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Camp Hill Food Bank Christmas Deliveries
2020 has not been an easy year for anyone and there have been a lot of changes. Churches have closed and services have moved online. Thus, many churches have used their buildings to host food banks and soup kitchens to feed those who are in need. Camp Hill Seventh-day Adventist church is one of t...
7 January 2021
Death of Pastor Patrick Boyle
It is with deep sadness that we report the death of Pastor Patrick Boyle. He died on 29 December 2020. He and his wife Rosemary joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Dublin in 1956. In 1960 he went to Newbold College to train for the ministry. In 1964 he returned to Ireland and began his min...
5 January 2021
ADRA-UK: A Year in Review
Despite COVID, traditional giving to ADRA-UK is consistent and we want to thank all of you who have so wonderfully and faithfully supported our work this year
18 December 2020
Seasonal Year End Messages From the Presidents
Pastor Ian Sweeney - President British Union Conference On behalf of the British Union Conference, I would like to extend season's greetings to all our church family. Quite obviously 2020 has been a most remarkable year which has been defined by Covid-19 and all the devastation that has been left...
17 December 2020
24 Members Trained and Equipped for Evangelism in Wales
This year started with great pomp and ceremony as January 1 rang out. But within two months that joy and euphoria was short-lived as the United Kingdom and the whole world experienced a darkness that came over it in the form of Covid-19. Nobody expected it to last as long as it has, nobody experi...
17 December 2020
Endurance Youth Week of Prayer
I remember very clearly that day in class when Professor Danial Duda said, "Please remember that ministry it not a 100m sprint but a marathon." Well for somebody that never ran a marathon and only had to run 100m in school, what I got from that lesson is that endurance will be key on this journey...
15 December 2020
Adventist Response to New Covid-19 Vaccine
On Wednesday 2 December, the first UK-approved Covid-19 vaccine was formally licensed and will be rolled out from next week starting with priority groups such as NHS workers. The Pfizer vaccine is given in two doses, with three weeks in between. Results from the phase three trial indicate that th...
3 December 2020
Tithes Across BUC Reach 91% of 2019 Return
After 10 months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020 the latest monthly tithe report shows that we have now reached 91% (£17.7 million) of our 2019 tithe returns. We thank God despite these challenging times for the faithfulness of the return of tithe by members across the Union. With the mo...
2 December 2020
The Newbold Sisterhood Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
The Newbold Sisterhood celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sabbath 14 November 2020, by leading a special online service at Newbold church based in Berkshire. The Newbold Sisterhood is the Women's Ministries department of Newbold church and reaches the women in the church as well as the wider comm...
2 December 2020
November Diversity Lecture – Does Poverty Have a Colour?
For its final lecture of 2020, the Newbold Diversity Centre was delighted to welcome Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, the CEO of Christian Aid, on Tuesday 10 November. The fact that she so clearly identifies as a Seventh-day Adventist added an extra dimension to the event. She framed her topic as a questio...
2 December 2020
Scottish Mission Youth Day of Fellowship: Blinders or Blinkers?
Engaging. Intriguing. Edifying. Illuminating. These are all words that come to mind describing the Scotish Mission Youth Day of Fellowship hosted on Sabbath 21 November 2020. Though the Covid-19 pandemic prevented the rousing face-to-face meeting that is hosted annually, the young people of the S...
2 December 2020
Reading West Life Development – Reaching Out in Faith
Reaching out to our community during lockdown and the UK Tier system has been problematic to say the least. However, Reading West church decided to look at our situation positively and utilise the technology we had to reach out into our community in ways that we have not tried before. Zoom was ne...
2 December 2020
BUC Presents: Three Cosmic Messages with Mark Finley
This 13-part series goes into the heart of the biblical book of Revelation providing you with a clear and deeper understanding of the events surrounding the last days in light of the Three Angels Messages of Revelation 14.
21 November 2020
Aberdaron Work Retreat
We were blessed with good weather and along with willing spirits we managed to get a good amount of work done.
19 November 2020
New Book for SEC Pastor
Father leaves when he’s a baby and his mother dies young, but not before she has instilled in him the power of education and a love of God
19 November 2020