News from the Allegheny East Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which includes churches and schools in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
This year, the Edmondson Heights (Md.) church has designated every fourth Sabbath as “Service Sabbath.” Edmondson Heights has built a shared partnership ministry comprised of small groups called “care teams” to engage members. On the designated Sabbath, church members spend the day focusing on their community.
The St. Leonard (Md.) Emmanuel church recently held its second annual Ministries’ Appreciation Day, where they recognized the value and contributions of each ministry in the church.
Allegheny East Conference’s (AEC) Ministerial Department recently hosted a lay pastors’ retreat, themed “Waking Up the Sleeping Giant.” Led by Gene Donaldson, Ministerial director, the three-day retreat focused on rekindling the embers of faith and personal evangelism.
For years, Joyce Steele’s family made it a point to worship with her at Allegheny East Conference's Mizpah church on the Sabbath closest to her birthday—even after she passed away.
Lawrance Martin, Allegheny East Conference’s (AEC) vice president for Finance, was recognized as the longest serving treasurer in all of the nine regional conferences at last year’s Regional Conferences Treasury Summit held in Atlanta.