At Columbia Union Conference's recent Transformational Evangelism, Elizabeth Talbot, Speaker/Director for the Jesus 101 Biblical Institute, shared Changing the Culture of Your Church by Helping it Understand the Gospel.
Who We Are, How We Serve
The Columbia Union Conference coordinates the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s work in the Mid-Atlantic United States, where 150,000 members worship in 860 congregations. We provide administrative support to eight conferences; two healthcare networks; 81 early childhood, elementary and secondary schools; a liberal arts university; a health sciences college; a 49 community services centers; 8 camps; 5 book and health food stores and a radio station.
We Believe
God is love, power, and splendor—and God is a mystery. His ways are far beyond us, but He still reaches out to us. God is infinite yet intimate, three yet one,
all-knowing yet all-forgiving.
"It is God who works, who transforms the heart. ...We just want to not make it difficult and help them make their next step," shared Tim Madding, lead pastor of Potomac Conference's Beltsville's Ammendale and Tech Road campuses in Maryland.
Watch Madding's presentation at Columbia Union Conference's Transformational Evangelism event below.
Pastor Cesar Gonzalez, a pastor in the Chesapeake Conference, recently shared his thoughts on ethical evangelism. This article doesn't necessarily represent the views of the Visitor staff.
Why don’t we talk about the ethics of how we do evangelism?
I live in the poorest county in the state of Maryland. The neediest children in the entire state live just a few blocks from my home, where I now sit comfortably writing these lines. I think of them often as I care for my own children who have warm, safe beds, plenty of clothes and abundant food.
"Spiritual growth and maturity are always gauged by application, by what people DO, not what they KNOW," said Mike Speegle, senior pastor at Chesapeake Conference's New Hope church in Fulton at Columbia Union Conference's recent Transformational Evangelism event.
