cubans had initially made contact with the Chileans through the Chilean SDB website. Because of this connection and to help...
Sep 26, 2018
by Rob Appel Lately I have had the song “My Way” running through my head. I guess there is a good reason that it has been cycling through my thoughts now and again. With my pending retirement, from the position of Executive Director, I have been thinking about the past 14 years, and planning the next few months until September 2019. And there are so many to...
By Sarina Villalpando Everybody has a testimony. No matter how big or how small, it exists—because we exist and God exists and we are where we are for a reason. Today I will share a part of mine. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” —Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) There...
Sep 26, 2018
by Janet Thorngate Fourth in a series of spinoff articles from recent research on the Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists1 There were at least eleven of them. Their stories hide in the records over a period of 123 years. Discovering them elicits emotions from shock and shame to awe and fascination—then admiration. Forty-nine years after the Newport...