On April 25, 2019, in the chapel of the East Central Africa Division office, there was an historic meeting between the Regional Conference leadership and the Adventist leadership in Africa. The purpose of the meeting -which was called “A Transatlantic Family Reunion”-was to promote understanding, to build bridges and to discuss mission collaboration between people...
Regional Conference Leaders, Breath of Life Speaker and City Officials Break Ground On New Ministry Complex On Friday, April 19, the leadership of the 9 Regional Conferences, the 2 West Coast Union affiliates, the Speaker/Director of the Breath of Life Television Ministry and various Huntsville government leaders-led by Huntsville Mayor, Tommie Battles-broke ground on a...
My wife and I sat before our televisions, utterly transfixed. Neither of us are particularly into golf, but we were into it that day. We had relegated Tiger Woods to the “golfing dead”-at least as far as ever winning anything in golf again-especially not a major tournament and especially-not the Masters. Via text and over...
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....
