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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Mar 24, 2020
By Rev. Charles R. Meathrell Recently, the associate pastor at our church in South Carolina had an emergency and was unable to preach as had been planned. Because I hadn’t prepared a sermon, we found ourselves preparing to enjoy a sermon which would be as much a surprise to me as to them. It’s not all that long ago that a situation like that might have set my...
Mar 24, 2020
By Garfield Miller Director of Outreach SDB Missionary Society In the podcast What is Love by John Piper (Founder and Teacher, desiringGod.org), he defines love in two ways: “love of complacency”—because something is pleasing; and “love of benevolence”—to bring about something beautiful. Based on these definitions we can know with confidence that what we...
Feb 27, 2020
By Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History My Christian experience has been deeply impacted by Camp Wakonda, the SDB camp owned and operated by the Milton, WI, church. I was loved well there as a little person at Day Camp and shown and told about the love of Jesus. As a camper at Wakonda, I was taught the faith and ultimately responded to a...
Feb 27, 2020
By Valerie Probasco Jersey Oaks Camp, located on 12 acres of fields and woodlands in Salem County just outside of Shiloh, NJ, will be turning 60 years old this year. This article could tell you a detailed history of its inception, but let’s take another perspective. A generational perspective. There are some families of our congregation who now have the fourth...
Feb 27, 2020
By Katie Moore Next Step Christian Church, Boulder, CO Camp Paul Hummel—Camp Coordinator “Wouldn’t this make a great church camp?” Mary asked her father, Paul. Eight-year-old Mary and her father had walked up the mountainside and came across a beautiful ranch in the foothills of Boulder, Colorado. Several years later Paul read the property was for sale in order...
Feb 27, 2020
By Pastor Scott Hausrath One of the things I enjoy most about church camp is playing. I’m just a kid in an adult’s body, so I really love playing the classic campfire games, e.g., Prince of Paris, Mrs. Mumbles, and Psychiatrist. I don’t participate in the “recreation” times as much as I used to (getting old!), but I like seeing the campers having a blast with...
Feb 27, 2020
By Sarina Gumness The story of Gideon can be seen as a story of trusting God to lead us step by step. In a time of unsureness, of not fully feeling the belief in ourselves, we can trust that there will be a positive result and we will come out on top. Gideon’s story starts with him threshing wheat in a wine press to hide it from the Midianites so they could not...
Feb 27, 2020
By Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten In the summer of 1995, Alex Ferguson had a decision to make. His Manchester United soccer team was one of the most famous in the world, but they had not won a major competition the previous season, narrowly losing several close important games. Three of his best players were aging and nearing the end of their careers. Ferguson, as...