by Rachael Osborn SDB Church of Boulder, CO As 2015 turns to 2016, the entire world seems to reflect on the previous year and resolve to be better in the upcoming one. You’re going to drink more water, and she’s going to lose weight, and he’s finally going to finish that one project. Our lives change so drastically in the span of a mere 24 hours as we begin the...

Feb 22, 2016

by Nadine Lawton First Hopkinton SDB Church, RI “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1 We take many steps of faith throughout our lives. Our first steps are as a baby when we trust our parents to hold our hands as we take those first tentative steps toward walking on our own. My grandson is taking...

by Willy Villalpando Maranatha Community Church, Colton, CA   A little less than a year ago, I received a notification on Facebook that I had been added to a secret group. The notification read, “You have been added to the secret group ‘I have a Tumor in my Chest’.” I would have never anticipated entering my Facebook feed. I went to the group page to be...

Linda Lawton Boulder SDB Church, CO And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” — Luke 10:27 Music has always been an integral part of my life. I grew up in a church where every service included an anthem by the choir, in addition...

by Rob Appel Executive Director   Culture — The society we must create to realize our potential. This is the last in a series about the “Vision Map” that the General Council introduced last July at General Conference Sessions in Lancaster, PA. In December, 2015, I began a four-month series covering each side of the “Vision Map.” The “Vision Map” lays out...

Feb 22, 2016

by Peggy Chroniger The Seventh Day Baptist Christian Education Council is pleased to award the 2015 Sabbath School Teacher of the Year to Rachel Trudell from the Alfred Station Seventh Day Baptist Church. Rachel began teaching when she was in college. She started with the 2nd and 3rd graders. After taking a break while starting to raise her children, she began...