By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 Australian journalist Matthew Knott is a 32-year-old U.S. correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was in New York City earlier...
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By Carl Greene Executive Director If your answer to this inquiry about a “Questionable Life” is no, then your church may not be healthy. Really. A questionable life is necessary...
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The global coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of North Americans. Developing and maintaining healthy leaders and...
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Focus on Missions By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Jesus has a master plan for transforming the world. His plan is that through the power of the...
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Jan 24, 2013
“Missio Dei” in Ireland by Clinton R. Brown While in Ireland, driving the wedding party to the site of my daughter’s ceremony, the classic Beatles 1967 song “All You Need Is Love” came on the car radio. I would not have characterized the Beatles as great guides to a life philosophy, but that song focused on what I was going to talk about as my family blessed...
Jan 24, 2013
How do churches hang on to their children? Follow Jesus! by Charlotte Chroniger Shiloh, New Jersey Psalm 127:3 says that “Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him.” Four of the greatest blessings in my life have been our children Tyler, Jordan, Bethany, and Jessica. I was struck with wonder when they were little that God should give...
Jan 24, 2013
So many choices! by Kevin Butler Radios. They’ve been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. I guess I got the “radio bug” when I watched my Dad set up the heavy, multi-tubed Heathkit shortwave radios on the dining room table. Turning on the stereo console behind him, he would drop the needle on the spinning record, and do his best to learn...
Jan 24, 2013
Center to be Shepard-less Morgan Shepard, Financial Director for the Seventh Day Baptist Memorial Fund since September 2004, is leaving the SDB Center in Janesville to take a position with L3 Communications Stratis in Molesworth, England. He announced this move to the General Council and CLT in early December 2012. Morgan had served on two deployments (in 2005...
Evaluating some thoughts of “A Candid Reader” by Nick Kersten, Librarian-historian In the early years of the 20th century, the pages of the Sabbath Recorder sometimes carried anonymous articles or letters affixed with a pseudonym. These writings can provide fascinating insights into the life of Seventh Day Baptists, as they reveal the unspoken mindsets,...
NOT the last chapter… A church may close its doors but its faith and influence live on…. Late last year, members of the Nortonville, Kansas, SDB Church voted to close their doors as of December 31, 2012. As word spread and the date approached, retired Pastor Edgar Wheeler, age 92, sent this letter to his friends and relatives in Nortonville....
Obituary Haire.—Rosemary Arlene (Cavinder) Haire, 91, died on December 6, 2012 at the Sojourner House of Kalamazoo, Mich. Rosemary was born April 30, 1921 in Jackson Center, Ohio, to Grover and Rosa Ann (Richards) Cavinder. She was a 1940 graduate of Battle Creek (Mich.) Central High School. She had been employed as an executive secretary at Olivet (Mich.)...
Jan 24, 2013
Experiencing God at a Higher Altitude By Ralph Mackintosh When my grandfather came to America in the 1880s he worked his way west until ending up in Colorado. There he labored constructing railroads, coal mining, gold and silver mining, harvesting timber and hard rock drilling. While working in the rough mining and lumber camps he began to seriously...