The crisis began a few weeks ago when the Pearl River in Jackson, Mississippi flooded because of major rainstorms in the area. The flooding forced the city’s largest water treatment plant to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely. This left the residents of Jackson with no access to safe water to drink. The city...
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Getting Rid of Junk
A bane of existence for Pastors in the Adventist Church is having to move from one location to another. While most Pastors accept getting moved from place to place as a part of what comes with being a Pastor, I believe the longer a Pastor is in ministry and the older he/she gets, the more...
South Atlantic Conference Elects New President, Some Departmental Leaders and Makes Significant Constitutional Changes
On Sunday, September 11, a little under 900 delegates gathered at the South Atlantic Conference campground in Orangeburg, South Carolina for its 26th Quinquennial Session. Those delegates elected Elder Calvin B. Preston as President of the 55,000 member conference, which is headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. Elder Preston has spent all of his 47 year ministry...
South Central Conference Re-Elects President Benjamin Jones – Makes Administrative, Departmental and Constitutional Changes
On July 24, approximately 800 delegates met at the Oakwood University Church for their Fifth Quinquennial Session. After the devotional by Elder Roger Bernard, President, Central States Conference, the delegates began addressing the business of the day. They voted to take the unprecedented step of suspending the rules to allow for the submission of up...
The Passing of Elder Daniel R. Jackson – The Loss of a Brother
This website includes the statements of the Regional Conference leadership and the statements of the North American Division (NAD) leadership on the recent passing of former NAD President, Elder Daniel R. Jackson. I would like to briefly share my thoughts as well. Elder Jackson was an extraordinary leader who never acted as if he saw...
Getting Back to Work
I heard a powerful sermon several years ago at PELC by Pastor Orville Brissett. He is currently a Pastor in the Allegheny East Conference; I think he was in Allegheny West at the time—or perhaps, it was Southeastern Conference (he served in both). In any event, Pastor Brissett preached on my favorite Bible character—Elijah. Elijah...
Former NAD President Daniel R. Jackson Passes to His Rest
On Sabbath morning, July 23, 2022, Daniel R. Jackson, former president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, passed to his rest after several months of battling cancer. He was 73. Jackson, who served the Adventist Church for 49 years, retired in July 2020 after serving as NAD president for a decade. As president,...
“Second Tuesday” – ORCM/RCRP Worships With Regional Conference Office Staff
The ORCM/RCRP staffs instituted a new program this year. It is called “Second Tuesday”. On the second Tuesday of each month, the office staff of the Office for Regional Conference Ministries (ORCM) and the Regional Conference Retirement Plan (RCRP) change their daily staff worship schedule to have morning worship with a different Regional Conference Office...
Statement from the Regional Conference Leadership on the Passing of Elder Daniel R. Jackson
Daniel R. Jackson in the NAD headquarter’s C. D. Brooks Chapel [photo by Pieter Damsteegt/NAD] The Regional Presidents Council, the Office for Regional Conference Ministries (ORCM) and the Regional Conference Retirement Plan (RCRP) wish to express our great sorrow on the passing of our colleague, our friend and our brother, Elder Daniel R. Jackson, former...
Lake Region Re-Elects President and Selects Administrative and Departmental Staff
On July 17, 2022, approximately 600 delegates met at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan for its quadrennial session. After re-electing President Garth Gabriel to his first full term as Conference President (Elder Gabriel became President when Dr. R. Clifford Jones accepted a call to become...