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ZUSDAF Dorcas Retreat 2024: To Love is to Serve
ZUSDAF Dorcas, the Women’s Ministries arm of the Zimbabwe UK Seventh-day Adventist Fellowship, hosted over 400 women at their 2024 annual retreat in Milton Keynes. Themed ‘To Love is to Serve,’ the event featured worship, community service, and literature distribution, fostering spiritual growth and cultural connection.
28 November 2024
Tottenham Lighthouse SDA Church at Haringey Remembrance Sunday Service
Tottenham Lighthouse Church joined Haringey Council's 2024 Remembrance Sunday Service at West Green War Memorial, with Pastor Jude Jeanville leading prayers and a Pathfinder laying a wreath. The event honoured those fallen in war and included church-led community support and refreshments.
14 November 2024
UCY Hosts Inaugural Education & Career Day at Balham SDA Church Featuring TV Presenter Mark De-Lisser
UCY’s inaugural Education & Career Day at Balham SDA Church featured workshops, exhibits from organisations like Newbold College, and a keynote by TV presenter Mark De-Lisser, inspiring youth and professionals alike.
13 November 2024
SEC Area 8 Media Training Equips Churches with Technical Skills for Digital Outreach in Cambridge
Cambridge Seventh-day Adventist Church hosted the SEC Area 8 ‘How to Innovate Your Church’ training on November 10, 2024. Sessions led by Dr. Sorin Petrof, Don Roberts, and Stefan Stanciu covered storytelling, website management, and audiovisual production, equipping church media teams with practical tools for effective outreach and engagement.
13 November 2024
83 Empowered for Mission at Willesden and Holloway SDA Churches' Prayer Retreat in Milton Keynes
Over 80 attendees joined a prayer retreat in Milton Keynes, hosted by Willesden and Holloway SDA Churches, for a weekend of inspiring messages, workshops, and an anointing service to empower prayer intercessors for mission.
13 November 2024
BUC STATEMENTS – 8 NOV 24
The British Union Conference (BUC) continues to support the South England Conference (SEC) as they expedite the planned process pertaining to a non-recent sexual child abuse case that Channel 4 News ran last Tuesday, 29 October 2024. We understand that the SEC is arranging a meeting with the surv...
8 November 2024
If You See Something, Say Something - Responding to Abuse
Recent shocking revelations in the national press have rocked the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the British Union Conference to its foundations and sent reverberations around the world Church. The exposure of evil in our community of faith is a sobering reminder that we ought to "Be sober, be v...
8 November 2024
Safeguarding – A Biblical Mandate
A quote of disputed origin claims that "The measure of a civilisation is how it treats its weakest members." While the source of the reference may be in doubt, the truth of the sentiment resonates with the plethora of biblical calls to advocate and act on behalf of the vulnerable. The psalmist ur...
1 November 2024
How to Heal
"'But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the Lord,…" Jeremiah 30:17 We sat in reflective silence, processing the words just spoken over the several hours it took to share her story. Recounting the catalogue of childhood traumas and the subsequent repercussions in her adu...
1 November 2024
Building Bridges: Stevenage Sabbath School Introduces ‘Lovesharing’ for Outreach
Sabbath School in Stevenage was a great blessing. The approach taken by our PM Director was informative, insightful, and educational. The focus was more on making the church a pleasant, welcoming, perfumed atmosphere for the community and members. We were asked this key question: Why does the chu...
31 October 2024
Hackney’s Community Ministries minister to the homeless at The Strand
Last Sunday, 27th October 2024, members of the Hackney Community Ministries department ministered to the homeless at The Strand in Central London. We go out and feed the homeless once every month at The Strand. Among the volunteers in our team is 82-year-old Sister Emelda Greer and our current ol...
31 October 2024
Pathfinders Embrace Adventure and Faith at Area 1 Curriculum Camp in Chapel Porth
One blustery weekend from Friday, 11 October, to Sunday, 13 October 2024, 35 Pathfinders and over a dozen counsellors gathered at Chapel Porth for our first Pathfinder Curriculum Camp in recent memory. For many Pathfinders, this was their first camping experience, and they eagerly erected their t...
30 October 2024
Go Downham! Inspired for Mission
Saturday, 14th September 2024, marked another successful day for Downham SDA Church. Following many prayers and planning meetings, department leaders working together under the guidance of the Personal Ministries and Health Ministries departments were granted permission by Bromley Council to deli...
30 October 2024
Hanwell SDA Church welcomes local councillors and health professionals at inaugural "Community Freebies Day"
It was an immense honour and a great privilege to have three of our esteemed local councillors inaugurate our "Community Freebies Day", highlighting Public Health Promotion, Cancer Awareness and Detection, Health and Wellbeing, Community Cohesion, and Community Champions on 20th October 2024. Thi...
30 October 2024
Hope has a Name… and He is a solution to our Crisis
Walthamstow two weeks series culminating in four Baptisms
30 October 2024