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NEC APPROVES DRAFT CONSTITUTION FOR SESSION
The North England Conference Executive Committee has approved a version of the proposed new NEC Constitution to present at the NEC Session, which will run from Wednesday 8 to Friday 10 September. More than two years in the making, the latest version is draft 37, which gives an idea of the amount ...
11 August 2021
‘Surviving Lockdown’ Badges Received at Newbold Church Investiture
Newbold Church Pathfinders and Adventurers together with their Counsellors joyfully received the ‘surviving lockdown’ badges during their investiture held on Sabbath 10 July. This is a special badge given on top of other badges, in honour and recognition of the hard work put in during lockdown wh...
5 August 2021
Six Kids and a New Enterprise
One parents ability to combine parenthood and forge into a new business venture with Caribbean products.
2 August 2021
British Union Conference Weekly e-Club Ends after Fifteen Months
On 23 March 2020 the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced that England would begin a period of lockdown, during which people were not to leave their houses for anything except for essential trips. Offices, schools, churches, and other establishments all closed their doors to await the passing...
22 July 2021
HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester Visits Stanborough Park Church
Wednesday 23 June 2021, is a date that will be long remembered by the Watford community, as the day a member of the royal family – HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester, came to visit. The reason? To acknowledge the outstanding work and significant impact of One Vision. Founded in August 2018 and...
21 July 2021
New Phone and Tablet App for the NEC
The North England Conference (NEC) President launched its new app for Android devices last month. Pastor Richard Jackson shares the journey of its development: In the last 30 years the speed at which technology has advanced has been rapid! As well as this in the last 18 months we have all been ca...
8 July 2021
Anchored in Christ and Stronger Together
Plymouth's Anchored in Christ investiture started with a bang as the Pathfinders got things under way with their newly acquired drums and cymbals. The Pathfinders had been busy practising over the last month to surprise the parents with a well-rehearsed routine. They were thrilled to show off the...
8 July 2021
Baptism Joy at Central London Church
"Thank you to all of you, for opening the doors of the house of God, because God is love and God is forgiveness..."
5 July 2021
Mary Finds a Home at Hackney Church
“I have found a church family where I have been made welcome...”
2 July 2021
SEC Camp Meeting 2021 Report
The South England Conference (SEC) held its second virtual Camp Meeting from 31 May to 5 June 2021. The Conference built upon the experience and success of last year's inaugural virtual event which was organised three months into the COVID-19 pandemic and first UK lockdown. The week-long event of...
24 June 2021
Church Member Wins Heros Award
Tony Hawkins has always been a member of the Nottingham Deaf Society (NDS) and the deaf community which he calls his second home. What we now know is the NDS on Forest Road in Nottingham originally had its origins as the Nottingham Deaf School in 1950. Tony has been a long-standing volunteer over...
16 June 2021
BUC Session Postponed
On Thursday 10 June 2021 the British Union Conference (BUC) Executive Committee voted to postpone the BUC Session from its previously scheduled dates of Thursday 8 and Friday 9 July 2021. This is primarily because the hotel we had been planning to use was requisitioned for government use at the t...
11 June 2021
Covid-19 Testing Programme Launches at the Stanborough Park Seventh-day Adventist Centre
On 6 April, British Union Conference (BUC) Health Ministries Director, Sharon Platt-McDonald, was contacted by the Department of Health and Social Care, (DHSC) seeking to engage the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) churches in a pilot initiative to become Self-Test Collection Sites. With twice weekly ...
10 June 2021
Death of Valerie Freeman
We were saddened to learn of the death of Valerie Freeman who passed away on Saturday, 29 May 2021. Valerie was born on 23 September 1933 in Lincoln in the East Midlands of England. She entered employment within the British Union Conference (BUC) in 1952 as a Bible Instructor in the North England...
9 June 2021