Newbold’s first Diversity Lecture of 2022 was about eating animals and the effect it is having on human life and the deepening environmental crisis. It was a highly-informed encouragement to follow traditional Adventist health principles!
The speaker, Professor David Clough, Professor in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, has devoted years of study to the place of animals in Christian theology and ethics. His groundbreaking two-volume work, On Animals: Systematic…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-02-10/1058/

We were saddened to learn of the death of Kathleen Marie Best (née Edwards) who passed away on 23 December 2021. Kathleen was born on 13 July 1936 in Kingston, Jamaica. On 27 October 1963 she married David Best and their union brought about three children: Tony, Arnold, and Jaqueline. Kathleen worked as a Stenographer before entering employment within the British Union Conference (BUC) on 5 September 1975. She worked as the Cashier for Stanborough School, a position she held for almost 29…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-02-10/1057/

More than fifty leaders from churches around Scotland gathered in-person in Dundee on Sunday, 30 January for an Officers’ orientation day. Emotion welled quite close to the surface as elder Moses Sichalwe from the Faifley congregation stepped onto the stage to lead the assembly in an enthusiastic rendition of the hymn, “Seeking the Lost,” in which joyful, bass and tenor voices echoed one another in their promptings to go far and wide to bring people “into the fold of the Redeemer.” It has been…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-02-04/scottish-mission-hold-officers-training-day/

On Thursday evening, 3 February 2022, the British Union Conference (BUC) Executive Committee met to conclude the work which the Nominating Committee began for the BUC Session last year. After considerable time spent in prayer and discussion, three new directors were appointed, as follows:
The new Adventist Discovery Centre Director will be Pastor Christian Salcianu, currently serving in the Dublin West and Dublin Romanian churches.
The new Education Director will be Mrs Lorraine McDonald, an…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-02-04/1054/

Holocaust Memorial Day at BUC Peace Garden ‘One Vision’ marked this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday, 1 February, at the British Union Conference (BUC) Peace Garden in Watford. The service comprised guests from across the Watford community.
Keynote speaker Dame Helen Hyde – a Trustee of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, began by showing a family photo of her parents’ family and said only two survived the holocaust. The Nazis exterminated over 6 million Jews. Dame Hyde said…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-02-04/1053/