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 Scottish Mission demonstrated their resilience, and adaptation to ‘the new normal’, by eagerly logging on to the Zoom platform to connect with familiar faces they had missed seeing at church programmes…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-12-02/scottish-mission-youth-day-of-fellowship-blinders-or-blinkers/

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 new to us all in March but by June we started to see opportunities for a church without walls. What if we could build relationships with community groups and they would share our church programmes within…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-12-02/reading-west-life-development-reaching-out-in-faith/

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 GodSource: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-11-19/new-book-for-sec-pastor/

The obstacles to their faith were real. In the face of ridicule, social isolation, rejection, frustration, anxieties, without a local church, these youth were not displacedSource: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-11-19/pathfinder-baptism-for-three-modern-day-pioneers/

Today each week ‘Hope with a Smile’ charity is able to reach 50 families including single parents and childrenSource: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-11-19/hope-to-the-hopeless-from-one-persons-kitchen/