Indiana

A Marriage Maintenance Seminar with Walter and Jackie Wright will be held Nov. 17–18 at the Cicero Church. This special seminar is being presented by the Indiana Family Ministries department at no charge. Elder Wright's first presentation will begin Fri. evening at 7:00 p.m., and he will speak for the 11:00 a.m. Sabbath morning worship hour. This will be followed by a fellowship dinner and a final afternoon presentation at 2:30 p.m. For additional information or to register, call Collene Kelly at 317-984-4376.

Tri-Town Christmas Program: Enjoy the wonderful music of the Christmas season with an adult mass choir, the full choir from Indiana Academy, the Keynotes, the bell choir, and the concert band under the direction of Andrew Lay, on Fri., Dec. 1, 7:00 p.m. This annual community sacred musical program will be held at the Cicero Adventist Church, 2445 State Road 19 North, Cicero.

Lake Union

Offerings:

Nov 4 Local Church Budget

Nov 11 Annual Sacrifice

Nov 18 Local Church Budget

Nov 25 Local Conference Advance

Special Days:

Nov 4–25 Native Heritage Month

Nov 4 Stewardship Sabbath

Nov 5–11 Week of Prayer

Nov 18 Human Relations Sabbath

Nov 25 Welcome Home Sabbath

North American Division

Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia (MTSA) has been awarded a $500,000 grant by The Memorial Foundation for capital support to develop a new Simulation Skills Lab. The new Simulation Skills Lab is part of the MTSA master development plan included in the Building the Future $3.0 million campaign. The second largest school of anesthesia in the U.S., MTSA is a place for Adventist nurses to come with assurance of a quality Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist education while not facing Sabbath conflicts for classes, testing, and boards. The new Simulation Skills Lab and new "SimBaby" will significantly aid to better provide an increased level of hands-on learning for the anesthesia students. To learn more about MTSA’s Building the Future campaign, call the Advancement office at 615-868-6503.

The New Christian Online Yellow Pages (COYP) asks businesses, non-profit organizations, professionals, and students only one question: “Do you strive to display the same Christian values whether you’re at home, work, or school? Yes? Then your listing on the Christian Online Yellow Pages is absolutely FREE of charge.In August, Seventh-day Adventist entrepreneurs Tim Allston (formerly of Shiloh Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chicago) and Michael Sales (formerly of the Shiloh Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cincinnati) launched the Christian Online Yellow Pages at www.ChristianOnlineYellowPages.com. “Too many of us share common Christian values such as fairness, honesty, selflessness, and professional integrity, and display them everyday in our workplaces and in our homes,” explained COYP co-founder Mike Sales, a retired Procter & Gamble market researcher. “Unfortunately, most of us have been misled to believe we should not share or discuss such common Christian values out loud, and especially not in our work environments. “Our Christian Online Yellow Pages seeks to break that unnatural, unrealistic separation of our trying to live in two independent worlds—one’s personal world with Christian values, and one’s professional or business world where they try to make hush-hush those same values.” One unique feature of this “Chamber of Commerce in cyberspace,” as co-founder Tim Allston dubs the COYP, is its recruitment of high school, college, and graduate students into listing. “Our Christian Online Yellow Pages sees education, training, and professional development as foundational to business and professional growth,” explained Allston, a former Oakwood College administrator.“As tuition-paying parents and as consultants to higher education, Mike and I are very passionate about educating and assisting both students and young professionals in making a successful transition from the classroom to the workplace, both strategically and spiritually.”Beginning in January 2007, COYP will begin bi-weekly teleseminars (telephone seminars addressing varied career-building and academic-skills topics, featuring noted subject experts) entitled “Theo-preneurship 101™.” For more information, go to www.ChristianOnlineYellowPages.com.