October 2020 Issue
What the church needs to effectively evangelize the world
Ron Clouzet
With the second decade of the twenty-first century being engulfed in crises, a key question is, what do people want or need from the church? Recently I wrote about “the evangelism diamond.”1 In this model, the church first must pray for the Holy Spirit to lead in the…
Out of the blocks! Inter-American Division responds to strategic plan
Jeffrey O. Brown
Jeffrey O. Brown (JB): I have the privilege of interviewing Balvin B. Braham, D. Ed, who is assistant to the president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists (IAD), with responsibilities for evangelism and leadership development. Thank you, Dr. Braham,…
True or false—Giving is better than getting
Lilya Wagner
My family came to the United States as refugees with almost no worldly goods. Growing up for some years in South America, I observed my parents, outfitted by the Seventh- day Adventist Church, sharing what little they had with people in the Andes who had even less.…
Demographics and the future of the church
Claude Richli
I was recently standing on the 50th floor of a downtown hotel in Bangkok, contemplating with astonishment the mass of buildings below. I had visited Bangkok for the first time in the 90s and, while it was not a small city by any means, I remember Bangkok as being distinctly…
Embracing God’s heart for immigrants and refugees
S. Joseph Kidder, Boubakar Sanou
Several years ago, my [Joseph’s] brother and his family came to the United States from Iraq as refugees. I contacted the pastor of the Adventist church near where my brother and family settled. The pastor went to visit them, along with two church members. The purpose…
Crossing the world—or crossing the street?
David M. Klinedinst, Bryan Mann
The killing by police of George Floyd, an unarmed black person in the United States, has caused the flag of racial awareness to be raised all over the world. Some years ago, a similar death caused pastors in the Saint Louis metropolitan area in the United States to…