Illustration by Brooklyne Nickell
Thanksgiving and Christmas are awesome times to celebrate with family and friends! Many churches like to decorate, distribute food baskets and remember Jesus’ birth.
You can also help families all over the world by sponsoring gifts from ADRA’s 2025 Gift Catalog at giftcatalog.adra.org!
Check out the scene below, and see if you can find these hidden items inspired by gifts in the catalog: Blanket, Baby Chick, Goat, Honeybee, Seed packets, Water Bucket
The Association of Adventist Women (AAW) recently awarded Griselda Jobe the 2025 Junia Award for pioneering work in rural pastoral ministry. She is the lead pastor of Potomac Conference’s Martinsville and Piney Forest churches in Virginia.
“Griselda Jobe received the Junia Award for pioneering work as one of a few ordained female lead pastors in a rural multi-church district in the North American Division,” states Nerida Bates, president of AAW.
Columbia Union Conference’s Office of Multilingual Ministries recently helped facilitate the distribution of 152,849 books to conferences in the Columbia Union.
The 15,520 small Bibles, 86,400 Steps to Christ in Spanish, 50,600 Steps to Christ in English and 329 family Bibles books were distributed to pastors, who then shared them with church and community members.
Story by Ricardo Bacchus
Join us November 5 at noon for Columbia Union’s monthly prayer meeting.
Leaders and members from the Allegheny East Conference will guide us in prayer and share how God is working through the Pentecost 2025 movement to bring blessings to their territory. Together, we will engage in a time of prayer and praise, focusing specifically on God's grateful and generous heart and how we can be more like Him.
Don’t forget to bring your prayer requests and invite a friend!
Story by Debra Anderson
The Damascus Grace Fellowship (DGF) church recently hosted its first-ever “Touch A Truck” event—a vibrant, family-focused outreach that brought ministry into motion and the community into fellowship. Designed to strengthen ties beyond the church walls, the event reflected the heart of Christ through joyful service, creative planning and open-armed hospitality.
Historia de V. Michelle Bernard/Traducción por Domitila Rosette
Este otoño, voluntarios de toda la Columbia Union y de otras partes, atendieron una clínica médica, oftalmológica y dental gratuita en la iglesia Miracle City de la Allegheny East Conference en Baltimore.
Los servicios ofrecidos incluyeron limpiezas dentales, extracciones y empastes; exámenes de la vista y anteojos gratuitos; exámenes médi- cos básicos; y orientación y recursos sobre salud mental y estilo de vida.
La comunidad también fue invitada a un día de bienestar en la iglesia.
Historia de V. Michelle Bernard/Traducción por Domitila Rosette
Las iglesias y escuelas de la Columbia Union Conference han organizado 800 reuniones evangelísticas en lo que va del 2025, incluyendo Revelación Hoy: Esperanza para la Humanidad.
Las reuniones de Esperanza para la Humanidad, celebradas en Towson, Maryland, y organizadas por las conferencias de Chesapeake y Allegheny East, con el apoyo de la Columbia Union Conference, North American Division e It is Written, marcaron la culminación de meses de planificación, estudios bíblicos y oración por los residentes del área de Baltimore.
Historia de V. Michelle Bernard/Traducción por Domitila Rosette
En el artículo principal de esta edición, “Regresando a Casa”, miembros de iglesia de toda la Columbia Union Conference explican qué los atrajo a la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. También comparten consejos sobre cómo hacer que una iglesia sea más acogedora, para que otros también la conviertan en su hogar espiritual.
Enfócate en el Reino
· Enfócate en el reino, no en la iglesia.
· Cualquiera puede discipular a otros; solo necesitas estar dispuesto a dedicar tiempo y energía a una relación, y dejar que el Espíritu Santo se encargue del resto.
· Permite que la persona a la que estás discipulando lidere las conversaciones.
Story by LaTasha Hewitt
Story by Janel Ware
At the 62nd General Conference (GC) Session in St. Louis, the Shenandoah Valley Academy (SVA) Music Department had the opportunity to shine. SVA Music performed in concerts on the convention center’s main and theater stages, held pop-up concerts throughout the week, entertained at the SVA booth in the exhibition hall and even showcased their talent on the Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
Director Daniel Biaggi and Associate Director Kelly Wiedemann Jaén led the inspiring tour, accompanied by incoming SVA Music Director Andrés Mendoza, along with a group of alumni musicians.