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/
A spiritual wrestle under stress of war
Professor Daniel Reynaud’s reading of their diaries and letters provides a glimpse into the soul of more than 1000 members of the Australian Imperial Force, 27 of whom he profiles in his new book, The Anzacs, Religion and God. He reveals in this question and answer what the personal and sometimes philosophical narratives reveal about the relationship between war and religion. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/04/23/a-spiritual-wrestle-under-stress-of-war/
