For Seventh-day Adventist Church President Ted N. C. Wilson, last week’s pastoral visit to the Middle East was an opportunity to affirm members and see the increasing opportunities they have to serve and help support their communities.
In the Middle East, Wilson affirms church members’ community service
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Health, Ministerial departments summit explores comprehensive ministry
Top leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Health Ministries and Ministerial Association are examining how the two entities can encourage a comprehensive approach to mission and evangelism.
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Thousands of Adventist youth march across Brooklyn Bridge against violence
More than 3,000 Seventh-day Adventist youth and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York last Saturday in a demonstration calling for compassion and an end to violence.
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A Poem in Progress
The Rabbi is dying. He is not any rabbi. He is the Rabbi, the one who left people “astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority” (Matt. 7:28, 29).1
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For Love or Obligation
In the particularly hot debate about cutting the United States’ budget deficit, members of congregational delegations face each other, each side wrapped in their own ideologies. One wants to make sure that programs for the poor are not going to be cut while the wealthy get tax breaks. The other sticks to its “ideological purity,” which is an “anaphylactic allergy to tax increases.”1
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Shepherdesses Seek Strength for the Journey
The Ministers wives of the Cayman Conference enjoyed an unforgettable week on March 22 and 23, when they were visited by both The Shepherdess Coordinators of ATCU and IAD. This gathering included all the Shepherdesses of the Cayman Islands Conference with their coordinator, Mrs. Donnet O’Connor along with the Shepherdess Coordinators from the other fields of the ATCU territory; Mrs. Joan Scavella of the North Bahamas Conference and Mrs. Lyn Smith of the Turks and Cacaos Islands. Missing from the group was the coordinator of the North Bahamas Conference, Mrs. Tinker, who passed on last year.
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The Power of Water
Stretching my legs in the roomy exit row of the Boeing 767, I looked around to see a window seat beside me and a jumper seat for a flight attendant across from me. Both were empty. I prayed for the person who would sit beside me for the 10-hour flight from Moscow to New York.
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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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Inter-America: Health Summit Focuses on Long-Term Community Outreach
The message was clear: Every church must strive to serve the needs of its community by becoming a health, as well as hope, center. This was the resounding theme heard during a four-day health summit which brought more than 220 health professionals and health directors from throughout the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America to Orlando, Florida, from Mar. 20-23, 2013.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's Medical Technology Pinning
In the Department of Medical Technology at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), students are pinned in their third year at the department’s annual Pinning Ceremony. This prestigious event marks a rite of passage that formally thrusts the students into the full-time practical exercise that accompany their studies, allowing them to become lab assistants in various laboratories across the country.
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Watch The Hands
Hands are avid and capable communicators.
Hands “talk” often more than words can ever say. Hands can turn into tight fists or touch lightly as a father cuddles his baby daughter. Hands can say “stop—no more” or “come on, you can do it.”
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Universities from regions throughout the world are Founding Members of IIPT Consortium of Collaborating Universities
DIANA MCINTYRE-PIKE PRESIDENT OF IIPT CARIBBEAN SHARED THE GOOD NEWS FROM FOUNDER LOU D’AMORE, IIPT, ABOUT THE NEWLY-FORMED IIPT CONSOURTIUMOF COLLABORATING UNIVERSITYIES (IIPT-CCU). MCINTYRE-PIKE REITERATED HER COMMITMENT TO D'AMORE IN SAYING “I WILL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH THE UNIVERSITIES HERE IN JAMAICA ESPECIALLY HERE IN MANDEVILLE HOME OF NORTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY
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NCU Montego Bay Campus Reaches Out to Flankers
Residents of the community of Flankers, inclusive of students of Flankers Primary and Junior High, were the recipients of free medical checks during last Thursday's official launch of the Montego Bay Campus of the Northern Caribbean University's Missions. "It is a good thing. Now I don't have to go into town to have these checks done," said Claudette Morris, who resides in the community. "It will help because some people don't have the money to go and have it done outside of the area. In addition, they can come here and also get advice from the nurses."
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Dealing With Disappointment
Disappointment. Nobody likes it; but everybody experiences it.
We’ve all had those dreams and desires that, as we’ve matured, we’ve had to readjust and slide into our mental background. They didn’t fit with reality, so we just smiled at them and moved on.
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In Southern Mexico, Religious Liberty Continues to Grow Despite History of Intolerance
A large-scale festival of religious liberty here in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas underscores how freedom of conscience continues to improve in this region with a history of persecution against some religions.
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Former NCU (WIC) President Dies
Former NCU/WIC president, Kenneth G. Vaz has graciously bowed out to his final rest as he awaits the second coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Internships For Innovation
With operations in more than 30 markets worldwide, Mark Rowe considered his selection for Digicel's internship programme nothing less than a coup.
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Film Fest for NCU
THE Department of Communication Studies at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) stages the two-day Lignum Vitae Film Festival starting April 8-9. It will be held under the theme, 'Show me the ginger: Using media to help Jamaicans to remain Jamaicanly'.
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Like a Mighty Flood – 1 Chronicles 14 (Revived By His Word)
Whenever there is a threat of hurricane or extensive rainfall in Jamaica there are some locations where the inhabitants are anxiously warned to evacuate in order to avert certain disaster. Sometimes when you watch world news casts and you see footage for major flood rains, you get keen sense of the terrifying force of water when you see cars floating like plastic toys and entire houses torn from their foundation. You sometimes see towering trees that become felled and the equilibrium of life becomes distorted. Few things there are that can defy the deadly force of flood waters. When flood waters come you just have to wait it out and hope you survive.
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Winning Project at NCU's Science Symposium Highlighted
ON DECEMBER 3, 2011, The Gleaner told the story of how Violet Whyte of Plum Valley in Charles Town, Portland, used hibiscus petals to make a drink similar in taste to what we call sorrel here in Jamaica. It turned out that hibiscus (Hisbiscus rosa-sinensis) is actually related to sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa). Now, some students and teachers at Cross Keys High School in Manchester have taken the use of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis to a whole new level of versatility.
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