Executive Secretary of the Adventist World Church Pastor G. T. Ng will visit Jamaica April 16-18, 2014, during a tour of the Caribbean region. While here he will officially declare the start of the Jamaica Union Conference Youth Jamboree schedule for April 17 – 21 at Camp Verley in Spring Village, St. Catherine. Dr. Ng will also deliver the main address to the more that two thousand young people from across the Union in what is expected to be a very fun and spirit-filled event.
Adventist World Church Secretary to Address Youth Jamboree
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Instant gratification is not soon enough,” opines actress Meryl Streep1—and she is not alone in this rush for the quick fix. In fact, a closer look at twenty-first-century global culture suggests that we have moved altogether into instant gratification mode (IGM).
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"Is It My Fault?"
My phone whistled. A new text message had just come through. I don’t really have time for this, I thought. It was early Friday morning, and I was just sitting down to work on the Sabbath school lesson I was to teach the next day.
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Are You More Spiritual than a 5th Grader?
Karl Haffner, pastor of the Ohio Conference’s Kettering church in Ohio, and his daughter Claire, recently joined forces to repackage and update a series of messages that Pastor Morris Venden gave during a 1975 Week of Prayer at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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Rare Camp Meeting on Remote Island
More than 300 Rotuma islanders gathered for a rare camp meeting over the year end. The gathering became the talk of the 2,000 unique indigenous people who inhabit the isolated islands of Rotuma. Rotumans are more connected ancestrally and culturally to the Polynesian peoples of Tonga, Samoa, Futuna, and Uvea than they are to Fiji, but proudly they constitute a minority people within the Republic of Fiji.
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Free Tax Preparation Program Provides Refunds and Learning Opportunities
Beginning in mid-February, students in Pacific Union College’s Individual Taxation class participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at the Up Valley Family Centre in St. Helena, California. The students prepared tax returns for free for people that earned less than $58,000 per year, applying what they had learned in the classroom as part of a service-learning project that allowed them to grow their skills while providing a valuable service to members of the community.
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Remembering Rwanda - Reconciliation Is the Only Way Forward
How can the people of Rwanda, who have faced unfathomable losses, move forward and rebuild their lives? There is no other way than to learn to forgive and turn the page. Of course, those who have to do most of the forgiving are the Tutsis, but there are also countless moderate Hutu families that were decimated simply because they refused to yield to the murderous agenda of an extremist government.
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"Revelation of Hope" in Manhatten Touches Hearts, Changes Lives
As Pastor Ted Wilson, General Conference President, concluded a powerful, spirit-filled sermon on baptism, he made a moving appeal for individuals in the audience to make a full decision for Jesus. Gradually people began to come forward. First just a few came and then more and more people surged forward. Soon the front of the Manhattan, Greenwich Village church was filled with people. Some had tears streaming down their faces as they surrendered all to Jesus. Others bowed their heads quietly in prayer.
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ASI Inter-America Seeks to Boost Chapter Growth Across The Territory
A special ASI Leadership Training workshop took place at the Inter-American Division Headquarters in Miami, Florida, March 26-27, 2014. The event was held to strengthen the Adventist-laymen and Services Industries (ASI) organization chapters across the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD).
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NCU Student, Mastering the Art of Pastry & Life
It is not very often that one discovers a multifaceted artist, who paints, draws, does photography and is also able to transfer those artistic skills into creating a world of pastry.
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ADRA Part of Relief Efforts Following Earthquake in Chile
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Chile is preparing a response to last week’s 8.2-magnitude earthquake that left seven people dead and disrupted power in and around the city of Iquique.
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Adventist Carl Wilkens Shares Stories From Rwandan Genocide
In 1994, Carl Wilkens signed a document refusing help from the U. S. government, which was working to get him out of Rwanda safely. The only American to stay in Rwanda during the genocide, Wilkens recently spoke to attendees in the first of many lectures held at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, to commemorate the 20th year since the Rwandan Genocide.
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Photographic Highlights of College of Business & Hospitality Management Chapel Session
The staff at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) College of Business and Hospitality Management (CBHM) led the devotional activities during the institution’s Chapel Session on Monday, April 7, 2014.
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Meet the Members of the Herboo Enterprise - Maxwell
The Northern Caribbean University's (NCU) Herboo Enterprise will be representing Jamaica at the International Business Model Competition to be held in Utah, United States, come May, after walking away as winners of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) that was held recently at the Jamaica Conference Centre. Meet Kimiesha T. Maxwell, Research Assistant with Herboo Enterprise.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's Chamber Ensemble to Cayman Islands
The talent and spirit of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) captivated myriad of audiences in the Cayman Islands recently, as the NCU’s Chamber Ensemble toured the islands and participated in the training of musical minds and performances at worship centres.
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NCU's Volleyball Team Draws Closer to Inter-Col Final Four
Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Male Volleyball team served up another win of its maiden entry to the Inter-collegiate competition, when they steam rolled an hapless Montego Bay Community College (MBCC) at the MBCC gymnasium on Monday April 7, 2014. The now highly fancied debutant team, NCU, waltzed passed the tam from Montego Bay 3-1. The easy four set victory saw NCU winning 25-23, 25-19, 24-26, and 25-12 to now move its chances of making the final four more realistic.
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NCU's Chamber Ensemble Wows Cayman Islands Residents
The talent and spirit of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) captivated myriad of audiences in the Cayman Islands recently, as the NCU’s Chamber Ensemble toured the islands and participated in the training of musical minds and performances at worship centres. The highlight of the visit to the British Isle was a grand concert at Georgetown SDA church in Grand Cayman. The team of musical gurus and academicians mesmerized the audiences on the islands as they ministered, met and greeted prospective students, participated in conferences and training seminars. The team of administrators, professors, and students.
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Spotlight on Lignum Vitae Film Festival
THE Lignum Vitae Film Festival kicks off today at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville at 5:00 pm.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's Invitational Debate Series at NCU
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Department of Communication Studies (DCS) recently held the second staging of the annual NCU’s Invitational Debate series on the NCU’s Mandeville campus.
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NCU Debaters Continue to Hone Skills in Invitational Debate Series
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Department of Communication Studies (DCS) recently held the second staging of the annual NCU’s Invitational Debate series on the NCU’s Mandeville campus. In attendance were: Northern Caribbean University (NCU) the University of Technology (UTECH), the University of West Indies Mona (UWI Mona), the University of West Indies Western Jamaica Campus (UWI Western), the Mico University College (Mico), Church Teachers’ College (CTC), Moneague College (MC) and Bethlehem Moravian College (BMC).
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