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...
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History The Council on History met in Janesville, WI, at the SDB Center the weekend of May 4-5, 2019. Council members Janet Thorngate (chair), Judy Parrish, Kim Merchant, Tim Lawton, and Elon Sinclair, as well as consultant Elizabeth Camenga and Director Nick Kersten, met to evaluate and organize the work of...
Jun 26, 2019
By Patty Petersen In business circles, a CRM is the main storage system for all things customer-related. For our Conference, it’s a central database for all things church-related, a “Church Relationship Management” tool. Churches are made up of people, so we also have information on individual Seventh Day Baptists, as well as those connected to us through...
Jun 26, 2019
By Marqueta Aiken Philadelphia SDB Church As you grow in the Lord you come to realize that your greatest blessings follow a difficult journey. That’s how it was with “The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations”1—fortunately God’s grace truly is amazing. On September 23, 2019, a group of twelve members and soon-to-be members of the Philadelphia SDB Church began a...
May 28, 2019
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History In 1994, for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Sabbath Recorder, Editor Kevin Butler oversaw the production of a special issue which detailed the history of the publication. In it, the authors detailed the changes over the Recorder’s life to that point, as well as some of the key figures...
By Katrina Goodrich The world is a smaller place than it was in 1844. The newest communication technology released that year was the telegraph. Today we have cell phones and the internet; we can hop on an airplane and be halfway around the world in less than a day. But while the world is a smaller place today, the distance between people is larger than ever. I...