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Dupont Park Member Receives National Humanism Medal

Story by LaTasha Hewitt

Gina Brown, an Allegheny East Conference Dupont Park church member, located in Washington, D.C., was recently awarded the 2023 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Brown received the award “in recognition of her transformational global leadership, innovative educational practices, and embodiment of nursing,” according to the foundation’s website.

Brown, who has served as dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences at Howard University since 2015, received the award alongside four other notable names in health care at the Arnold P. Gold Foundation annual gala.

ARM Launches Two New Products Exclusively for Educators

Image by memyselfaneye from Pixabay

Adventist Risk Management, Inc. (ARM), has launched two new products exclusively for educators--a School Safety Kit e-book and a teacher-based Risk Training Center (RTC) course. Both products were debuted to educators at last month's North American Division Educator's Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.

Readied, Reunited, and Recharged

Rick Bianco, Ohio Conference superintendent of schools, greets Adelina Simpson and Cinthya Hernandez, Clifton Christian Academy educators.

Story by V. Michelle Bernard

Prior to the start of the 2023–24 academic school year, some 500 teachers and staff from the Columbia Union Conference joined 5,000 other educators at the North American Division (NAD) Educators’ Convention, themed “Something Better,” in Phoenix.

Video: Creating Community In the Adventist Classroom

Creating Community In the Adventist Classroom

At the 2023 North American Division's Educators' Convention, Potomac Conference's Richard Castillo asked Kelly Wiedemann from Shenandoah Valley Academy how she uniquely builds community in her classroom. Here's what she said.

Debra Brill, Former North American Division Vice President for Ministries, Passes to Her Rest

Story by Kimberly Luste Maran/NAD / Photo by Dan Weber

Debra Clements Brill, former vice president for ministries for the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, passed to her rest on August 27, 2023, at her home in Jamaica, Virginia, after an extended illness. She was 71.

Brill retired on October 1, 2019, after serving the division as a vice president for 21 years. “It’s been my great joy to work with gifted leaders who love God and His church!” said Brill upon her retirement.

Fill Your Sash With New Honors

The drones honor (and all the other new honors) are available through AdventSource.

In the last 10 years, 104 new honors have been approved for use in Pathfinders, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s co-ed scouting group.

This year, the North American Division (NAD) approved the following new honors, available through AdventSource:

The Sky Is Not the Limit for One Senior

The Sky Is Not the Limit for One Senior, Blue Mountain Academy, Abner Lozano, Eric Engen, Training Mission Aviation

Story by Esther Hernandez

“I’ve always aspired to become a pilot,” says Abner Lozano.

As a sophomore, Lozano learned his dream could come true at Blue Mountain Academy (BMA) through the aviation program offered on campus by Training Mission Aviation. He enrolled in ground school his junior year and began flying soon after that.