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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
ADRA-UK Launches Healthy Fundraising Initiative.
#walkforadra On the 1 June ADRA-UK launches it’s three month new and healthy fundraising initiative, #walkforadra. The aim is to raise at least £50,000 by walking £50,000 miles to help some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. As we anticipate the UK fully emerging from lockdown on th...
28 May 2021
Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg
Anmarie Anderson from Gloucester Seventh-day Adventist church has always loved gardening from a young age. Her father being a farmer enabled her to grow up around plants and fresh food and develop a deep insight into the fine art of horticulture. Speaking of her passion for gardening Anmarie said...
26 May 2021
Dudley House School Art Exhibition
As the country begins to open up after months of lockdown, Dudley House School embarked on a collaborative school venture on 25 May – the staging of their own art gallery experience. For one day only, the school entrance, the large hall and one of the classrooms were completely transformed and dr...
26 May 2021
The Inaugural Virtual Members' Core of Adventism
In 2004, Pastor Eglan Brooks was impressed with a vision. It was to keep "the significant teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the forefront of our ministers', elders' and lay members' minds." This is how the annual British Union Conference (BUC) programme Core of Adventism came into ...
14 May 2021
The Doors of the Church were Open
On Sabbath 1 May 2021, Coventry Central church and the viewers from Poland witnessed the baptism of Lukasz Brzozka (affectionately called Brother Lucas.) His journey started on a cold Thursday afternoon in December 2019 when he saw the church door open on an unusual day. (The church then was usua...
14 May 2021
India COVID-19 Second Wave Emergency Appeal
COVID-19 is currently hitting India extremely hard. As of the 29 April there reported 378,25 infections and 3,645 deaths in the last 24 hours. The caseload has surged to 18.3 million cases. The aggressive second wave of the pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals unable to arranged adequate oxygen sup...
29 April 2021
From Beauty to Ashes - ADRA-UK Responds to St Vincent Disaster
The verdant green of the rich landscape of the La Soufriere volcano was reminiscent of the green and pleasant land of a fairy tale. The devastation of its eruption on 9 April transformed the green dew-kissed dense rainforest to a grey volcanic apocalyptic wilderness. People fled their homes, left...
29 April 2021