The challenges to young Christians in urban communities were the focus of the first Diversity Lecture of the 2021-22 academic year at Newbold College, on Tuesday evening 14 September 2021. The featured speakers were Pastor Lorraine (Lolly) Fontaine, a pastor in central London and Thomas Mwadimé, Youth Ministries Digital Co-ordinator for the Adventist church in southern England.  When the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, paid Adventist youth leaders were furloughed and the responsibility…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-09-30/newbold-diversity-lecture-challenges-to-young-christians-in-urban-communities/

What a blessing this past weekend (24-26 September) was for the Adventurers, Pathfinders and parents of Plymouth church and their friends, the Exeter Pathfinder Club! Everyone gathered at Chapel Porth Campsite for the first Pathfinder Drill and Drum Bootcamp in memory to reach the far Southwest of the South England Conference (SEC).
Worship took place in a small marquee covered in fairy lights at the top of the field, creating a warm homely atmosphere. The younger children enthusiastically…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-09-30/drill-and-drum-reaches-the-southwest/

“the followers of Jesus were a handful of people whom the authorities in Jerusalem regarded as ordinary, simple, unlettered, and ignorant men and women. There were just twelve men essentially, and several others with them. They had nothing to recommend them, no great names, no degrees, no money, no means of communication or of advertising. They had nothing at all, they were nobodies. And yet what we know to be a fact is that this handful of ignorant and unlettered people turned the world upside…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-09-30/blackburn-day-of-fellowship/

On Sabbath 18 September, for the first time since the lockdown, members from within the Welsh Mission territory were able to come together for a Day of Fellowship. Held at the Holiday Inn hotel conference suite in Newport, approximately 200 people assembled wearing their masks and in their ‘family bubbles’, to enjoy a day that brought spiritual enrichment, fellowship, joy and tears.Pastor Emanuel Bran, outgoing Welsh Mission President (newly elected North England Conference Executive Secretary)…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-09-29/welsh-mission-day-of-fellowship-and-ordination/

SEC Pathfinders celebrate World Pathfinder DaySource: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-09-21/world-pathfinder-day-in-the-park/