Sandra Doran

Sandra Doran, PhD, is associate superintendant of education, Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Winter Park, Florida, United States.

Articles by Sandra Doran

The Sabbath: A day of rest and gladness

January 2015

When I was four years old, my father worked the night shift at Bostitch Company. Each morning Dad met his counterpart on the day shift and handed over the work, providing continuity on the assigned projects. Interestingly enough, the day…

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Work in Sparsely Settled Districts

February 1945

In the State of North Dakota alone, there are at least two hundred small towns with a popu­lation of five hundred or less. The majority of these towns are in areas in which there are no churches. This situation is probably repeated many times…

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Testing Methods of Advertising

September 1949

There is a multimillion-dollar organiza­tion, employing thirty thousand persons, which spends an estimated one hundred thousand dollars a year in advertising cam­paigns, which have apparently never been tested.…

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Engineers as Well as Repairmen

February 1956

A nationally known magazine not long ago claimed that a certain preacher probably "did more to mold American thinking than any other single influ­ence except the Bible."—The Saturday Evening Post, Jan.…

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Being organized isn't all that efficient!

July 1985

The organized pastor. Somewhere in the back of all of our minds he exists, dressed in a sharply pressed suit, its pockets lined with date books, calendars, and "to do" pads. Arising at 6:00 A.M. for his personal worship, he plunges into…

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Every Minister Needs a Lover-Just Be Sure It's Your Spouse

September 1991

The authors have designed a book with the busy pastoral couple in mind. Intended to be used as a manual for couples wanting to enrich their marriages, it is divided into 30 practical, readable segments dealing with every thing from finances…

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Youth ministry in the nineties

March 1994

It used to be that church youth meetings meant sitting in a hard pew, singing three verses of "Throw Out the Life Line," and listening to 45 minutes of thinly disguised moralizing. Not anymore.

The youth emphasis…

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An interview with George Brown

October 2008

Editor’s note: Prior to retiring in 1993, George Brown served as president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists for 13 years. He began his ministry as a pastor in the Virgin Islands. His rich and varied career includes…

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