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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Feb 27, 2020
by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director This mission could be seen as a back-up mission, or a Plan B mission, or a substitute mission, or an after-thought mission, or a re-directed mission, or a hurry-come-up mission. But God, in His foreknowledge and sovereignty, had it all planned out. And He invited us to join the party. The Miami Seventh Day Baptist Church...
Feb 27, 2020
By Katrina Goodrich Churches today are heavily divided. There are many different ideas between politics, church polity, culture, and the type of music we play for worship. Churches are split between people, families, belief systems, denomination, and so on. Differences in opinion are just fine. Most of us have heard the joke ad nauseum that you put two Seventh...
Feb 27, 2020
By Donna Bond Shiloh SDB Church, NJ “I HATE camping,” a now-departed, well-respected SDB pastor (not my relative) declared, “but it’s a good way to show children how Christians live.” (No doubt it was in his job description and I hasten to add, camping is NOT vacation for a pastor/director!) I became aware of the importance of church camping when we moved to...
By Pastor Phil Lawton Shiloh SDB Church, NJ Back in December, TIME magazine named Greta Thunberg as their person of the year. Whether or not you agree with Greta Thunberg, this seemed like a reasonable choice. Last year she quickly became a household name. This is in no small part because of her stance on climate change. Often discussions of Greta involve...
by Kevin Butler This year’s Conference theme of “Fix Your Eyes on Jesus” carries a dual meaning. We are called to affix our spiritual gaze on the Lord and follow Him (Hebrews 12:2). We might also need to take some corrective action to improve our physical vision so we can read God’s Word more easily. Part of my Conference promotion has been asking people to...
Feb 27, 2020
By Amanda Barbee Reflections from a Camp Board Member As once again the program committee is working hard to find directors, staff, and cooks, I sometimes wonder, in the craziness, why we do this. Then I take a deep breath and reflect and count our blessings. I have had the opportunity to read over the beginning minutes of the camp. They had a vision of...
Feb 27, 2020
By Lyle Sutton Alfred Station SDB Church, NY Reprinted from the Sabbath Recorder 2014 Camp Harley Sutton is the center of church camping for the Seventh Day Baptist Allegheny Association of Churches. The camp is located in Alfred Station, NY, on land that was donated to the Association in 1951 by Dr. and Mrs. H.O. Burdick. In 2000, an adjacent parcel of land...
Feb 27, 2020
By Damian Greene Do you have a smell that quickly moves you to another time and place? Is it a pie baking, a forest after a rainstorm, a turkey in the oven, or a pine tree just after being cut? For me, it’s the smell of bug spray. Any bug spray can act as a portal to take me back in time to another place. It is loud and exciting, and young people far outnumber...