Nov 26, 2019
By Carl Greene Executive Director In my first season of high school sports, my team went 2 and 12. That would be 2 wins and 12 losses. It was a character-building year to say the least. The second season brought a winning record, but we still lost some close games that we really could have won. We lost in the waning moments of those games because we had allowed...
Oct 24, 2019
By Carl Greene Executive Director Be careful who you travel with. I wish my mother had taught me that lesson more thoroughly. Traveling with Nick Kersten, SDB Director of Education and History, can be…interesting. While one can use “interesting” on a number of levels when traveling with Nick, I want to focus on intentionality and evangelism. Nick had...
By Carl Greene Executive Director Thank you. Thank you for praying for individual churches and their communities, for pastors and their families, for SDB Directors and staff of the General Conference along with their families, and for the work of the General Conference as a whole. Every time you pray, you participate in advancing God’s kingdom—what a blessing....
By Rob Appel Executive Director This is my last article in the Sabbath Recorder (SR) as your standing Executive Director of the SDB Conference of the USA and Canada. Because it is the last one, I plan to make it very informative—and I hope that it motivates you to think more about your giving along with the reason(s) you give to our Conference Ministries. When...
By Rob Appel Executive Director It seems that today many people seem to thrive by being in conflict. They seem to always be picking on other people, sometimes arguing, or disagreeing, or just trying to get something riled up. They pick fights just for the fun of it, not because they passionately believe in a particular cause; they simply want to “stir the pot.”...
By Rob Appel On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech where he was heard saying, “I have a dream.” What followed this speech was a vision that changed a people and changed a nation. That famous speech is a dramatic example of the power that can be generated by communicating a compelling vision for the future. A clear vision is an essential...