At the 64th Session of the North England Conference (NEC), delegates voted for a new President to lead the church at the NEC for the next four years. The three-day session, which took place from 11 -13 September at the Leonardo Hotel in Hinckley, Leicester, concluded with some changes in the leadership. We bring you a profile of the newly elected President, Pastor Dr Steve Palmer.
Pastor Dr Steve Palmer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Cuban mother and a Jamaican father. He emigrated to…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2142/

A massive, unexpected storm and the threat of another at this year’s much-anticipated International Pathfinder Camporee in Gillette, Wyoming, USA, forced the organisers to end the event a day earlier than scheduled at its new venue.
The largest Pathfinder Camporee, which took place from 5-11 August, had 60,000 attendees. Five hundred and fifty participants were from the British Union Conference (BUC) territory. They remained unfazed by the American storm that disrupted the camping grounds on…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2141/

The Stanborough Press Open Day was held Sunday, 8 September, with a special emphasis on the 140th-anniversary celebration of ministry through their publications. Amongst the various reflections were acknowledgements and presentations to past Press managers, editors, long-serving staff, and authors.
One of the authors acknowledged during the event was Sharon Platt-McDonald, British Union Conference (BUC) Director of Health, Community Services, and Women’s Ministries. The Stanborough Press…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2140/

21st-century life demands that we acquire ‘stuff’. James Wallman, in his book Stuffication: Why We’ve Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever, speaks about ‘that system, where more is always better, you can never have enough’.
Often, we pray for God to supply our wants over our needs, our desire for ‘something’ new over ‘being made new’, and our want for a better-paid job so we display our trappings of wealth instead of inviting Him to imbue our lives with generosity. 
God is…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2139/

Are you looking to tangibly support Christian education? Look no further – there is something you can do, a new initiative that will make a difference in a child’s life, potentially for eternity.
Did you know that there are parents in the North England Conference who would love to give their young children a Christian education at a Seventh-day Adventist school, but currently cannot because of lack of funds?
There are even some who live many miles away from a Seventh-day Adventist school but…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2138/

Someone said that anyone who leaves a position they held for many years will experience some nostalgia.
That is how we felt on 17 August 2024 at Newbold College when several hundred friends, colleagues, parents, and church members held a retirement service to celebrate Pastor Louis Renner Yaw Amakye’s many years of achievement as a servant of God.
Pastor Louis Amakye, in his own words, used Psalms 35:18 to express his gratitude to God for his many years of faithful service. His journey began…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2137/

Dennis Porter was born in 1930 in Tottenham to a mother who became an Adventist in 1899 at thirteen. The baby Dennis was dedicated in the Holloway church, and according to his sixteen-year-old sister, he bawled throughout the ceremony. His parents later moved to Edmonton, and his mother took him to the church there. He was eventually baptised at sixteen and, at twenty-one, began lay preaching in churches other than his own, a ‘career’ that was to last for sixty years.
In 1965, he became the…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2024-09-19/2136/