Mar 21, 2014
History made in Brazil by David Taylor In February 2010, after many years of prayer and planning, the Brazilian T.I.M.E. Program (Training In Ministry by Extension) became a reality. Students took seminary-level courses such as Systematic Theology, Old and New Testament Surveys, Homiletics, Hermeneutics, Greek and Hebrew, plus many others. Work was done...
Mar 21, 2014
One of the Best Things about Summer by Charlotte Chroniger The first summer I went to church camp I was in fifth grade. Five girls from my Sunday School class and I spent a week at a Baptist campground in Iowa. I enjoyed the morning chapel, the evening services, making new friends, and choosing different activities together. It was the best week of my...
Mar 21, 2014
CAMP HARLEY SUTTON: A facility that fosters forever friends by Lyle Sutton Camp Harley Sutton is the center of church camping for the Seventh Day Baptist Allegheny Association of Churches. The camp is located in Alfred Station, New York, on land that was donated to the Association in 1951 by Dr. and Mrs. H.O. Burdick. In 2000, an adjacent parcel of land...
Feb 21, 2014
World Fed names new General Secretary by Janet Thorngate Pastor Andrew Samuels, World Federation Vice President for North America and pastor of the Miami, Florida, Seventh Day Baptist Church, was elected General Secretary by majority vote of the World Federation member conferences in December 2013. As required by WFed bylaws, the vote was by mail/email...
Feb 21, 2014
Four Core Values of Small-Town Ministry When the going gets tough, these values will keep you going by Ron Klassen, RHMA Executive Director Editor’s note: Several years ago, I attended a conference sponsored by the Rural Home Missionary Association (RHMA). I had the opportunity to meet their executive, Ron Klassen. He has a heart for small-town...
Feb 21, 2014
The “Small” Church: Beloved, Beautiful, and Significant by Pastor Luis Lovelace, Metro Atlanta SDB Church The “small church” is the body of Christ in compact form. She is just as valuable as a group of larger size, and just as subject to the work of God upon them, and through them, for His glory. The small church resembles a family in many ways and has...