When Nancy Crosby walked onto the Kayenta Seventh-day Adventist Church property on a sunny day in July, it was like being jolted awake from a long sleep. For the past 14 months, the Navajo Nation in Arizona, where Kayenta is located, had been under rigid COVID restrictions; no one had been allowe...
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted” (Luke 18:14, NIV). Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is reported to be one ...
A small congregation of Seventh-day Adventists in Panama recently launched a community-wide impact initiative across the financial district of Panama City, a metropolitan area still dealing with the challenges brought on by the pandemic. The activity, coined as “Be a Hero, Save Lives”, was organi...
One of the first things I did after finishing high school was to join a mission trip to the state of Tamilnadu in southern India. On this trip, my group and I got to visit orphanages, see the formation of new churches and meet local missionaries who had toiled for years trying to spread the Gosp...
The deadly Batlow bushfire raged through Mishtalem in January 2020. Mishtalem is the rural retreat my daughter and I had spent two years developing. The inferno destroyed all buildings and belongings, fences, irrigation, and half the apple orchard. We only saved our 30 animals. Caleb Lawman, a ch...
How a United Church pastor became an Adventist