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  • Kalamazoo Church Donates 800 Bibles to Community Outreach Project

    Kalamazoo Church Donates 800 Bibles to Community Outreach Project

    Kalamazoo Seventh-day Adventist Church members packaged and prayed over the study Bibles.

    Debbie Michel
  • Indiana Pastor Turns to Film to Answer Questions About Adventist Beliefs

    Indiana Pastor Turns to Film to Answer Questions About Adventist Beliefs

    A Pentecost 2025 evangelism project has become a 10-part video series designed to reach people searching for answers about the Adventist Church.

    Debbie Michel
  • Leadership Retreat Expands Spiritual Focus for Academy Students

    Leadership Retreat Expands Spiritual Focus for Academy Students

    The Lake Union’s annual Academy Leadership Retreat expanded its focus on spiritual leadership this year, adding for the first time a Prayer Connectors group among the nearly 100 student leaders who gathered Oct. 1-4 at Camp Au Sable in Grayling, Michigan.

    Debbie Michel
  • Battle Creek Historic Adventist Village Gains Support for Major Renewal Projects 

    Battle Creek Historic Adventist Village Gains Support for Major Renewal Projects 

    General Conference President Erton Köhler is calling for renewed investment in Battle Creek’s Historic Adventist Village, with plans to add replicas of two institutions that helped shape the Seventh-day Adventist Church and restore existing historic properties for a new generation of visitors.

    Debbie Michel
  • A Bell Still Calls

    A Bell Still Calls

    Wisconsin Academy Rings in New Era with Historic Bell

    Debbie Michel
  • Sanctuary Comes to Life in Documentary

    Sanctuary Comes to Life in Documentary

    Indiana pastor and filmmaker Christian Smith creates documentary featuring Andrews University scholar Richard Davidson

    Debbie Michel
  • Gary Power Outages Spur Church-Led Relief Effort

    Gary Power Outages Spur Church-Led Relief Effort

    When a severe storm knocked out power across Gary, Indiana, on Aug. 11, Rijenna Murray began calling home.  Her 87-year-old grandmother was without electricity. So was her 89-year-old grandfather, her 91-year-old aunt, her father and other relatives. The Haughville Seventh-day Adventist Church member, who grew up in Gary and now lives in Indianapolis, knew her grandmother well enough to recognize the significance of…

    Debbie Michel
  • It began With a Prayer. It Ended With Open Doors

    It began With a Prayer. It Ended With Open Doors

    A Community Partnership is Sparked at Hinsdale Adventist Academy  

    Debbie Michel
  • Lake Union Delegates Re-Elect Leadership at Constituency Session

    Lake Union Delegates Re-Elect Leadership at Constituency Session

    On May 31, 2026, delegates to the 24th Lake Union Constituency Session re-elected the current slate of administrators to serve another five-year term.   More than 300 representatives from the Illinois, Indiana, Lake Region, Michigan and Wisconsin conferences, Andrews University and UChicago Medicine AdventHealth met at Pioneer Memorial Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan, to receive reports and determine…

    Debbie Michel & Kaara Harris
  • Lake Union Herald Earns Eight National Awards

    Lake Union Herald Earns Eight National Awards

    The Lake Union Herald earned eight national awards in the annual journalism contest sponsored by the Associated Church Press.  In the ACP’s “Best of the Church Press” competition, the Herald claimed the Best in Class honor as one of the top three magazines in North America for the second time.  The prize was presented at the faith-based journalist group’s convention in Toronto on May 15.  “Spanish…

    Debbie Michel
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