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**To share this story: The following has been edited from an email letter Leslie N. Pollard, Oakwood University president, sent to students, constituents, and friends of the university after a Feb
Read more at the source: Oakwood President Shares His Experience at HBCU Meeting at White House, Explains Importance
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**To share this story: The 2016 Sonscreen Film Festival award winners The 2017 Sonscreen Film Festival is just around the corner! This year’s festival is being held at Loma Linda University in California on April 6-8. Special guests include Bill Mechanic, Debora Galloway, and Terry Benedict. More than 35 official film selections will be screened during the festival, and awards in multiple categories will be presented on the final evening. Here’s a look back at what a few 2016 award winners had to say about filmmaking, faith, and the festival itself.
Read more at the source: Past Sonscreen Winners on Filmmaking, Faith, and the Festival
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**To share this story: By Darla Tucker La Sierra University Center for Near Eastern Archaeology Director Doug Clark (left) signs a $117,232 grant to develop a new museum in Madaba, Jordan. Also signing the grant document is Nizar Al Adarbeh, Chief of Party for the Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project, or SCHEP, a USAID program
Read more at the source: La Sierra Archaeology Center Director to Lead Jordan Museum Development
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**To share this story: By Scott Christiansen In mid-2015, members of the leadership team in the Northern New England Conference (NNEC) were pondering the sober realiza- tion that every one of the major population centers in their three-state territory showed up on the list of the top 10 most secular cities in the United States. This realization further stoked their desire to proclaim the Word of God and build His involvement, mass mailings, church planting, public-access television — a fairly basic hurdle emerged: they just didn’t have much demographic data to work with. And without such data, determining the merits of various ideas and approaches was difficult. For instance, should they tailor outreach efforts to millennials or empty-nesters or retirees? Or should they tailor their efforts to minority data, but also knew they could not afford to commission a custom GIS (geographic information system) study.
Read more at the source: Northern New England Conference Initiates Long-Term Church-Planting Project
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**To share this story: By Kimberly Luste Maran Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah celebrates her residency match with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s neurosurgical department with her husband, Kwabena Yamoah, a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland.
Read more at the source: Adventist Student Becomes First Black Female in Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Residency
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Church Connect.
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