Allegheny East Conference

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter challenges church members to “wake up and activate.”

A pavilion at Allegheny East Conference’s Pine Forge Academy in Pine Forge, Pa., collapsed last week after 15-plus in

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The North American Division’s (NAD) 2013 InStep for Life Awards recently confirmed what many around the Columbia Union already knew—we love being active and healthy! Several Columbia Union members recently

“These are not union projects,” explains Frank Bondurant, the Columbia Union Conference’s vice president for Ministries Development. “In fact, it’s completely flipped. These projects start at the local church.”

Harriet Langley, a member of Allegheny East Conference’s Pisgah church in Bryans Road, Md., could never forget the Jefferson family. As a long-serving member of the church’s Adventist Community Services (ACS) team, she had helped many, many people, but this family was different. “The father had gotten hurt on the job and couldn’t work,” she recalls. “When they couldn’t pay the bills, he and his family were put out of the trailer they were living in.”