by Nicholas Kersten | Mar 23, 2020 | Conference News, SDB News
Today, the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Jerome Adams, suggested that America should get ready and that a bad week was coming in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged Americans, “…to be taking the right steps, right now.” The data and...
by John Pethtel | Mar 17, 2020 | Church Development, Church News, Conference News, General Council, Pastoral Services, SDB Exec Blog, SDB News
March 17, 2020 Dear Seventh Day Baptists, Yesterday, President Trump issued new guidelines for the public in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. You may be seeing the implementation of many of those guidelines in your community such as the closure of gyms/...
by John Pethtel | Mar 15, 2020 | Church Development, Church News, Conference News, Council on Ministry, General Council, Pastoral Services, School of Ministry, SDB Exec Blog, SDB News
To my SDB Pastor Colleagues, After meeting with General Council on Friday, March 13 and in considering the timelines for many closures, the uncertainty of travel, the restrictions of bi-vocational employers, and the advice of the state of Colorado Health Department,...
by John Pethtel | Mar 13, 2020 | Church News, Conference News, General Council, Pastoral Services, SDB Exec Blog, SDB News
Dear Seventh Day Baptists, I wanted to take a moment to address the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and what our response as the bride of Christ (the church) should look like amid the fear, concern, and chaos that we are witnessing throughout North America. As I am...
by Carl Greene | Feb 26, 2020 | Christian Education, Church Development, Conference News, Education, School of Ministry, SDB Exec Blog, Uncategorized
“Kingdom-seekers teach another’s truth. They sow God’s seed, not their own ideas. Different farmers may have different ways of sowing, but the seed is vital. So the kingdom-seeker is not preoccupied with style or method, but with communicating God’s truth. And...
by Carl Greene | Feb 19, 2020 | Christian Social Action, Conference News, SDB Exec Blog, Uncategorized
As posted on January 15th, 2020, there was a very real and present need in Puerto Rico following a series of earthquakes. Infrastructure and personal property, which was just beginning to be rebuilt after the disastrous hurricanes in 2017, was struck once again. And...
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