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Macedonia Members Support Better Living Thru Faith

Story by Taashi Rowe; Photo by Patricia Wagner

Members of Allegheny East Conference’s Macedonia church in Chester, Pa., have taken a flying leap of faith. Looking around their community they saw many of their neighbors in need and wondered how they could help. So after surveying residents, they renovated an empty building on their property to the tune of $100,000 and are now using it as a community center. Calling it the Better Living Center, members opened the center last fall. The building has a nearly $90,000-a-year operating budget and the church, which has a membership of 70, is committed to supporting this project to the tune of $30,000 annually.  READ MORE AND SEE PHOTOS
 


Allegheny West Delegates Vote Officers, Face Tough Numbers

Story and photos by Taashi Rowe

Yesterday at the Allegheny West Conference’s Third Quadrennial Constituency Session, some 220 delegates gathered at the Ephesus church in Columbus, Ohio, and elected William T. Cox, president; Marvin Brown, executive secretary; and Zenobia Seward, treasurer. Cox was re-elected after serving 17 months as president; Seward after 12 years as treasurer. Brown previously headed the conference’s Ministerial Association, Stewardship Ministries and Trust Services.  READ MORE AND VIEW SLIDESHOW
 


Columbia Union Leaders Discuss Young Adult Attrition
Whole Church Solution Needed, Speaker Says

Story by Taashi Rowe

A. Allan Martin, PhD, didn’t mince words. A former professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University (Mich.) and a current young adult pastor at a thriving church in Texas, Martin hit the members of the Columbia Union Conference Executive Committee with stark numbers: some 60 to 70 percent of young people leave the Seventh-day Adventist Church. READ MORE AND VIEW SLIDESHOW
 


World’s Largest Southern Asian Adventist Church Celebrates 25 Years

Story by Richard Christian

Just this weekend, Potomac Conference’s Southern Asian church (SASDAC) in Silver Spring, Md., celebrated 25 years of ministry. The church, which began with 50 members in 1988, has grown to more than 850 making it the largest Southern Asian Seventh-day Adventist church in the world, according to Franklin David, who has pastored the church since its inception.  READ MORE AND VIEW SLIDESHOW