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Members Help Clean Up Flood Damage

During an event to help clean up Baltimore homes impacted by recent floods, Derrick Lea (left), director of Adventist Community Services (ACS) Disaster Response (DR) at the North American Division, and David Franklin (right), pastor of Allegheny East Conference’s Miracle City church in Baltimore, pray with Dionne, whose home was one of the hardest hit properties on Frederick Avenue.

Growth Spurt: How Demographic Shifts Are Impacting How We Minister

Members from Chesapeake Conference’s Atholton church—Sarah and Anna Singalla, Janet Keng Asare, Pastor Shawn Paris, Jasmin Elliott and Jair Parada—were photographed by Brian Patrick Tagalog in Columbia, Md.

Story by Edwin Manuel Garcia/ Images by Brian Tagalog, Kristi Rutt, Marving Alegria, Goodness Mcfiberesima and Tracey Brown

What Does the Baker Supreme Court Case Mean for Adventists?

Story by V. Michelle Bernard

This week the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided in favor of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado, who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious convictions. The case, watched closely by religious liberty experts, highlighted the tension between gay rights and same-sex interests and the rights of those with religious convictions who feel that providing certain services to same-sex individuals violates their right to practice their religion.

The couple filed a charge of discrimination, saying that Phillips violated the public accommodations law of Colorado that prohibits businesses from discriminatorily refusing services to protected classes, which include sexual orientation.

Help Clean up Flood Damage in Maryland

The Columbia Union Conference Adventist Community Services (ACS), NAD ACS and Allegheny East Conference's Miracle City church in Baltimore are partnering to help clean-up flood damage in Maryland. They need your help!

See the note from the NAD ACS for more information.

Elementary Schools to Use Encounter Bible Curriculum

Lanelle Cobbin speaks with teachers from G.E. Peters at an Encounter curriculum training.

Story by V. Michelle Bernard

This coming fall, all Columbia Union Conference elementary students will be studying Bible class with the new Adventist Encounter Bible Curriculum. High school classes across the union already use this program that promotes the Bible as the primary textbook, and encourages a deeper relationship with God through hands-on activities.