Mar 18, 2016

2nd in a series celebrating the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society Centennial by Janet Thorngate It was thirty-five years ago that I first saw the picture. Four men and one woman, posed formally in front of an ivy-covered wall, impressive, yet at ease in their fashionable 1920s attire. Who were they? And why worthy of an 8 x 10 print mounted on pressed grey...

Mar 18, 2016

Pastor C. Rex Burdick was born in Boulder, CO. At age 11 he was baptized and joined the DeRuyter, NY, SDB Church. He went to Salem (WV) College, and at the beginning of his senior year married Bette Lippincott. They had five children (Douglas, Norman, Carole, Martha, and Pamela) in ten years. While they were serving in Riverside, CA, Bette died. In the next...

Mar 18, 2016

By Madge Chroniger Alfred Station SDB Church “What are the three most important things in life?” my dad would ask Ellie and me. We would respond, “Faith, family, and education, not necessarily in that order.” This was the conversation we had every morning just before we left the house to get on the bus to go to school. The theme of Conference 2016 has been...

by Katrina Goodrich In case you missed it, in 2014 (two years ago for those like me can never keep track of what year it is now), an SCSC team of three was sent to Jamaica for a project as part of a pilot project between the Women’s Board and the Missionary Society. This inaugural project was to determine the feasibility of an international missions track as...

by Elianna Chroniger Alfred Station SDB Church Alfred Station, NY Everyone always told me that time goes by faster as you “grow up.” I’m just now starting to believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was stepping foot into my first day of high school, my nephews and nieces were babies, and I had AGES to think about what I was going to do with my life. I don’t...