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Photographic Highlights of NCU Student Awards Banquet 2013

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The 2013 Citizenship Awards Banquet at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) was a memorable event that epitomised bliss, beauty, and panache. The University Gymnatorium of the Mandeville campus evolved into an enchanted sea of blue and red on Sunday March 3.

Children's Village Dedicated in Central Jamaica

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Educational Foundation for Children Care Inc. (EFCCI) in partnership with the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (CJC) and Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries (ASi) dedicated the first in a series of homes to be used as a children’s village. The Hemsley Johnson Home was dedicated on Sunday February 24, 2013 at the Alta Vista Children’s Village compound in Four Paths Clarendon.

NCU Alumnus’ Work as Guidance Counsellor in the Spotlight

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In recent times, the job of the guidance counsellor has become one of the most challenging in the teaching profession.

NCU Volunteerism Lifts Corporate Area

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The mission was Youth development, as Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Division of Spiritual Affairs and a team from NCU’s Kingston campus took NCU’s Mission Week 2013 to two inner-city communities in Kingston and St. Andrew. The outreach and voluntary efforts were to the benefit of wards of the state at the Maxfield Park Children’s home and students at Charlie Smith High School in Arnett Gardens.

Photographic Highlights of Awardees at NCU's Annual Student Banquet

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The 2013 Citizenship Awards Banquet at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) was a memorable event that epitomised bliss, beauty, and panache. The University Gymnatorium of the Mandeville campus evolved into an enchanted sea of blue and red on Sunday March 3.

The Fight of Faith

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Every one who shall be found with the wedding garment on will have come out of great tribulation. The mighty surges of temptation will beat upon all the followers of Christ; and unless they are riveted to the eternal Rock, they will be borne away. Do not think you can safely drift with the current; you must stem the tide, or you will surely become a helpless prey to Satan’s power.

Spies Like Us...

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Over the past decade five United States ambassadors have graciously invited me to Spaso House, an elegant mansion off the traffic-congested Garden Ring Road, where U.S. ambassadors have lived since the United States established diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933. reason for living in Moscow. Learning that I was an American journalist, he said matter-of-factly, “Oh, you’re a spy.”

Photographic Highlights of NCU RBC Mental Health Workshop

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Over 300 educators and counsellors throughout Jamaica are set to benefit from specialized seminars to bolster the service quality from the public sector. The first of the ‘Training of Trainers Workshop’ commenced today Thursday, March 7 through Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Department of Graduate Counselling Psychology (DGCP) in partnership with the RBC Royal Bank. The project seeks to provide sensitization and awareness training programmes for children and youth aged 0-18, focusing on at-risk youth, their caregivers and parents. Public outreach and education are also key features of this project.

North Jamaica: Church Members Closed Shops, Businesses for Community Outreach

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Trelawny Adventist church members closed their shops, put their farming tools aside and requested a day from work; for what reason you may ask? Witnessing is one, but the members of the Spring Garden District of Seventh-day Adventist Churches took the day to evaluate the needs of those in the farming community of Thompson Town in upper Trelawny.

Inter-America: Students across schools and universities to take time to pray

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Students across Seventh-day Adventist schools and universities throughout the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory set aside their studies to spend a day in prayer and worship on Mar. 7. The special day took place for the third consecutive year. Administrators, principals and teachers took part in promoting spiritual revival among hundreds of their pupils.

Jirí Moskala Named Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary Dean

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Jirí Moskala, a veteran Seventh-day Adventist theologian and seminary professor, will become the new Dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich. He will assume the position on July 1, after current dean Denis Fortin returns to full-time teaching in the Department of Theology & Christian Philosophy at the Seminary beginning fall 2013.

Photographic Highlights of WD Carter Lecture - Unite the People and the Budget

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The Jamaica economy rattled by years of recession, continues to grapple with rising tensions brought on by the economic fallout within the society, the wage freeze for public sector employees due primarily to the signing of a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the sliding value of the local currency.

On Being Parents and Meeting a Genie (only better!)

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The assessment of the commandment to "Honour your father and your mother," as recorded in Exodus 20: 12 seen through the lens of 2 Kings 13: 2, 6, 11, "He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but walked in them" (verse 11), explains the clause that appears in its rendition in Ephesians 6: 1, "Children, obey your parents IN THE LORD, for this is right." It's not just obedience that is right, but obedience "in the Lord."

NCU and RBC Partner to Bolster Education Ministry

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The first-fruits of the Corporate partnership between Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Department of Graduate Counselling Psychology (DGCP) and the RBC Royal Bank when the first in a series of Mental Health Services Training: Training for trainers workshop was hosted on NCU’s main campus on Wednesday March 6, 2013. Over 300 educators and counsellors throughout Jamaica are set to benefit from specialized seminars to bolster the service quality from the public sector. The project seeks to provide sensitization and awareness training programmes for children and youth aged 0-18, focusing on at-risk youth, their caregivers and parents. Public outreach and education are also key features of this project.

In Poland, launch of Adventist television cements growing media ministry

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Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Poland say the launch this month of Hope Channel Poland signals the continued growth of media ministry in the central European country.

Women of ATCU Keep the Evangelistic Torch Burning

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Like the Olympic torch is kept burning as it treks its way to the Olympic stadium, the torch of evangelism throughout ATCU is kept burning by both pastors and lay members during 2013 the Year of the Laity. During the months of January and February pastoral crusades were held across all unions of Inter-American Division including ATCU. This was followed by crusades conducted by laymen throughout the union territory.

Inter-America: Technologists meet for first ever IT summit

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Information technologists and financial officers from throughout Inter-America’s Seventh-day Adventist Church territory met for a special Information Technology Summit at the church’s headquarters office in Miami, Florida, from Feb. 25 to Mar. 1, 2013. The more than 40 church employees met for additional training on the church’s SunPlus accounting software, membership management software, and video and telephone connectivity systems.

Clean curiosity

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Six year-old Danisha Lloyd takes note of the proceedings as Dental Hygienist Curtis Foster, an instructor at the Adventist Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Dental Clinic in Mandeville, Jamaica, conducts an oral examination of her mother, Dalia Lloyd, during a community health fair held Feb. 17, 2013, at the West Indies College Preparatory School.

The Letter

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I was going to stop thinking of you as my friend. We have had many great times, exchanging our problems, enjoying lunch together, visiting in each other’s homes, and helping each other with our problems. I really thought of you as one of my best friends. I have very few, but I counted you as one of my closest.

Week in Review

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Week in Review is a compilation of news and events at Northern Caribbean University.
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