Jun 2, 2015
Growing Your Church Recipe Clinton R. Brown, Executive Director In March 2015, I visited the small Seventh Day Baptist fellowship in Indonesia. They are the only congregation in their primarily Muslim country and their group has shrunk to a handful of faithful believers after a series of deaths in their leadership and a subsequent move to a different community...
Mar 25, 2015
The Family Pilgrimage Garfield Miller, Missions Coordinator, Jamaica A pilgrimage intimates a spiritual journey with the hope of an ultimate destination. Jesus’ family had a special experience on their annual spiritual journey to the Passover Feast in Jerusalem, when Jesus was twelve years old. On their return trip Mary and Joseph realized that Jesus was...
Feb 25, 2015
Focus on Missions Clinton R. Brown As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: (and recounted in the Gospel of Mark) “BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY; THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.’” Isaiah 40:3 For centuries, Seventh Day...
Jan 22, 2015
Love is Not for Wimps Clinton R. Brown Executive Director SDB Missionary Society A lot of times it seems that when we think of love we think of delicate or soft things like lace, teddy bears, heart pillows, balloons, or flowers. But when we look at love as demonstrated in the Bible, we get the picture of...
Dec 30, 2014
Putting First Things First by Clinton R. Brown The New Year is often a time that people reflect on the direction their life has been headed and look at their goals for the coming year. Establishing goals is an effective early step to accomplish the things that we feel are important. However, many times we do not give serious evaluation to the goals...
Nov 26, 2014
The Missionaries Have Not Come by Clinton R. Brown In the northern region of Zambia, not far from the boarder of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are about twenty-two Seventh Day Baptist congregations. Some groups have well over a hundred and other groups are as small as a dozen. They come together each...