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...
On Sunday, October 16th, 600 plus delegates met in the Metropolitan Activity Center at the Metropolitan SDA Church in Hyattsville, Maryland for the Second Quinquennial Session of the Allegheny East Conference. The theme was “More Than Conquerors”, and the emphasis was on all of the unprecedented things that the Allegheny East Conference had faced of...
On June 18, 2022, church members offer blood pressure checks during the Willingboro, New Jersey, Juneteenth festival. Photo provided by Carl McRoy For the second year in a row, Willingboro Seventh-day Adventist Church hands out literature, offers blood pressure checks and healthful living advice in the annual Juneteenth festival. On June 18, 2022, church members...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
