I was getting ready to do a Week of Prayer-back in the days when we still had them. I was packing my things in my office, when my daughter came in. She was a little girl then-maybe about 7 years old. “What are you preaching, Daddy?” I named a sermon that I often used during...
The brand new Charles E. Dudley, Sr. Center for Regional Conference Ministries has some brand new employees! Let’s meet them: Gerson Pancorbo, Communications Director, Office for Regional Conference Ministries (ORCM)/Regional Conference Retirement Plan (RCRP) Gerson Pancorbo is a native of Jaen, Spain. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in audiovisual communications from Valencia University. He...
In my family-especially between my youngest sister and I-we have an expression that we use with some degree of regularity. When something is not very good, my sister and I say that it is “sorry”. My sister became a big football fan after she became an adult (after showing zero interest in any kind of...
Pastor Kirk Nugent recently accepted a call to become the Media Pastor for the Oakwood University SDA Church. It is believed that he becomes the first person to hold that position in a Regional Conference church. This groundbreaking appointment comes after years of preparation. Pastor Nugent was born in New York but he was raised...
The ORCM (Office for Regional Conference Ministries)/RCRP (Regional Conference Retirement Plan (RCRP) office family recently gained a new member. He is Brendon Henfield and he joins the Treasury team as an accountant. Brother Henfield is a native of Nassau, Bahamas. He is the younger of two sons. He is a “double” graduate of Oakwood University,...
On November 22, an international and interfaith group from Europe toured the Charles E. Dudley, Sr. Center for Regional Conference Ministries on the campus of Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama. The visit was arranged by Global Ties Alabama, which is a non-profit partner of the U.S. State Department. It is designed to bring current and...
On October 18, the new Office of Regional Conference Ministries headquarters-the Elder Charles E. Dudley, Sr., Center for Regional Conference Ministries-was dedicated. This project was nearly 5 years in the making. It had to work around a world-wide pandemic, construction delays, supply chain issues, labor shortages and other serious challenges. But the Lord prevailed and...
