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Valuing Water
Did you now that the average person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day? But most of us in the UK use water without thinking. We brush our teeth and let the water run in the sink. We boil a full kettle to make one hot drink. We wash clothes on a daily basis, water plants and take long shower...
2021-03-18T17:05:00.000Z
Death of Pastor James Phillip
Sadly, Pastor Phillip passed away peacefully in hospital as a result of chronic illness.
2021-03-07T13:50:34.000Z
Online Bible Course Now Available
The ADC course Try Jesus - The Story of Jesus is now live on www.discoveronline.org.uk We have also launched Coping with Stress as an additional new online course on www.discoveronline.org.uk There are now twenty (20) local churches Online Bible Schools which are also live. Try Jesus -...
2021-03-04T16:48:32.000Z
Football Ministry in Reading
My name is James, and I am currently a full-time A-level student. Around 2-and-a-half years ago my friends and I were in general conversation and one of us posed a question. "Why don't we start a football team?" A lot of us had been playing football together since primary school, we also had olde...
2021-03-04T11:53:41.000Z
Chiswick Church Homeless Project
The plight of the homeless and those sleeping rough has never been at a more drastic level. According to latest government figures in the autumn of 2020, 2,688 are estimated to be sleeping rough every single night. This staggering figure must be labelled inaccurate at best, with the knowledge of ...
2021-03-04T11:50:36.000Z
Community Parent Starts Funding Initiative for Seventh-day Adventist School
Dudley House School , the Seventh-day Adventist school in Grantham, is amazingly blessed with parents who truly believe in the education the school offers. When, during a parents' evening, it was revealed to parents that the school was experiencing Covid-19-related financial troubles, the earnest...
2021-03-04T11:43:16.000Z
New Website Launch for Norwich
1 March 2021 was a special night for the Norwich Seventh-day Adventist church as they launched their new website out into the world. We had special guest speakers (Pastor Sam Davies, SEC Communication Director; Pastor Richard Daly, BUC Communication Director) highlighting the importance of this...
2021-03-04T11:20:12.000Z
Positive Trends in Tithes Across the BUC
Deep into this latest lockdown, the green shoots of a hopeful recovery of health abound. Continued extremely positive tithe and notes FYI below: 1. BUC-wide tithe down on 2019 by £1,645,867 (6.8%). 2. SEC & NEC tithe down by £1.09m (-7.0%) and £570k (-8.5%) on 2019. 3. SM (+9.8%) & WM (+8.1%) & I...
2021-03-02T12:17:00.000Z
York celebrates 100 years of Adventism
On Sabbath 13 February 2021, York Seventh-day Adventist church celebrated 100 years of the Adventist message in the city. Although we were unable to celebrate together in person we were joined virtually by many past members and pastors who may not have been able to attend physically if we were ab...
2021-02-21T10:30:00.000Z
Organisations Team up for Covid-19 Vaccine Accessibility
One Vision has teamed up with Met Coaches, the Hub Watford Adventist church plant and the British Union Conference (BUC) to offer residents in the community free transport to local vaccine centres. Ruth Stewart co-founder of The Hub church plant in Watford, which started two years ago, said in...
2021-02-17T10:34:52.000Z
Death of Pastor Michael Murtagh
We were saddened to learn of the death of Pastor Desmond Murtagh on 25 January 2021. Pastor Murtagh was born on 14 July 1926 in Dublin, Ireland. He married Alice (Peggy) Hall on 31 May 1955 and their union brought about Jackie, Janet, Karen and Neil. At age 15, Pastor Murtagh left Dublin for Engl...
2021-02-17T10:30:55.000Z
Stanborough Primary School Supports Wellbeing of Pupils
Stanborough Primary School is committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of their pupils and staff. As they near the end of their busy first spring term, they would like to acknowledge their amazing pupils for their dedication in continuing to show our school values despite the c...
2021-02-17T10:14:49.000Z
COVID-19 Vaccines: Addressing Concerns, Offering Counsel
By: General Conference Department of Health Ministries, General Conference Biblical Research Institute, and Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy and School of Public Health Seventh-day Adventists look to the coming of Christ as the great culmination of history and an end of all disease, suffe...
2021-02-05T10:24:06.000Z
NEC and BUC Vote New Draft Constitution
Constitutions are the documents which underpin all of our activities as a Church. Because we are part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, our constitutions are based on models provided by the General Conference. This helps to ensure that, wherever you go in the world, our churches do t...
2021-02-04T09:48:00.000Z