With the year in its infancy and the Covid19 pandemic causing all events to be cancelled for the foreseeable future the North England Conference (NEC) Youth Department has been busy transitioning online to ensure that the youth stay engaged throughout this time of isolation and lockdown.
Some of our youth are vulnerable members on the fringes of church and without a weekly interaction. Therefore, a regular programme of spiritual activity is needed to ensure their spiritual fervency. With…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-04-23/607/
Aberdaron Work Retreat for NEC Youth
In February this year a group of 10 volunteers spent the week at the Aberdaron Advent Camp to assist with work development. Youth came from all over the North England Conference (NEC) and were overseen in their work by Steve Bull and Akbar Davamony, site manager and assistant manager. During the week the volunteer youth stripped two of the chalets of their current outer layer of wood then the meticulous task of putting the new outer layer on commenced. Whilst few of the volunteers were expert…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-04-23/606/
South Atlantic Conference President To Georgia Governor: Reconsider Decision To End Shelter In Place Order
22 April 2020 | Elder William L. Winston, the president of the Adventist denomination’s South Atlantic Conference, released a letter today in which he refused to open the churches in the conference despite a decision by the Governor of Georgia to end shelter in place orders in the state by April 30. Winston appealed to […] Source: https://atoday.org/south-atlantic-conference-president-asks-georgia-governor-to-reconsider-decision-to-end-shelter-in-place-order/
Soul fighters
Eliminating spirituality from the national conversation only cheapens the experience of Anzacs who wrestled with belief on the battleground, argues a Great War historian. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/04/23/soul-fighters/
Anzacs were secular but . . .
It’s always tempting to see the past in terms of the present, to deny the past its difference. In Australia, perhaps that temptation has been hardest to resist when it comes to Anzac history. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/04/23/anzacs-were-secular-but/
