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 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...
Jun 26, 2019
By Donna S. Bond Shiloh SDB Church, NJ “Aw, Dave, let Grampa rest for a few minutes. Just till the big hand is on the 12.” With that request, Grampa leaned back on his recliner and closed his eyes. Groan. That left Grandma to entertain our five-year-old grandson. Understand: I love, love, LOVE our little David Timothy. But he was headed outside. I don’t “do”...
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
By Rev. D. Scott Smith The Sabbath Recorder Editor, 1982-1989 A few years ago, our family did something that Seventh Day Baptists began doing in 1871. We packed up our material possessions and resettled in North Loup, Nebraska. The first settlers came here seeking open land to farm. They wanted a place that was free from the “overcrowding” they were...
May 28, 2019
By Kevin Butler The Sabbath Recorder Editor, 1989-2014 “It takes a village to raise a child.” That phrase goes back years before Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book, and likely before the first Sabbath Recorder was printed in 1844. The adage is said to have originated in Africa. Louise Hudson, a contributor at quora.com—a website devoted to the origin of English...
by Jeremiah Owen Director of Communications In 1844, on the western side of North America (prior to California being a state), the first European laid eyes on Lake Tahoe and, on the eastern side of the continent, the first Sabbath Recorder rolled off the presses. It’s with great honor and respect that I am able to look back and survey the one hundred and...