The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Scotland is launching a fundraising drive across its territory to rapidly raise emergency funds to help with the immediate relief efforts for those affected by the Ukraine Conflict. Funds will be distributed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency to relief efforts that they are co-ordinating in countries around Ukraine
An appeal is being made for individual church members and local churches to make a significant contribution to this relief work that…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-03-03/scottish-mission-launches-ambitious-ukraine-humanitarian-fundraising-drive/
Love
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 1 John 3:1.
John says, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” No language can express this love; we can describe but a faint degree of love that passeth knowledge. It would require the language of the Infinite to express the love that has made it possible for us to be called the sons of God. In becoming a Christian, a man does not step down. There is no shame in having connection with the living God.
Jesus bore the humiliation and shame and reproach that justly belonged to the sinner. He was the Majesty of heaven, He was the King of glory, He was equal with the Father; and yet He clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity might touch humanity, that divinity might lay hold of divinity. Had He come as an angel, He could not have been a partaker with us of our sufferings, could not have been tempted in all points like as we are, He could not have sympathized with our sorrows; but He came in the garb of our humanity, that as our substitute and surety, He might overcome the prince of darkness in our behalf, and make us victors through His merits.
[As we stand] under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, the inspiration of His love fills our hearts. When I look upon Him whom my sins have pierced, the inspiration from on high comes upon me; and this inspiration may come upon each one of you through the Holy Spirit. Unless you receive the Holy Spirit, you cannot have the love of God in the soul; but through a living connection with Christ, we are inspired with love and zeal and earnestness.
We are not as a block of marble, which may reflect the light of the sun, but cannot be imbued with life. We are capable of responding to the bright beams of the Sun of righteousness; for as Christ illuminates our souls, He gives light and life. We drink in the love of Christ as the branch draws nourishment from the vine. If we are grafted into Christ, if fiber by fiber we have been united with the living Vine, we shall give evidence of this fact by bearing rich clusters of fruit.—The Review and Herald, September 27, 1892.
Ye Shall Receive Power p. 71
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Prayer Requests
—-Please pray for E and her children. R
—-Please pray for the family of Kevin L who passed away this week. K
News Briefs for March 3, 2022
News reports from Australia, Brazil, Mexico, the United States. Hanging On for Dear Life Extreme rainfall across South Queensland Conference (SQC) and North New South Wales (NNSW) Conference in Australia has seen Adventist churches and schools evacuated and thousands of homes flooded. According to NNSW Adventist Church President Adrian Raethel, Murwillumbah Seventh-day Adventist church, Tweed […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-march-3-2022/
Friedensau Takes in Refugee Students from Ukrainian SDA College
by Andreas Bochmann | 3 March 2022 | (Late report: A reliable source says that the UACHE Campus was bombed last night, March 2. Students are gone, but the campus is being used as housing for Internally Displaced Persons. Dr. Bochmann has promised information later today as to how you can contribute to Friedensau’s refugee […] Source: https://atoday.org/friedensau-takes-in-refugee-students-from-ukrainian-sda-college/
A Tale of Two Schools: Andrews University, Union College Deal with Offensive Worship Presentations
Andrews University President Andrea Luxton apologized for stereotypical perceptions of a recent Chapel Talk speaker at the school. Allegedly offensive statements also made by a worship speaker at Union College, but Union College and ADRA have refused to reveal what was said. Videos of both presentations have been taken down at the respective schools. 02 […] Source: https://atoday.org/a-tale-of-two-schools-andrews-university-union-college-deal-with-offensive-worship-presentations/
