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Pastors in Britain Join in GC Evangelism Thrust in Jamaica
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America celebrated in Jamaica on Sabbath 9 February 2019, as more than 8,000 people crowded the Montego Bay Convention Center and an overflow area to worship and witness the results of intense evangelistic efforts and community-impact events across the is...
22 February 2019
BUC Induction for New and Transitional Ministers
The British Union Conference (BUC) Ministerial department under the directorship of Pastor Eglan Brooks, held five days of training designed to better equip ministers for ministry within the UK and Ireland. Held at the BUC board room from Sunday 20th to Thursday 24th January 2019, 22 ministers fr...
31 January 2019
UNITY – BUC Youth Day of Fellowship 2019
The British Union Conference (BUC) Youth Day of Fellowship took place this year on Sabbath 26 January 2019 at the Dominion Centre in Wood Green, London. It was a day in which more than 2,200 youth travelled from all over the British Union ‒ Ireland, Scotland and Wales, North and South England. Th...
31 January 2019
New BUC Documentary Highlights the Early Beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the British Isles
How well do you know the history of how the Adventist Church started in the UK and Ireland? I must confess that having spent six years studying for the ministry I have never gone into too much detail about how the Church started where I was born, raised and have pastored for the past 25 years. My...
31 January 2019
An Immigration Personal Testimony
On 11 November 2018, our family was granted the right to live in the UK after so many years of struggling with the Home Office. Our final court case was held on 17 August 2018 in Birmingham and coming out of the Home Office tribunal victorious, we thanked God and thanked friends and family who ha...
31 January 2019
UK SDA Lawyers Signposting Service (UKSLSS)
On 3 November 2018 we launched the UK SDA Lawyers Signposting Service where the British Union Conference (BUC) introduced an initiative to assist our church members within the territory with a legal signposting resource to assist members with legal issues. The aim is to ensure that if a church me...
31 January 2019
Croydon Adventist church on BBC Radio 4 Sunday service
Croydon Seventh-day Adventist church are no novices when it comes to engaging with the media. With gospel choirs that tour the country performing in prestigious venues and regular members appearing on Songs of Praise, the invitation to be the host church for the weekly BBC Radio 4 Sunday service ...
24 January 2019
Stanborough School's Centenary Celebrations
On Sabbath 6th and Sunday 7th July 2019, the British Union Conference (BUC) will be joining Stanborough Primary and Secondary School in celebrating 100 years of Adventist Education. In the autumn of 1918, Stanborough College (forerunner to Newbold College) opened an elementary department for the ...
24 January 2019
Adventist Church Member Dr Mark Prince Receives OBE From Queen
'What is Truth?'. On Sabbath 17 November 2018, Dr Mark Prince, preached in his own unique, and dynamic way to a packed church. Wood Green had never before witnessed so many visiting friends joining its regular members for worship on a Sabbath morning. God has surely used the personal tragedy in M...
18 January 2019
BUC Religious Liberty Vision 2019
This year the British Union Conference (BUC) intends to build on its vision for Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL). The aim is to promote PARL as an integral facet of the Church in the UK where we can build our understanding of social interaction whilst sharing our faith in an uninhibite...
18 January 2019
Adventists and War – 100 years on since Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
It was called 'the war to end all wars'. Sadly, history tells another tale. Despite the WWI deaths of 17 million soldiers, with the injury of 21 million more, the Imperial War Museum in London records that war has taken place every single year since, killing an estimated 187 million people. Thi...
8 November 2018
Stanborough Park Pastor To Join Buc Secretariat Team
On Thursday 13 September the British Union Conference (BUC) Executive Committee voted to appoint Pastor Jacques Venter as BUC Associate Executive Secretary. Pastor Paul Lockham, who currently serves in this role, will work together with Jacques for a period of four months, before taking early ret...
1 November 2018
Adventists Contribute to Royal Wedding
1.9 billion people who watched the royal wedding around the world on 19 May, would have seen in the midst of the usual pomp and circumstance associated with these events a rather significant spiritual tone. This was evident through the familiar hymns, scriptural passages, a rousing address that c...
23 May 2018
2018 Adventist Mission Film Contest
The Office of Adventist Mission at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists announces the 2018 film contest titled “My Story, My Mission.” Students around the world are invited to creatively express, in one minute or less, what mission means in their lives. The contest was officially laun...
18 May 2018
Runners Brave the Cold for ADRA Fun Run 2018
It would have been so much easier to stay at home in a warm bed, but many runners came out to brave the cold to take part in this year's ADRA fun run. Held in the familiar site of Crystal Palace Park, over 100 people supported the annual event which was held on Sunday 29 April. At these events th...
3 March 2018