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 18, 2016
by Dr. Michael Jordan Dean of the Chapel Chair of the Department of Biblical Studies Theology and Philosophy One Houghton College, Houghton, NY On behalf of the faculty, staff, and administration of Houghton College, please accept my warm welcome to our workplace and home. Houghton was founded in 1883 by Willard J. Houghton, who was born in this tiny town 58...
Mar 18, 2016
2nd in a series celebrating the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society Centennial by Janet Thorngate It was thirty-five years ago that I first saw the picture. Four men and one woman, posed formally in front of an ivy-covered wall, impressive, yet at ease in their fashionable 1920s attire. Who were they? And why worthy of an 8 x 10 print mounted on pressed grey...
Mar 18, 2016
Pastor C. Rex Burdick was born in Boulder, CO. At age 11 he was baptized and joined the DeRuyter, NY, SDB Church. He went to Salem (WV) College, and at the beginning of his senior year married Bette Lippincott. They had five children (Douglas, Norman, Carole, Martha, and Pamela) in ten years. While they were serving in Riverside, CA, Bette died. In the next...
Mar 18, 2016
By Madge Chroniger Alfred Station SDB Church “What are the three most important things in life?” my dad would ask Ellie and me. We would respond, “Faith, family, and education, not necessarily in that order.” This was the conversation we had every morning just before we left the house to get on the bus to go to school. The theme of Conference 2016 has been...
by Katrina Goodrich In case you missed it, in 2014 (two years ago for those like me can never keep track of what year it is now), an SCSC team of three was sent to Jamaica for a project as part of a pilot project between the Women’s Board and the Missionary Society. This inaugural project was to determine the feasibility of an international missions track as...
by Elianna Chroniger Alfred Station SDB Church Alfred Station, NY Everyone always told me that time goes by faster as you “grow up.” I’m just now starting to believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was stepping foot into my first day of high school, my nephews and nieces were babies, and I had AGES to think about what I was going to do with my life. I don’t...
Mar 18, 2016
by Rev. Brent Hannah Pastor at Salem, WV, Seventh Day Baptist Church How many times have you traveled to a foreign country not knowing the people with whom you would travel, meet, stay, and work? How many times have you gone to a new place not knowing where you would stay, what you would eat, how you would get around, or even who would pick you up from the...
Feb 22, 2016
Phil Lawton SDB Church of Shiloh, NJ It’s Easter, so you might think that I am going to be talking about bunnies and eggs and pastel colors. Nope. I want to talk about Zombies. Yes, you heard me right…Zombies. At this point some of you might be thinking I have gone off the deep end. Well, I might have, but that is not why I am talking about Zombies. A few...