The education leaders in the Atlantic Union Conference and the North American Division are concerned about declining enrollment in Seventh-day Adventist schools. Despite numerous brainstorming and marketing summits, enrollment continues to plummet. Last January, the Atlantic Union Conference Office of Education was selected by the Center for Research in K-12 Education at La Sierra University … Read more
Imagine you are a lifeguard at a populated beach, encircled by a beautiful boardwalk that ventures deep into the water with a great spot for people to congregate and look at the ocean. Suddenly, you notice that someone in the water is in trouble. You dive in with your rescue equipment and bring him to … Read more
Seventy-one years ago a small band of believers had a vision of providing Christian education to the young people in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bermuda. After many challenges, a school was started in the Southampton church basement with 13 students and one teacher. There are now more than 300 students and 30 teachers living … Read more
Perhaps you know one, two, or, unfortunately, countless numbers of young adults who formerly sat on the pews in your church. Perhaps you were his Pathfinder leader and invested lots of time with him as he was growing up. Maybe you were her Sabbath School teacher and counseled her several times. Or, perhaps, you were … Read more
Within the boundaries of the Southern New England Conference four one-teacher schools are thriving. These schools are staffed by teachers who are on the front line of Christian education every day, basically by themselves. It’s hard to imagine being the only adult at school day by day, having no other adults to talk with about … Read more
What I am about to ask is radical and hard, perhaps one of the more difficult things you will do in your life. For the last year and a half, this column has been dedicated to Compassion, a movement of children, youth, young adults, and adults who have become the heart, eyes, hands, and feet … Read more
This is a story about a guy who had never read a book in his whole life, and the couple who sent him a 384-page volume about Bible prophecy. The book, of course, is The Great Controversy. Ellen White’s book is part of a worldwide outreach movement that has gathered so much momentum in the … Read more
Inquiry (noun): : an official effort to collect and examine information : the act of asking questions in order to gather or collect information (www.merriam-webster.com) “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord”—Isaiah 1:18. “He [Jesus] said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou?”—Luke 10:26. Would … Read more
Eight students graduated from the Northeast Evangelism Training School’s (NETS) fall 2013 program. The event was held on December 8 at the Chan Shun Dining Commons on the campus of Atlantic Union College. The ceremony, attended by about 120 people, signaled the completion of the second NETS four-month program and the first one to be … Read more
It has been a year since Superstorm Sandy hit the New York City coastline packed with high waves and strong winds that resulted in displacement, destruction, and death. Disasters are followed by a surge in giving, volunteering, and charity. Everyone wants to help as long as the pictures remain on our television screens. It happened … Read more
