SDB Exec Blog
2012-02-22
Kevin Butler
Church Planting was a topic of concern and desire at our recent General Council meetings. This information came from "Project Jerusalem," a church-planting ministry of Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, PA. We thank Pastor Ken Chroniger for the link. More info here.
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Church planting seems to be in vogue today across North America, attracting hundreds of young...
2012-02-21
Kevin Butler
Liz Green revisits her 10-year-old article on Bible study, written as an "average church-goer." How does she approach the Bible now-- after a seminary degree and ordination? Also, Paul Manuel stresses the six vital aspects of context when we study God's Word.
The March 2012 Sabbath Recorder is available on-line here. We pray that you are challenged and encouraged. Thanks so much for...
2012-02-21
Rob Appel
On February 16th, Kevin Butler blogged about the upcoming mid-Conference meetings of the CLT (Coordinating Leadership Team - who are the agency executives or presidents) and General Council (the CLT + six elected members and the Memorial Fund President), and I want to share with you the character in which these meetings were conducted.
On the 16th Kevin asked for your...
2012-02-18
Althea Rood
"Making Your Steps Count" is a fundraising event of the Seventh Day Baptist Women of USA & Canada, Ltd. to support our sisters in Malawi. Put your best foot forward and count the steps or miles you walk, run, dance, zumba, skip, etc. to raise funds so that our sisters in Malawi can go to their next SDB Women's Conference. The Seventh Day Baptist Women's...
2012-02-17
Andrew J. Camenga
PreCon is coming. Plan to attend! Encourage others to come.
The first Youth PreCon flyer is out.
More information will come soon. Here is a sneak peek at the basic details:
July 25-29, 2012
Youth PreCon
Director: Pastor Paul Andries
Theme: No Turning Back
Location: Camp JOY, Berea, WV
Young Adult PreCon
Director: Pastor Steve Graffius
Theme: GIGO
Location: West...
2012-02-16
Kevin Butler
The mid-Conference year meetings of the CLT (Coordinating Leadership Team) and the General Council kick off on Friday, February 17. Some members are already traveling toward the upper Midwest as we plan to gather at the SDB Center in Janesville, Wisconsin.
CLT members (the agency executives or presidents) start on Friday morning; General Council begins at suppertime on Saturday evening. At this...
2012-02-10
Kevin Butler
My wife and I saw a preview for a movie called “The Vow.” It’s about a young couple involved in a car accident, and the wife’s injury causes her to lose any memory of being married. It’s an adaptation of a true story.
Knowing many other real-life situations involving memory loss and the strain that puts on relationships, this story from...
2012-02-04
Kevin Butler
One SDB pastor (who shall remain nameless, but he lives in Alfred Station, N.Y.) mentioned that this blog was fairly silent this year about all things "Super Bowl."
Okay, so the Green Bay Packers were eliminated from contention a few weeks ago, and the SDB Center is housed in Wisconsin, and we made a big deal about the Packers winning it all last year...
So, in the interest of almost-equal...
2012-02-03
Rob Appel
The 2012 Directory of the Seventh Day Baptist Yearbook is in the works. At the first of the year a sheet with the 2011 statitics was sent out to every church of the SDB General Conference. We asked that you make the necessary changes to that form and send it back to the SDB Center by the end of February. The reason for this is that it gives you ample time to 1.) collect the...
2012-02-02
Althea Rood
A new SCSC (Summer Christian Service Corps) cookbook has been sent to the publisher. It contains 580 recipes submitted by Seventh Day Baptists Included are 25 recipes from Vivian Looper, SCSC Cook for twenty-four years.
A project of the Seventh Day Baptist Women's Society, the proceeds from the cookbooks will help support the SCSC program. Cost...
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