Apr 26, 2019
By Katrina Goodrich The past month or two have been a struggle for the midwest. In Nebraska this spring, a record amount of snowfall turned our serene valleys and plains into flooded heartache. Whole communities and towns were underwater and/or cut off from outside aid due to flooding or severe infrastructure deterioration. Livelihoods, passed down through...
Apr 26, 2019
by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director, SDB Missionary Society Here I am today, having begun a new journey in my life. In my own mind and heart, it is still sinking in and being processed that I am serving as the newly appointed Chief Executive Director of the SDB Missionary Society. Seventh Day Baptists have been a meaningful part of my life for the entire...
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. An additional 20 million experience severe pain that limits their normal movement and activities. All of us experience pain at some time in our lives. For most, the pain lingers for a short while and then is...
By Pastor Scott Hausrath North Loup SDB Church, NE Is a part of your life feeling stark, or cold, or even dead? Perhaps your marriage, though it began on a warm spring day, is now feeling the bitter chill of winter. Perhaps your job is no longer the source of excitement and joy that it used to be. Maybe even your relationship with God lacks the fire that it...
Mar 20, 2019
By Sarina Villalpando Maranatha Community Church, Colton, CA Focus is vital in our Christian walk, but most of the time it is the hardest thing to do. Lately I’ve been very bad at focusing on pretty much everything, but most importantly my walk in faith and putting everything to God. When you get caught up in life, it’s hard—you forget the important and to put...
Mar 20, 2019
By Janet Thorngate, Chairman, SDB Council on History People sleuthing their family history often discover that in the process of building that endless genealogy chart, the quest for illusive details draws them deeper and deeper into an ancestor’s world. Suddenly they are “into history” (though they never “liked history”) and the name on the chart becomes a real...