By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 Australian journalist Matthew Knott is a 32-year-old U.S. correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was in New York City earlier...
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By Carl Greene Executive Director If your answer to this inquiry about a “Questionable Life” is no, then your church may not be healthy. Really. A questionable life is necessary...
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The global coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of North Americans. Developing and maintaining healthy leaders and...
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Focus on Missions By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Jesus has a master plan for transforming the world. His plan is that through the power of the...
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Jun 23, 2020
By Katrina Goodrich Tragic circumstances tend to make me introspective. This year there’s been plenty of tragedy to go around the entire world affecting its over 7 billion inhabitants. Life, this year, is turning out quite differently than expected—but maybe the interruption to our regularly scheduled lives can teach us something if we listen. Right now the...
Jun 23, 2020
By Carl Greene Executive Director I was probably 8 years old when I asked my grandfather how he plowed a straight line across the field. The field was covered in sod and had no rows to follow to know a straight path. I was amazed by how he could do this—was it some sort of internal compass that develops when you get old? You probably...
Jun 23, 2020
Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society One of the great joys of my job with the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society is the enriching experience of working with, sharing with, ministering with, and communicating with people of a variety of ethnicities from six continents in the world. I also feel especially blessed...
by Kevin Butler Earlier this spring, déjà vu happened all over again. I was asked to be Conference President. This was after I spent a whole year assuring people at the church I serve that the presidency was a “one-and-done” assignment, that NO ONE ever serves for two years, and that by the end of this July my tasks and...
By Sarina Gumness “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two...
Jun 23, 2020
Stonefort SDB Church Celebrates 149 Years Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only eight were in attendance at the Church’s 149th Annual Homecoming on May 16, 2020. There was no shortage of spirit and love as there was singing and praise reports during the service. Pastor Glenn Lewis brought the message and communion was held at the close of the service. Plans...
By Pastor Phil Lawton I write today with a heavy heart. Not just because we all witnessed a man murdered on video. Not just because our country is divided and our cities burn. But because the divisions that plague our country are at work in my own church. This is not the place for me to get into details, but I say this because I want...
By John J. Pethtel, Director The Stephanie Sholtz Wellness Fund Stephanie Sholtz was a friend to many SDB pastors and their families. Her heart and career choices led her into the counseling profession where she used her training to assist in helping others cope with the stresses of life and ministry. Her tragic death in 2017 was...