The Office of Adventist Mission at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists announces the 2018 film contest titled “My Story, My Mission.” Students around the world are invited to creatively express, in one minute or less, what mission means in their lives.
The contest was officially launched in April at the Sonscreen Film Festival in Columbia, Maryland. Young filmmakers have four months to create their masterpiece. The winners will be announced in October at the Society of Adventist…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2018-05-18/2018-adventist-mission-film-contest/
Her Perfect Skin
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| Photo: Jyn Meyer |
She was born with perfect skin into an imperfect world.
I remember her peach-soft,
Milky, white skin on Birth Day.
Little arms that reached out for hugs,
Arms that slid through tiny shirts and lacy dresses.
Years later the red line of scars started appearing.
First Band-Aids and lies,
Finally, I realized that she was cutting herself.
Each new scar was a stab at my heart.
Where had I gone wrong?
Where had we failed so miserably as parents?
How could her life be so miserable?
What raging demon possessed her mind?
Would she ever find the help she needed
To stop slashing at this masterpiece?
Therapy, honesty, medication, and time
Faded her pain and the ugly, red scars. After much prayer,
Patience and love, we were all maturing.
Now I rarely think about her scars,
Unless it is summertime. Her skin is still porcelain fair.
The scars are thick and faded, yet clearly visible.
I am relieved that there are no new ones.
She even wore a sleeveless wedding dress.
Now she envelopes me with warm hugs.
A young woman has graduated from college and
Reaches her arms out to other hurting people.
Yet she is sometimes embarrassed about the scars.
I try to encourage her with these thoughts:
“Remember, that everyone who lives in this world has scars.
Everyone has hurt themselves or others.
Your scars are just more visible than some.
Most people carry their scars on the inside–
In their hearts or minds.
However, they are not more valuable or better than you are.
I believe that your new name is Hope.” *
“I know, Mom,” she says.
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By Gracie Peters, pseudonym. Copyright © 2006 by GraceNotes. All rights reserved. Use of this material is subject to usage guidelines.
* Revelation 2:17
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Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Family First.
Ignite!
In today’s society, we all busily work from day to day completing various tasks we must accomplish. But do we take the time to pause from this chaotic world and realize that there are many in need of the gospel? If we are to spread the great news around all the world, what does it mean to “Ignite?” Through a spiritual retreat on Jan. 19–21, the Durham Fil-Can Seventh-day Adventist Church answered some questions together with Chris Holland
Read more at the source: Ignite!
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Canadian Adventist Messenger.
apr.2018 – Dynamis in concert la Sala de Cultura si Arte “George Topirceanu”, Curtea de Arges. iCer
Tokyo church speaks of miracles ahead of evangelistic meetings
The large water bill shocked Japanese church leaders in Tokyo.
Astonished that the bill had doubled from the previous month, leaders of Amanuma Seventh-day Adventist Church contacted the water company and soon learned that an underground pipe had burst and was spewing water.
The waterpipe could not be repaired, and the water company advised the church to install an above-ground waterpipe. The cost: 7 million yen, or about U.S.$70,000.
The church didn’t have 7 million yen.
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Read more at the source: Tokyo church speaks of miracles ahead of evangelistic meetings
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