Regardless of how we view the city, political and economic power continue to shift from rural communities to the city.
Engaging Our Cities With the Gospel
A Lake Region Conference School in Inkster, Michigan was the grateful recipient of a generous donation.
On April 15, Michigan members will take to the streets of Detroit to knock on doors and distribute more than half a million copies of “The Great Controversy.”
Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, professor of biology at Andrews University, Fulbright scholar and National Geographic explorer, recently completed an extended research trip to the Amazon Basin of Brazil, where he studied alternative detection techniques for Amazonian manatees.
Amid medical and financial uncertainty, Scott Michael Bennett says, “God’s fingerprints were all over me.”
You know the story of Elisha and the widow (2 Kings 4). To refresh your memory, it’s about the widow who was experiencing grief, anxiety and fear, and approached the prophet with concerns about her family, their debt, their economic future and their survival.
Can we change? Will we make disciples in the city — live in urban space, serve, experience community, listen and learn together? Change together? Our answer is essential to the life and future of the church.
Sojourner Truth, the renowned ex-slave, abolitionist and women’s rights activist, died in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home in the early morning of November 26, 1883. Later that same day, the Battle Creek Moon announced: “The funeral will be held at the Tabernacle Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Eld. Uriah Smith officiating.” (2)
Some of the best holiday recipes have long family traditions.
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“I wish I had known the importance of educating my children about sexual abuse,” the young mom shared in tears. “I didn’t feel I could say anything as a child because I feared no one would believe me,” said a young adult male, due to the perpetrator being a church leader.
A few months after I was elected president of the Illinois Conference in 2001, my wife and I took some visitors to the Hancock Building in Chicago. In the observation deck high above the streets of Chicago we could see for miles in all directions. While our guests were watching the sailboats out on the blue waters of Lake Michigan, I was on the other side of the deck staring out at the vastness that is Chicagoland.
Reaching out to your neighbors may seem like an intimidating task. However, for one church, what started as an evangelistic series flier left at a door turned into a massive community project that now touches the lives of hundreds of people every Sabbath afternoon.
Since becoming a triathlete in the summer of 2021, I had one great goal. I wanted to be an Ironman.
