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Adventist Representation at Parliamentary Launch Event
On Monday, 27 March 2023, a capacity audience attended the 'All-Party Ethnicity, Transplantation and Transfusion Group' launch event, held at the parliamentary venue – Portcullis House, Westminster. This focused on how the lack of donor participation adversely affects people from African, Caribbe...
21 April 2023
Obituary - Pastor Ebenezer O Sackey
With a heavy heart, the South England Conference (SEC) wishes to share the news of the passing of Pastor Ebenezer Sackey. The SEC President, Emmanuel Osei, said, "Pastor Sackey served in the South England Conference for many years before retiring in 2010 and returning to Ghana in 2022." The sad e...
21 April 2023
Easter video message from the BUC President
Pastor Eglan Brooks, President of the British Union Conference (BUC) shares an Easter video message with the British Union audience.
6 April 2023
The Easter Break – An Explosion of Life after the Quiet
Easter tends to be a very quiet time here at the British Union Conference (BUC) office. A few of my colleagues have children at school, and they take the opportunity of the holidays to go away for a few days. Others visit family members or use some of their annual leave to work in their gardens o...
6 April 2023
Edmonton Church Facilitates Organ Donation Awareness Event
On the afternoon of Sabbath, 1 April, members of the Edmonton Adventist church and community visitors attended the Living Kidney Transplant Donor Community Awareness event. The event was a joint NHS initiative which is a project led by the Royal Free Hospital. Edith Samambwa – South England Confe...
5 April 2023
Prime Minister thanks Stanborough Park church member for his work as a Community Champion
Enoch Kanagaraj, Stanborough Park church member and Chief Executive of 'One Vision' charity, has been recognised for contributions to his church's local community by being awarded the title 'Community Champion' and invited to a reception at Number 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister, Ris...
30 March 2023
An interview with Sharon Platt-McDonald on her recent publication – Sacred Hours
Sacred Hours is a devotional book explicitly focusing on the Sabbath. Unlike other devotionals, the structure helps you appreciate the untapped benefits and blessings of Sabbath observance. The author, Sharon Platt-McDonald, invites you into a reflection and an evaluation as you use this materia...
30 March 2023
WACO 30th Anniversary: Continuities and Discontinuities
The onus is on each one of us to ensure that we are diligent students of the Bible The devastating loss of life, especially that of children, in the siege of the Branch Davidians at Waco on 19 April 1993 was tragic. As highlighted in the media coverage of the event and the subsequent trials and i...
24 March 2023
WACO 30th Anniversary: Recognising His Voice
"My Sheep Know My Voice" In 1990, I was serving as an intern pastor in the Manchester district of churches. One Friday, I received a call notifying me that a number of our young people were going to attend a Bible study that evening, and I decided to go along. I arrived at the home at 7 pm, where...
24 March 2023
WACO 30th Anniversary: Cliff – A Personal Reflection
I should have made Cliff a friend, but I couldn’t and I didn’t... When Clifford Sellors arrived at Newbold in 1985, I was two-thirds of the way through my pastoral training. What I immediately remember of Cliff is that he was a quiet, friendly, gentle young English person with a warm East Midland...
24 March 2023
Has anybody here seen my friend John?
Now, thirty years on, the memories of this tragic moment evoke difficult emotions in me that I thought I had processed a long time ago. In December 1987, I left the comfort of what was familiar to me and took a journey to West Indies College (WIC), now known as Northern Caribbean University, to b...
24 March 2023
Shetlanders, we'd love to make contact!
We’re looking to get in touch with people in Shetland. Have you ever lived in this beautiful, windswept archipelago somewhere between Scotland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands? Are you living there currently? Do you know anybody who lives there. We’d love you to make contact! Scottish Mission pasto...
24 March 2023
Education Day – 25 March 2023
From humble beginnings in 1858, the work of Seventh-day Adventist education has gone on from strength to strength. Though Adventists advocated primary education for children during the 1850s and 1860s, it was not until the early 1870s that the newly budding Seventh-day Adventist Church began to r...
23 March 2023
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Visits a Charity at Stanborough Primary School
It was a special day for One Vision charity and Stanborough Primary School on Monday, 13 March, as MP Mims Davies, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Minister for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression, visited with them. Other dignitaries were MP for Watford Dean Russell and Deputy Lieuten...
17 March 2023
Willesden Adventist Church Awarded Centre of Influence
Sabbath 4 March marked a milestone for the Willesden Seventh-day Adventist church as the British Union Conference (BUC) recognised and awarded them a 'Centre of Influence' status. With a membership of 670, over half of them are active members volunteering in the varied outreach services of the ch...
16 March 2023