Friendship wins – so does the church
By Carol Bolden “I’m a third-generation Adventist,” explains Julio Arias, a Hispanic church member and field representative for RMC’s planned giving and trust services.…
Adventist community services gets a facelift
By Debbie Jackson Adventist Community Services (ACS) Community LIFT, known colloquially as “The Lift,” has been an important Seventh-day Adventist community service in Denver…
Reflecting the character of God through health
By Rick Mautz A few years ago I provided the “health thought” for an evangelistic series in our area where the evangelist said emphatically,…
Time to start estate planning
By Julio R. Arias Most people avoid or delay estate planning. Perhaps it’s because the term sounds legal and mystifying, but it tends to…
Going Home
By Katie Morrison I spent a year abroad. But it wasn’t even a full year. It wasn’t even a full nine months. But for…
Clutterful nostalgia
By Rajmund Dabrowski My wife doesn’t really like my room. Once, when I offered to exchange rooms with her for a couple of hours…
Church outreach in new attire
By Eric Nelson As the son of an evangelistic pastor, I have very fond childhood memories of participating in my father’s ministry. Evangelism was…
Church planting does not happen overnight
By Godfrey Miranda “Go ye therefore . . .” The great commission entrusted to the first disciples atop the Galilean mountaintop still rings with…
Youth for youth – church for a new generation
By Gary Thurber I will never forget Tom’s prayer. I was only about 12 years old as I stood in a circle of academy…
Communicating the gospel in 2016
By Reinder Bruinsma Last year, some 30,000 new Seventh-day Adventists were baptized as the result of a well-orchestrated, nationwide series of evangelistic campaigns in…