This past February, the Madison Campus SDA Church in Madison, Tennessee celebrated Black History Month. As February is National Black History Month, a church celebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans would not seem to be note-worthy at all. Except the church celebrating Black History Month was not an African-American church. It was the Madison Campus Church,...
Elder Henry Fordham, President Allegheny East Conference In ministry 44 years Hometown: Philadelphia, PA BA: Theology, Oakwood University BA: History, Oakwood University; MA: Jewish History, Ohio State University Married to Sharon Fordham (Wright) Hometown: Germantown, OH – The Fordham’s have been married for 55 years. They have 4 children (1 deceased), 10 grands, 2...
When I was a child growing up Seventh-day Adventist in Cleveland, Ohio, people would ask, “What is a Seventh-day Adventist?” The answer that I would hear most often is (or give most often) came from a laundry lists of things that Seventh-day Adventist did not do-at least, in those days: ”Seventh-day Adventists’ go to church...
Ms. Sheree Brown is the newly elected Treasurer/CFO of the Southeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Ms. Brown is originally from Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. She reports that she is the “baby” of 6 siblings – 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Her parents still reside in Jamaica. The family comes from an Anglican background but...
We live in a very divided country, as far as politics are concerned. It is hard to find a cable news program where, if people are on the air discussing an issue where they disagree with each other, they do not wind up talking over each other and yelling at each other. We live in...
As the child of a United States Army solider and as a denominational employee, Jeannie Wright has lived in many places, from Panama (where she was born) to Hawaii, to (in no particular order), Alabama, California, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She has worked in corporate America, in academia and for the Seventh-day Adventist Church....
Southwest Region Conference: Elder Harold Goodloe, from South Central Conference, to New Orleans Ephesus Pastor Laurent Grosvenor, from South Central Conference, to Austin Alpha South Central Conference: Elder Ennis V. Johnson, from Southwest Region, to Jackson New Heights Elder Roger Wade, from South Central, to Youth/Young Adult Ministries, Mid-America Union Ms. Jeannie Wright, from South Central, to Associate Vice President of Human Resources, Washington Adventist University
Black Lives Matter originated as the result of a hashtag from social media from three ladies, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi as a call for action after the killing of Trayvon Martin and subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman. #Black Lives Matter caught the nation by storm and was at the forefront of many...
“The Living Know That They Shall Die”- But Their Survivors Do Not Have A Clue: Three Ways to Minister to the Bereaved “For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything”. Ecclesiastes 9:5. That text is one of the first texts that any Seventh-day Adventist uses in a Bible study...
