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Applications Open For the Lucy Board Scholarship

2024 Adventist HealthCare Lucy Board Scholarship

Story by Adventist HealthCare Staff

The Lucy Byard Scholarship was created to honor the legacy of Lucy Byard and to reaffirm Adventist HealthCare’s commitment to treat all people with respect and dignity. The scholarship will provide needed funding to gifted nursing students of limited financial means.

In this way, Adventist HealthCare will contribute to the greater effort to close the health-disparities and economic-inequity gaps among people of color. Learn more at AdventistHealthCare.com/LucyByardScholarship.

Mountain View Conference Introduces New Prayer Team

Story by Liz Bailey

The Mountain View Conference (MVC) is happy to introduce a new prayer team, comprised of Beth Ackman, Elaine Buchanan, Jenny Gorospe and Gary
Riley.

MVC members can call the prayer team with prayer requests or listen to a devotional every evening at 7 p.m. and every Monday morning at 7 a.m. Callers are even invited to pray with the group if they wish to do so.

Potomac Conference: A Century of Growth

Visit pcsda.org for more information on the activities that will highlight this year’s centennial celebration.

Story by Debra Anderson

It was a historic moment in April 1924, when the Virginia Conference, with 21 churches and 677 members, and the District of Columbia Conference, with 12 churches and 1,523 members, combined to form the Potomac Conference. At its beginning, Potomac had 33 churches, 2,200 members and 14 ministers.

Let’s Get Back to the Altar

Editorial by Kevin Costello

When I was 5 years old, my mother decided to send me to live with my aunt and uncle in Fletcher, N.C., so that I could learn about Jesus and go to a Christian school instead of a public school in New York City.

Ceramics Class Changes Student’s Life

Story by Angela Peach

One class can change a student’s life. Ask Elaina Halye, a senior at Ohio Conference's Spring Valley Academy (SVA), and she will tell you that the ceramics class she took her sophomore year did just that.

Halye has fond memories of seeing the pottery that her aunt and uncle, Kathleen (Halye) Delgado (’02) and Myles Halye (’05), made in their ceramics classes around her grandma’s house. It intrigued her enough that when she had the opportunity to take that class, she jumped at the chance.

“It wasn’t easy at first,” Elaina admits, “but I caught on pretty quickly.”

Yet it was more than just learning a new skill that connected with her.

Grasonville Church Donates Blessing Bags to Patients

Grasonville member Sue Tyler (right) presents “Blessing Bags” to a staff member at the Bay Hematology and Oncology Center.

Story by Evan Knott

Members of Chesapeake Conference's Grasonville (Md.) church recently donated “blessing bags” to the Bay Hematology and Oncology Center in Centreville, Md., aiming to bring comfort to cancer patients undergoing treatment.

Church members assembled and delivered the bags, filled with blankets, slippers, puzzle books, chapstick, wipes and various other comfort items to those facing the challenges of cancer therapy.

Hispanic Women Gather at Retreat

Women from various countries display their cultural garments.

Story by Laura Romero

Setting aside routine, responsibilities and family, women from across the Allegheny West Conference (AWC) recently convened to enjoy personal time, renew their souls and focus on their Creator.

The women’s retreat, sponsored by the Multicultural Ministries Department, was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, where 236 ladies representing 15 countries from North, Central and South America met to be refreshed, challenged and healed. The program was in Spanish, with interpretation offered for Portuguese and English-speaking attendees.

St. Leonard Emmanuel Holds Second Annual Ministry Day

Trevor Donaldson (in white shirt and tie), lay pastor of the St. Leonard Emmanuel church, prays alongside leaders during Ministries’ Appreciation Day.

Story by LaTasha Hewitt

The St. Leonard (Md.) Emmanuel church recently held its second annual Ministries’ Appreciation Day, where they recognized the value and contributions of each ministry in the church.

Infinity Is Possible at Lake Nelson Adventist Academy

Freshmen from various high schools within the New Jersey Conference discuss spiritual matters during a small group.

Story by Ashley Boggess

What do you get when you take five schools, more than 100 students, a few dozen adults, and the support of home, school and conference and provide a high school spiritual retreat for them? United youth praising God across the New Jersey Conference (NJC).

16 Mountain View Conference Members Venture on India Mission Trip

Mountain View Conference members stand with the two children the group sponsored.

Story by Walter Cardenas

The Great Commission is to “Go”! Late last year, a group of 16 brave Mountain View Conference members ventured across the Atlantic Ocean to serve in India on a short-term mission trip to serve “the least of these.”