Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI People who suffer from chronic pain often receive well-meaning advice that quite frankly is not helpful. They may feel isolated and depressed because they cannot participate in activities as they once did. At the same time they may smile, laugh, and praise God while not looking sick at all. This causes others to misunderstand...
God is Already There
Jun 26, 2019
by Scott Hausrath By the time this is published, I will have recently taken a short vacation. Lord willing, during the third week of June I will enjoy a road trip through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. On Sabbath of that week, I’ll hopefully be in Indiana, 775 miles away from my home church—so I won’t be worshiping God within the context of my own...
Get UNcomfortable!
Jun 26, 2019
By Sarina Villalpando Maranatha Community Church, Colton, CA One of the hard challenges God puts into our journey is to step out of our comfort zone. God wants us to be uncomfortable. To be uncomfortable is how we grow. It’s how we continue God’s journey. We are to abandon our comfort zones and step out into faith. When talking about stepping out of our comfort...
Unity in the Philippine SDB Family of Churches
Jun 26, 2019
By Michael Spearl I was contemplating the progress toward unity within the Philippine SDB family of churches as Pastor Andy Samuels and I flew into Dumaguete, in the province of Negros Oriental, on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, 2019. Since the early 1980s, two separate SDB conferences have been active, leading souls to Christ, representing the SDB name in...
Effective Outreach
Jun 26, 2019
By Katrina Goodrich With so much focus on outreach and discussion on different ways to be involved in your community, I think it’s important to take a small step back and look at our individual church and community situations because not everything that has succeeded in one place is going to work in another. We need to be mindful of the fact that just because...