The Regional Conferences of the North American Division were blessed by God to receive approximately 191 million dollars in tithe in 2020. That compares with approximately 195 million dollars in 2019. That means that even though the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented closing down of the economy, unemployment unseen since the Great Depression and...
It pops up each year around this time-at least, for the past several years. The Pastors Evangelists and Leadership Conference (PELC) has a long-standing tradition of inviting non-Adventist Pastors to speak at one of the evening worship services. Of late, this seems to be a problem for some. Everyone has the right to their own...
At the weekly staff meeting of the Office for Regional Conference Ministries (ORCM), the subject of the recently completed third and final building phase of Oakwood Adventist Academy (OAA) came up. The third phase involved the building of a facility that would house Grades 9-12. Some of the staff had attended this historic event and...
On July 1, 2020, Pastor Chanda Nunes made Black Adventist history by becoming the first African-American female Lead, or Senior Pastor, of an institutional church in the North American Division. An institutional church is a church that is connected to an institution-often, an educational institution-often a college or a university. Almost always, those churches are...
2020 has been a year of uncertainties. This year filled us with highs and lows on every level as we have been taken from one extreme to the next. The arrival and devastating effects of COVID-19 continued economic disparities among various ethnic groups, politically instability at multiple levels of government, the unfortunate and hateful attacks...
It is my personal belief that Pastors should remain publicly non-partisan in political matters. First of all, our job as Pastors is to take the gospel “to every creature”-which means, to everyone and to everywhere-in blue states and red states. We live in a very polarized country. If as a Pastor, we take a partisan...
On Thursday, November 19, 2020, the Mid-American Union Executive Committee elected Dr. Hubert J. Morel Executive Secretary of that Union. He replaces the current Executive Secretary, Elder Gil Webb, who is retiring at the end of the year. Dr. Morel was born in Port of Prince, Haiti. His family immigrated to the United States when...
On November 17, 2020, Rupert Salmon of the Spokane, Washington area became a trailblazer: He bought the television station operated by the Upper Columbia Conference and thus became one of the few black television station owners and in all likelihood became the first black Seventh-day Adventist station owner. His journey began in Kingston, Jamaica. He...
