Dodge Center SDB Church, MN The Dodge Center Seventh Day Baptist Church celebrated the 160th Anniversary of their legal organization on June 29, 2019, by celebrating their past and looking forward to the future life and ministry of this body. The morning worship included hymns “O Worship the King” and “At Calvary;” a saxophone solo by Althea Rood accompanied by...
Church Development & Pastoral Service Update: December 2019
Nov 26, 2019
By John J. Pethtel Director, Church Development & Pastoral Services Multiply Conference SDBs gathered in Colorado Springs to learn about “From Unbeliever to Church Planter” during the 5th annual MULTIPLY Church Development Conference. Twenty-five SDBs from many different churches came together on Thursday, November 14, 2019, for a pre-conference event with...
Becoming a Dementia-Friendly Faith Community
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI Dementia is NOT normal aging. It is a diagnosis: an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer’s disease may be the first to come to mind when dementia is mentioned but...
Adopt Authenticity for the Holidays and Beyond
By Katrina Goodrich Authenticity. Take a moment to let that word sink into your bones and meditate on its meaning. It has become a buzz word within the business community in recent years because many people have realized that the more authentic and genuine their brand and company seems (and hopefully is) the better their product or service sells. The church...
A Second Invitation
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...
Intentionality
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...