The dedication of a high school maths teacher had a big impact on Louise Huang. She wanted to be a doctor but, with COVID on the mind, wondered about some of the associated risks. “He asked if I’d consider teaching. ‘No way,’ I said. Then I realised how much he and my other teachers encouraged and inspired me.” Now Louise is doing the same with students in her community. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/09/29/teacher-to-be-transforms-others/
Welsh Mission Day of Fellowship and Ordination
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/
The Right Strategy to Reach the World
by Amyas Mvunelo | 28 September 2021 | Christianity accounts for about 2.3 billion people globally, 50% of whom are Catholic. Adventism is about .3% of the world population. We have been less than 1% globally in most parts of the world for a very long time with little movement above that number. There are […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-right-strategy-to-reach-the-world/
Wednesday: The Covenant at Sinai
The Exodus and all that it entailed, from the blood on the doorpost in Egypt to the drama at the Red Sea — what an experience! No doubt it made an impression on those who lived through it. (And those who died, from the first-born children in Egypt to the soldiers at the bottom of the sea, God will judge them fairly.) As the Lord said: “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself” (Exodus 19:4).
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Why did the Lord do this stunning and dramatic rescue, actually taking one nation out of another nation, or, as Moses himself said to them: “Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?” (Deuteronomy 4:34)?
Read Exodus 19:4-8. Why did the Lord call the people out from Egypt?
It was as simple as that. God called them out, the seed, the descendants of the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And with these descendants the Lord established His covenant, and they would be, indeed, “a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine” (Exodus 19:5). This relationship was central to the covenant.
This idea of a “special treasure” (segullah), however, could be (and it was, in fact) easily miSunderstood. Their specialness came not from anything inherently holy and righteous in and of themselves. Instead, it was because of God’s grace given to them and because of the wonderful truths that He had bestowed upon them — truths that they were to follow and, as a “kingdom of priests,” eventually spread to the world.
God then gave them some of the stipulations of the covenant, too (their end of the deal, so to speak), the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20), and then this covenant was ratified. Having sprinkled a newly constructed altar with the blood of the offerings, Moses “took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people” (Exodus 24:7). The people again declared that they would obey.
| “When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood … and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you’” ( Hebrews 9.19-20, NKJV). What does the blood signify, and why is it so important, even to us today? |
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Psychological First Aid Increased in Philippines as ADRA Responds to Covid-19
28 September 2021 | From an ADRA press release: The continuing increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases with severe threats to health, safety, and severe economic disruption has led to several challenges now confronted by Filipinos across the nation. In the Philippines, a total of 1.6 million cases have been confirmed, and more than 28,000 deaths […] Source: https://atoday.org/psychological-first-aid-increased-in-philippines-as-adra-responds-to-covid-19/
