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June 2016

Chesapeake Conference
Education
Justin Montero and Spencerville youth pastor Stephen Finney pray with Jacob Harris at Harris’ baptism. Photo credit: Juliana Baioni

Spencerville Adventist Academy Offers Student a Second Chance

June 30, 2016 by vmbernard

When Jacob Harris was 8 years old, his family moved from Liberia to Maryland so his father could serve as a Lutheran minister. Harris was bullied in school because he was not from the United States. He decided that he didn’t want to be different and started hanging out with gang members. That decision led him to an unhealthy lifestyle including drugs, fighting and crime.

New Jersey Conference
Perspectives

Editorial: The Best Medicine for Terror

June 30, 2016 by vmbernard

We are living in difficult times. It seems as if our civilization is falling apart because of terrorism, abuse and hatred. It is shocking to watch the news, as apparently harmless people—men, young women, sometimes children or elders—detonate themselves with explosives, killing and injuring dozens of people they do not even know! Can it get any crazier?

Allegheny East Conference
Mountain View Conference
Photo by Howard Lake on flickr

Adventist Community Services Sets up Warehouse in Belle, W.Va.

June 28, 2016 by vmbernard

Following last week's floods in West Virginia, in which 23 people were killed and thousands were left homeless, staff from Mountain View Conference’s Adventist Community Services (ACS) have been actively coordinating relief efforts. The team is working to organize a warehouse in Belle, W.Va, just south of Charleston, where victims will receive necessary items.

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