By Nicholas Kersten The SDB Christian Education Council is proud to announce the winner of the Mary G. Clare Scripture Memory Bowl, for greatest total participation in the 2019-2020 Scripture Memory program is the New York City, NY, SDB Church with 25 participants in this year’s program. The winner of the Andrew J. Camenga Award, for greatest...
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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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Resiliency: Rediscovering Peace in a Season of Change
Aug 30, 2020
Pastors and Spouses Forum By Carl Greene John Pethtel, SDB Director of Church Development and Pastoral Services, welcomed and virtually hosted pastors and spouses at the forum held on Thursday, July 30. Adrienne Graffius shared about “Building Resiliency.” Adrienne’s perspective is especially insightful through her role as a SDB Pastor’s Spouse (Pastor...
Kid Con 2020
Aug 30, 2020
By Elianna McHenry Kid Con 2020 was a little different this year! We missed out on seeing each other in person, but we still made our best from it! Parents and kids were able to watch opening and closing videos that were provided to us through the curriculum every day. Music videos with all the dance moves you could imagine gave everyone an opportunity to get...
“It’ll only hurt for a little while”
Aug 30, 2020
Countdown to Conference 2021 By President Kevin Butler When Pastor La Juana Morris was younger, she admits that she was extremely clumsy. Let’s just say that “Grace” was not her middle name. She said that if there was a piece of string on the living room floor, she would trip over it. When someone fell in La Juana’s home, her mother would come to the rescue...
Hymn Sing
Aug 30, 2020
Pastor Kevin Butler had asked us to do a hymn sing for Conference in Grand Rapids this summer. So Pastor John Pethtel asked us to videotape a hymn sing for the virtual conference. We asked our Shiloh folks if they could come to church one evening and sing with us (safely and 6 feet apart!) so we would have a fuller sound. Some people did come out—and we sang...
Gospel Feet 5K – Running to Beat COVID-19
Aug 29, 2020
By Eric Bofinger This year’s Gospel Feet 5k was a huge success! Despite not being able to race in person, the SDBs banded together and took on the challenge of running, walking, or even swimming a 5k, in order to raise money for global missions. Everyone stood behind this year’s scripture verse from Acts 20:24: “My only aim is to finish the race and complete...
Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus in All of Scripture
Aug 29, 2020
John 5:39-40 and 2 Timothy 3:14-17 By Matthew Butler I lied. When I was in 4th grade, I thought it’d be “cool” to wear glasses. So, I lied. I told my parents and teachers that I was having a hard time seeing the board. I would intentionally “strain” my eyes and squint in order to display my “struggle.” Truth is, I could see just fine. But I wanted to be “cool”...
Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus as Our Hope
Aug 29, 2020
Titus 2:11-14 By Matthew Butler On May 6, 1967, Robert Wideman found himself tumbling through the clear skies over North Vietnam. The control stick on his A-4 Skyhawk jet had jammed and there was nothing he could do to prevent the plane from spiraling downward. He launched his ejection seat and his parachute opened above him. Immediately after touching ground,...