Six months from the initial request by the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Maranatha Volunteers International completed a One-Day School campus for the Mahuma Sur Primary Adventist School in Curaçao. School began at this new location in January with 225 students enrolled.
Adventist Volunteers Replace Storm-ravaged School in Curaçao
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NCU Kingston Campus Honours Outstanding Students
The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Kingston Campus recently honoured more than 50 outstanding students for their academic performance at the institutions annual Honours Convocation. The Ceremony was held at the Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in Kingston. The administrators lauded students who maintained an above average academic standing for the year 2011-2012 with certificates and plaques of commendations at the stellar event. A dedication service for the United Student Movement (USM) officers for the Kingston campus was also a main feature.
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Sermon Topics for Spring Week of Prayer
The annual Spring Week of Prayer is at hand! This spirit-filled event will run from January 25 to February 2, 2013. Week of Prayer is organized by the Office of the Church Pastor at Northern Caribbean University and features guest presenter, Dr. Clive Dottin, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Director for the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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Annual Citizenship Banquet 2013 Approaches
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) will host its annual Citizenship Awards Banquet on March 3, 2013 under the theme "United Colours of NCU”. The Banquet, which will be held at the NCU Gymnatorium in Mandeville, is organized by the Division of Student Services and will highlight outstanding faculty, staff, and students.
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European Court Says U.K. Equality Laws Trump Personal Religious Beliefs
The European Court of Human Rights on January 15 ruled that equality laws trump personal religious beliefs, rejecting three of four appeals filed by British Christians who were fired or disciplined for expressing religious beliefs in the workplace.
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2013 Adventist World Budget Focus Is Mission, Administrative Support
The 2013 budget of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s world headquarters funds mission work and administrative support outside of North America, as well as the operation of the headquarters building.
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Revived by His Word- Déjà vu: Ahithophel Foreshadows Judas – 2 Samuel 17
The more things seem to change, the more they actually remain the same. Ahithophel betrays David, and sides with Absalom, and for him the story ends in suicide. Judas betrays Jesus, and his story also ends with suicide.
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Church leadership commits to furthering spiritual revival as Year of the Laity begins
Propelled by a spiritual revival initiative set in motion two years ago throughout the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD), top church leaders launched the start of the territory-wide Year of the Laity this weekend. The event, held at the IAD’s headquarter office in Miami, Florida, gathered church leaders from throughout Inter-America’s 22 church regions and included a communion service and challenge to continue in a lifestyle of daily prayer, study of the Bible and sharing the gospel everywhere. Organizers called the event its first “Holy Convocation”.
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Union Officer Bemoans Nation's ills and Calls for More Prayer
Against the background of a fragile economy and the gruesome crimes committed across the nation, Elder Bancroft Barwise, Treasurer for Jamaica Union Conference told the North Jamaican Adventist leaders on January 13, 2013 that they need to invest more time in prayer.
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First religious liberty symposium in Guadeloupe spurs civic engagement
Seventh-day Adventist public affairs leaders heralded the church’s first religious liberty symposium here in Guadeloupe as a model for more civic engagement at local regions worldwide.
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Mission aviation engineer burned in accident in Papua New Guinea
An airplane engineer serving a mission fleet in Papua New Guinea suffered burns on 50 percent of his body Tuesday following a fire during a routine maintenance on a new plane.
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Mission President Encourages Members to be like Elijah and Elisha
Pastor Michael A. Smith President of the Turks and Caicos Islands Mission encouraged the Adventist membership on the island of Grand Turk to follow the examples of Elijah and Elisha in preparation for going to heaven in his Friday night sermon during convention 2013 on that Island. This service was held at the Ebenezer Church on Front Street.
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NBC Worships Together in Convention 2013
Using the theme coined by the North Bahamas Conference (NBC) for 2013, “Transformed by His Grace,” convention for the Abaco district began on Friday, January 11 as members and visitors converged at the Marsh Harbour SDA Church for an evening of praise and preaching. After greetings from the conference’s administration, Pastor Laurent S. Grosvenor, guest speaker for the weekend, delivered a discourse based on Nehemiah chapter 6.
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Adventists Prepare for New York City Outreach
Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists from the Greater New York area – where the overall population is estimated at 19,015,900 people, more than 50 percent above the population of metro Los Angeles – gathered at a series of January 18-20, 2013, meetings to prepare for a major evangelistic outreach called “NY13.”
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Taking the Hint
Nina, our church’s head deaconess, accosted me in the hall one Sabbath morning.
“Come with me,” she said, tugging at my arm. “I want to show you something.”
I immediately put up a protest, reminding her that the worship service would start in 10 minutes, and I was responsible for ensuring that it ran smoothly.
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Tried and True
I don’t adapt readily to change. My car is an example of that. I’ve been driving my black Honda Prelude for more than two decades now—and it’s still going strong. Bought new in 1991, it has moved with my family and me from North Carolina to Maryland to Michigan to Idaho and back to Maryland.
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Week in Review
Week in Review is a compilation of news and events at Northern Caribbean University.
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NCU Alumnus passes
Born 12 December, 1922, in East End, Grand Cayman, Percival Wilbert (Will) Jackson was the son of Lydia Welcome-Jackson and Herbert Jackson. When Lydia passed away, Will was only 4 years old, at which time his dear old aunt Florrie Bodden and Simpson Jackson took him in their care, raising him as he was their own son, teaching him all the Christian principles that he lived by all of his life.
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Spring Week of Prayer 2013, a stirring of the mind, body and soul
Each semester a week is set aside for the University community to renew, strengthen and foster new relationships with God through “Week of Prayer.” This tradition, that was planted by the Holy Spirit, is a time when the University Family aims to focus on Him “in whom we live and move and have our being.”
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Sermon Topics for Spring Week of Prayer
The annual Spring Week of Prayer is at hand! This spirit-filled event runs from January 25 to February 2, 2013. Week of Prayer is organized by the Office of the Church Pastor at Northern Caribbean University and features guest presenter, Dr. Clive Dottin, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Director for the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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