News for
August 2008
- Adventist World Breaking Church News
- Adventist Review August 28, 2008
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- India: Adventist Pastor, Mother Burned to Death
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2062
Two church schools attacked.
US Navy Commissions First Adventist Woman Chaplain
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2059
- Adrienne Townsend was sworn in July 24.
Army Hospital Guesthouse Named After Desmond T. Doss
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2055
An Adventist is remembered at Walter Reed.
Historical Focus Can Shape Future Adventist Generations
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2054
White Estate, Adventist Review team to emphasize church history.
ADRA Catalog Aids Honduran Students
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2056
Donations fund global relief causes.
SAA Graduate Wins Olympic Gold
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2051
Mary Whipple graduated in 1998.
This Week’s Special Features Adventist Review
for August 28, 2008
Thinking Aloud About Laodicea
http://www.adventistreview.org/issue.php?issue=2008-1524&page=5
Can Laodicea change?
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- Are Medications Safe to Take?
http://www.adventistreview.org/issue.php?issue=2008-1524&page=25
Reconciling prescription medications with natural remedies
And It Was Good
http://www.adventistreview.org/issue.php?issue=2008-1523&page=8
The biblical mandate is clear: by protecting creation we honor the
Creator.
Adventist to direct U.S.
religious freedom panel
August
21, 2008
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Spring, Maryland, United States ... [ Adventist Review Staff/Adventist New
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James Standish brings political, legal and
religious perspective to his new post as executive director of the
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Standish
accepted the job last month following seven years serving as
director of Legislative Affairs for the Adventist world church. [ANN
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A veteran Seventh-day Adventist
religious freedom advocate announced last month that he has accepted the top
staff post of the United States Commission on International Religious
Freedom.
James D. Standish, Esq., director of Legislative Affairs at the Seventh-day
Adventist Church world headquarters for the past seven years, will now serve
as executive director of the United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom, an independent non-partisan federal agency advising the
White House and Congress.
"The Commission warmly welcomes James Standish," Commission chair Felice D.
Gaer said, calling him a "respected leader" both on Capitol Hill and among
the constituencies he has represented.
"Mr. Standish brings to the commission critical experience in both
grassroots advocacy and a publication history that speaks to his impressive,
non-partisan ability to approach issues of religious freedom from a
political, legal and theoretical perspective," Gaer said.
Standish called joining the Commission "an honor," particularly given the
upcoming tenth anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act. The
1998 law created the Commission, which monitors violations of right to
freedom of thought, conscious and religion or belief abroad and provides
independence policy recommendations to the President, Secretary of State and
Congress.
"The magnitude and severity of violations of the universal right to freedom
of thought, conscience, and religion worldwide cannot be understated,"
Standish said.
Standish is widely published, has discussed religious freedom issues on
nationally broadcast television and radio and has testified on religious
freedom matters before the U.S. House of Representatives,
most
recently in February, when he spoke in support of the Workplace
Religious Freedom Act.
Standish's new job "shows how the work of our department has had a very
positive influence in recent years," said John Graz, director of Public
Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Adventist world church. Graz said
Standish has "done an outstanding work in Washington, D.C.," and would
"continue to lift up religious freedom" at the Commission.
Standish received his undergraduate degree from Adventist-owned Newbold
College in England, an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D.
from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the
District of Columbia Bar and has been admitted to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit.
Standish joins nine Congressional and Presidential appointees currently
serving on the Commission.
Antigua prime minister salutes Adventist
Pathfinder movement
August
21, 2008
St. Johns,
Antigua ... [ James F. Daniel/ANN Staff ]
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Antigua Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
watches Adventist youth parade through the city of St. Johns August
16. Spencer was elected an honorary Pathfinder during a five-day
camporee of youth from throughout the Caribbean.
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Riding in a police vehicle equipped with
loudspeakers, Adventist youth call for a commitment to Christ and to
reject the use of drugs. More than 8,000 people marched through the
city of St. Johns on August 16.
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A Caribbean island nation's leader
is now a second-year honorary member of the Pathfinder club, a Seventh-day
Adventist youth service organization.
Antigua Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer received the ranking last Saturday
during a gathering of more than 3,000 Pathfinders from around the Caribbean.
Adventist young people met for a five-day camporee at Sir Vivian Richards
Stadium in St. Johns August 14 through 18.
Spencer donned his Pathfinder uniform and saluted an August 16 parade of
more than 8,000 Adventists marching through the city with a message of
Christianity and healthful living.
"It was one of the highest privileges ever accorded me," he said. Spencer
was declared an honorary Pathfinder last year.
Wearing their green and brown uniforms with yellow scarves, Pathfinders
paraded with marching bands, drill teams and public address systems blaring
from pickups. Adventist leaders urged young people to continue making a
positive difference in their homes, schools, churches and in their
community.
"By your actions you are reaching out," Spencer told the crowd before the
march. "You are extolling the virtues of the Almighty. You are an example.
Continue to live your lives in the image of the Almighty God."
Hiskia Missah, associate youth director for the Adventist world church, said
Spencer didn't just speak at the ceremony and leave but attended the entire
Saturday's church service, as well as ceremonies throughout the five-day
event.
"The prime minister was in his Pathfinder uniform the whole time," Missah
said. "He loved it."
More than 1,000 Pathfinders were invested during the Camporee. Giselle, a
Pathfinder from Trinidad, said was an opportunity for her to be part of
something big.
"I also had the opportunity to meet other Pathfinders and Master Guides from
other countries and saw how they did things differently," she said.
"Young people need to be well-trained and they need guidance," Caribbean
Pathfinder Director Clive Dottin told the Antigua Sun. "They need to
understand that they are loved and wanted and they will realize their
purpose and take up their mission in life and be good citizens here and in
the life to come."
The nation's Governor General, Louise Lake-Tact, and retired Governor
General, Sir James Carlyle, also attended the event.
Church Chat: The innovative dental dean
August 19,
2008
Loma Linda,
California, United States ... [ Ansel
Oliver/ANN ]
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Dr. Charles J. Goodacre, left, dean of the Loma Linda School of
Dentistry, receives the 2008 Gies Award recognizing outstanding innovation by a
dental educator from Dr. Patrick Naylor, associate dean, who nominated him for
the award. The school's learning resources are now used in most dental schools
across the nation.
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University joined such institutions as Harvard and New York University earlier
this year during an award ceremony for dental schools.
Since 2000, school
officials have worked to provide interactive teaching aids that are now used in
dental schools nationwide. The American Dental Education Association recognized
the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry's dean, Dr. Charles Goodacre, with
one of eight inaugural Gies awards; his for Outstanding Innovation as a dental
educator.
The Southern California Seventh-day Adventist institution has
now graduated more than 6,000 dentists since its launch in 1953. One hundred
percent of enrolled students are currently involved in community service as part
of the school's service learning.
The school operates mission dental
clinics worldwide and school officials hope more dentists will volunteer to
serve, not just to help people but to be financially successful and witness for
their faith. School leaders say they appreciate the support of the church and
recognition of the importance of dentistry to the church's mission and community
health.
Goodacre, 61, whose hobbies include woodcarving and model trains,
recently met with Adventist News Network for an interview in his 5th floor
office, which overlooks campus and the San Bernardino Valley. He shared his
vision for the school, how it's different from others and its role in the world
church's mission. Excerpts follow:
Adventist News
Network: Congratulations on the Gies award. Why did you win
it?
Dr. Charles Goodacre: Thank you. We've developed
electronic education aids at a higher level than other schools. ... We had
11,000 requests last year for copies of one of our DVD programs. It's used by
almost every school in North America. I think that's a tribute to our school of
dentistry.
ANN: About 70 percent of your students choose
a short term mission trip overseas as a community service project. How important
are these mission trips to the school's
objectives?
Goodacre: Well, one of the key reasons we're
here is to develop students who have more than just technical skills. When we
talk to alumni and ask them what the most life-changing events that happened to
them when they were students, they say it was their involvement in international
activities. And while we do some great things for the people where we go, great
things have happened to the students that go.
ANN: Why
do you require the class, "Spirituality of the church health
professional?"
Goodacre: We're trying to build the whole
continuum of spiritual involvement and you start off the first year reinforcing
the Adventist health principles. We've got a course called "Christian dentist in
the community" to emphasize the importance of their involvement. You hope they
sustain this involvement and activity when they leave. Of course, many of them
do. A true professional is more than just a technician.
ANN:
Your students do rotations through the university's medical and dental
clinic that treats HIV/AIDS patients. What kinds of precautions does a dentist
have to take when working with a patient who has
HIV/AIDS?
Goodacre: The special precautions are the
universal precautions we use with all patients. We don't worry about who we work
on.
ANN: Then why have a separate facility for those
patients?
Goodacre: They feel most comfortable when
they're in an environment where people are comfortable treating them. Once they
own up to having HIV/AIDS in their medical history a lot of people have
convenient reasons why they can't [treat them]. When you talk to those people as
our students are required to do and find out, What's it like to have HIV and
seek healthcare? How are you treated? What you find out is very interesting.
ANN: What are your future
goals?
Goodacre: The biggest plan right now is looking
into building a new school. We've exhausted our existing facilities in that we
have no growth potential. We're going through a lean process, which means trying
to refine our processes to make them as efficient as possible. You shouldn't
plan for space using existing systems if some of those systems are a little
flawed. We have some flawed systems like any
organization.
ANN: What does this school do
well?
Goodacre: We provide a great education for these
students. They get an incredible clinical experience here in a spiritual
environment. And that's where you can openly incorporate spiritual values into
your curriculum. There's Loma Linda and Creighton University in Nebraska and
those are the only two dental schools that do that. I taught for 23 years at
Indiana University where you didn't do those things in class -- it was
considered inappropriate. Here it's not.
ANN: What are
some of the challenges facing the school right now?
Goodacre:
Well it's resources, no question. People and resources are what
challenge most entities.
ANN: What would you do with
more people and resources?
Goodacre: Well you could
certainly do a lot more of the positive things in the community and the outreach
than what we can do now. No question. We have between 100,000 and 120,000
patient visits per year in the dental school. Many of those are coming here
because we provide care at a lower cost. They wouldn't receive care otherwise.
Last year, it was about 9,000 people we provided care for outside of the school
for free -- about 4,000 here locally and 5,000 internationally.
ANN: What are some of the school's
weaknesses?
Goodacre: We have incredible strengths in
the research area, but it's in certain areas. We don't have as broad and
extensive research program as some others. The director of our center for
research, Dr. Yiming Li, he's one of six dentists on the FDA panel that approve
new products for dentistry. He's a world leader in bio-compatibility and
toxicology. Dr. Torabinejad is a world leader in endodontics. And it's always a
challenge to find faculty who will work for what we can pay them. It's
relatively modest compared to private practice. And to find Adventists who are
qualified. It takes more than 500 people counting part-time instructors to run
this school.
ANN: Where would you say the dental school
fits into the world church's mission?
Goodacre: Well,
dental care has allowed the Adventist Church to offer health care services in
parts of the world where there is no other activity. I think we have a presence
in some places because of dentistry. We have no idea what that leads to in the
future in countries where [the church] can't overtly have activities. Having
dentistry has been financially beneficial to a lot of areas of the world. The
school operates 76 mission dental clinics. We manage those for the church. We
have a lot of faculty who travel to try to keep these clinics open and
running.
ANN: What's more important: brushing or
flossing?
Goodacre: Both are important, but brushing --
if a person can only do one of the two -- is preferred.
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- My Favorite
Programs on Hope TV
- By Barrington Brennen, Web Servant
Hope TV is inspirational and spiritually
enlightening. What I like about Hope TV is that you get a real feel of the
international church. Remember Hope TV available on Cable Bahamas
Channel 653. Click
HERE to download the program schedule for September 2008. Here
some of my favorite programs this week.
- 34 Degrees South
Coming from South Africa
- Really Living, hosted
by Pastor Don Schneider
- Purely Music
- Cliff
Philosophical and spiritual
monologue by Clifford Goldstein.
- University School
Study of the Adult Sabbath
School Lesson on Sabbath Mornings
- My Story My Song
- Adventist Missions
Mission stories from about
the world
- Keeping the Faith
Interactive dialogue
- Lifestyle Magazine
Pastor Leonard Johnson Speaks at Northern
Caribbean University 2008 Graduation
 Under
the theme “Defining our purpose, creating a difference” Dr. Leonard A
Johnson president of the Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, spoke
at the Baccalaureate service at Northern Caribbean University Sabbath,
August 9, 2008. In 1981 he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology
with a minor in History from Northern Caribbean University. In 1990 Pastor
Johnson obtained a Master of Arts degree of Religion from Andrews University
Extension program and a Master of Divinity equivalent on the Andrews
University Campus. Four years later Pastor Johnson successfully completed
the Doctor of Ministry program at the Reformed Theological Seminary.
Emotions soared in the highly anticipated two thousand and eight graduation
ceremony at Northern Caribbean University. This was a weekend of unlimited
miracles. An army of more than a thousand excited, eager, ecstatic graduates
dressed in their respective regalia stood and turned their tassels to the
left in a symbolic statement. The theme for the weekend was, “Defining our
purpose... creating a difference.” It all started Friday, August 8, with
the Consecration service. Pastor Peter Kerr, the president of the Turks and
Caicos Island Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, was the Keynote speaker.
On Sabbath August 9 at the Baccalaureate service, Pastor Leonard Johnson,
president of The Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, gave the
graduates a profound understanding of the prayer of Jabez. In the afternoon,
the graduates hosted the service. Melodious singing, reflections and awesome
testimonies of how God granted many students the opportunity to complete
their studies complemented the blessings of the Sabbath evening. Sunday
August 10, ushered in the final stage of the graduation, the Commencement
ceremony. Due to the large number of graduates, two commencement ceremonies
were held. The first ceremony got underway at eight-thirty in the morning
and the last at four o’clock in the afternoon. Ambassador Dr. Richard
Bernal, Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank,
was the first Commencement speaker. The Honorable Margarett Best, Minister
of Health Promotion for the Province of Ontario in Canada, spoke at the
service.
Congratulations are
extended to the six Bahamian graduates that successfully completed their
studies. Two Religion majors: Ashton McFall and Terry Tanis,
one Education major: Sonovia Munnings and one Biology Major:
Shakara Hepburn. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
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Shakara Hepburn |
Terry
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Hillview Adventist Men
and Boys Trade Exchange
[August 21, 2008] Hillveiw Adventist Men
teaching boys a skill to last a life time. For nine weeks the
Adventist Men of Hillview Seventh-day Adventist Church, Tonique
Williams-Darling Highway, Nassau, conducted training where their sons
acquired various skills that will make them better men, husbands, and
fathers, when they get older. Congratulations are extended to 24
men and boys who participated in the Trade Exchange program. The sessions
included training in carpentry, masonry, air-conditioning, auto mechanics
and welding and auto body repair. The closing ceremony was held
at the church on Sunday, August, 2008. See photos below of the
closing ceremony.
- World Religious
News
- Adventist Review, October 17, 2008
California Court Declares Homeschooling
Legal
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2026
New ruling reverses February decision.
Court: University of California Can Reject Christian School Classes
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2026#2
UC would not certify courses that taught creationism.
Chicago Archdiocese Agrees to $12.7 Million Settlement
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2026#3
The settlement is for 16 abuse survivors.
Episcopal Church to Apologize for Slavery
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2026#4
A “Day for Repentance” set for Oct. 3, 4.
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Breaking Church News
- August 15, 2008
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Kellon Hill would have started
college at Oakwood University,
[Photo: Bermuda Conference]
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- Bermuda Teen Fatally Stabbed
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2025
Kellon Hill was to attend Oakwood University
AR Columnist Fredrick Russell Becomes Allegheny West President
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2024
Jamaica: As Murder Rate Soars, Adventists Conduct Day of Prayer
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2023
More than 650 churches were to participate in the island-wide event.
Church Needs New Mentality to Combat AIDS, GC Official Says
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2021
Morality arguments are not enough.
In Africa, Asia, Religious Freedom Is Celebrated
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2022
Ceremonies held in Angola, Mongolia
More Than Five
Hundred Pastors and Spouses Attending Retreat
 Under the
theme “Refreshed, Revived, Renewed,” about 550 Adventist pastors and spouses
and administrative leaders from The Bahamas, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos, and
the Cayman Islands, are in Montego Bay, Jamaica, at Holiday Inn Hotel,
attending a Ministerial Retreat between August 11 to 14, 2008. It is a time
truly for refreshing and renewing of the energies and relationships. Pastor
Israel Leito, president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day
Adventists, will provide the opening presentation. In the photo on
the left is Pastor Jeremiah and Mrs. Joan Duncombe standing in front of
the Union's gallery at the retreat.
On Monday night, August 11, 2008, Pastor Israel
Laito opened the West Indies Union Conference Ministerial Retreat with a
powerful message on the importance ministers taking care of their own
spiritual needs. LISTEN
with Free Real Media www.real.com
On Tuesday morning the retreat continued with
an inspirational devotion when Pastor Emil Peeler gave a dynamic
presentation on "Contentment."
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Adventist Review for
August 10, 2008
This Week’s Special Features
Our “Olympic” Challenge
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2008
“What does winning really mean?
World Religious News From
Religion News Service
Unitarian Church Shooting Kills 2
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2007
The attack is the first of its kind on a Unitarian church.
Appeals Court Blocks Internet Porn Law
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2007#2
Judges said the law violated freedom of speech.
Catholics Tally Cost of Katrina Damage
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2007#3
Initial estimates total $288 million.
Methodists Back Bush Library at SMU
http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2007#4
The project cost is estimated at $500 million.
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 Young
Pastor Desmond Sturrup Electrifies Freeport Church. News from
North Bahamas Mission website Under the
caption "Obsessed with Jesus", the
Youth Gospel Extravaganza with Pastor Desmond Sturrup lifted off at the
Freeport Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday, August 2, 2008. Meetings
continue through to August 9 at 7:30 nightly and are “Off the Chain
See More Photos
First Layperson to Be Elected Secretary of
The Bahamas Conference
Kenny V. A. Deveaux
was elected as the new Executive Secretary of The Bahamas Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists during a special meeting of the Executive Committee
on Wednesday, August 6, 2008. He was chosen to replace Pastor Eric Clarke
who was recently elected as the president of the Cayman Islands Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists. Kenney Deveaux is the first lay person to be
elected to the post of executive secretary in The Bahamas Conference. He
has served the Conference for over 28 years first as the Business Manager of
Bahamas Academy, the oldest and largest Academy in the West Indies Union;
then the Adventist Book Center Manager, and currently Stewardship Director
of The Bahamas Conference.
An
Adventist his entire life, he has shown consistent dedication and commitment
as a leader in the organization. He is the head elder of the Grant's Town
Seventh-day Adventist Church, the second oldest and the largest Adventist
Church in The Bahamas with more than 2100 members. He is married to
Darlene who is employed at the Central Bank of The Bahamas. They have been
happily married for 24 years and have two children: Kenny, a student at
Andrews University Michigan; and Danielle, a student at Bahamas Academy. We
extend congratulations to Elder Deveaux in his newly elected post and trust
that the Lord will guide and direct him always.
August Monday Sports
Day 2008
Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists young people
and adults on the island of New Providence, The Bahamas, flocked to the
Queen Elizabeth Sports Track and Field Centre, for the annual fun day.
It was really exciting to see the very young and the old participate in the
various activities. See photos below. Click on photos to
enlarge.
New Organ Dedicated at Philadelphia
Church
 A new
Rogers organ was dedicated at the Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church,
Elizabeth Estates, Nassau, on Sunday, August 3, 2008. Lynden Williams,
the pastor, was excited for this beautiful instrument to add to the worship
service. Annette Dorsette, music coordinator for the church, was
excited having this wonderful instrument to enrich music ministry in the
church. Raymond Antonio, an outstanding organist, and a member of the
Bethany Church, provided sweet music on the new organ during the dedication
service.
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