Andrew Oey Kuntaraf, 33, director of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist’s Church Membership Software office, was killed April 6, 2013, in a traffic accident in Charles Town, West Virginia. City police there are continuing their investigation, a department spokesman said.
Andrew Kuntaraf, 33, Church Software Architect, Dies
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Lay Author’s Work Gains Top Industry Honors for Adventist Review
Two lay members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who published articles in Adventist Review magazine in 2012 each received one of the Christian world’s top publishing prizes: Awards of Excellence from the Associated Church Press, an industry group. A total of 11 awards were presented to Adventist Review and Adventist World writers, staff and designers for work published last year, during ACP’s convention awards banquet on April 4, 2013, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Photographic Highlights of DCS Film Festival Awards Ceremony 2013
Two students of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Department of Communication Studies' (DCS) Jevon Minto and Janeil Lambert were on Monday April 8, 2013 declared the university's top mass communication students and were robed with the burgundy jackets. Like the green jacket awarded golf's Masters winners the burgundy blazer is a symbol of prestige that inducts the wearers into an exclusive club of high achievers.
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Waking Up at My Post of Duty: 1 Chronicles 20 (RBHW)
Rarely, if ever, does sin come as a "one piece meal;" it comes in bundles, though always with "simple, non-threatening innocence" at first. But left to run its course unchecked, it will leave a trail of tragedy and extreme trauma. We must always be alert for the first signs.
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Pray That You Don't Get That Teacher!
I was privileged recently to overhear two university students talking about school. Invariably their conversation led to lecturers and it was not surprising to observe the grain of their conversation; a lecturer was deemed good or bad to the extent that his/her exams were "passable." They spoke of lecturers who, from every indication, wanted their students to successfully sit their examinations.
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Photographic Highlights of DCS Film Festival
That’s a Wrap! Like a steaming cup of ginger tea in the evening, curtains came down on the Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Department of Communication Studies (DCS) Communication Symposium and Lignum Vitae Film Festival at the Solomon Harriott Lecture Theatre on the Mandeville campus. The venue was bursting at its seams, as each production was scrutinized by the diverse audience of students, faculty, staff, and visitors affiliated with the media industry or just curious to see what the buzz was about at the third staging of the DCS Film Festival. Of the eight awards that were up for grabs, Richard Odane Forsythe walked away with two trophies inclusive of the coveted Best Picture with his Stages Production.
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Photographic Highlights: International Diversity Weekend
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is home and training ground for scholars from across the Caribbean, neighbouring and distant continents. NCU’s Office of International Student Services celebrates and showcases this cultural convergence annually during the aptly dubbed International Diversity Weekend. This special weekend highlights the melting pot of peoples and cultures which is embraced by the University. It is during this period that students become acquainted or re-acquainted with the myriad of ethnicities that are represented in the student populace.
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That Mission Field Down the Street
Nine years ago I started meeting kids at the local public high school for lunch. I went because a girl from my church asked me to. A couple years later I ended up restarting the campus Christian club after it had shut down. For several years now I’ve been meeting with students of all denominations for lunch every week.
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Two Books, A Simple Request, and a changed Life
As a young priest serving in Portugal in the mid-1930s, Ernesto Ferreira envisioned his future filled with lifelong service to his church and its parishioners. He couldn’t know that within just a few short years a simple request from a member of his congregation and the reading of what were to him two unfamiliar books would dramatically alter his course and turn his life upside down.
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Aspects of the African Heritage Explored at NCU’s Humanities Symposium
The Department of Humanities at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) led an intellectually stimulating discourse on the African Heritage at its symposium on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Faculty, staff and students as well as other authorities on the subject of African Heritage converged on NCU’s Mandeville Campus to discourse on the theme, “Breaking the Silence, Unleashing the African Thunder: Our African Heritage in Retrospect.”
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Publishing work was central to early Adventist Church
In July of 1849, James White packed copies of “The Present Truth” into a borrowed carpetbag and trekked eight miles to the post office in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. He was taking the first steps toward what would become a global publishing ministry.
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NCU Student Aims to Feed 5000
MOTIVATED by Christ's famous miracle in which he used five loaves and two fish to feed 5,000 people, 18-year old Jordon Bennett is aiming to feed a similar number of homeless Jamaicans.
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Owning Creation
Global environmental issues are affecting the creation we’re a part of. These environmental issues are critically important to the world at large, but are they relevant for Seventh-day Adventists?
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Photographic Highlights of KG Vaz's Funeral
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. Devoted SDA pastor, brilliant teacher, faithful Union Secretary, and distinguished college president, Pastor Vaz’ illustrious career was one marked by astute scholarship, commitment, stewardship, and integrity.
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A Day of Relaxation For Key Players in NCU’s Communication Symposium
After weeks of research, practice matches and rigorous workshops Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) debating team members enjoyed the fruits of their labour courtesy of the Department of Communication Studies at NCU. The team which placed second in the recently concluded UTECH Debating Championships was treated to a picnic at Little Rippon Adventure Park as well as a leisure tour of several communities on Wednesday, April 10. Not to be left out of the day’s happenings were a few students who played an integral role in the success of the Department of Communication Studies’ annual symposium held on April 8 and 9.
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NOW Launched in Central Jamaica Conference
The Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has embarked on an ambitious and extensive social media and technology evangelistic campaign entitled ‘NOW’ - an acronym which means ‘Network of Online Witnesses.’ The campaign takes advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices and high speed data services, coupled with the reach of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Lay Author’s Work Gains Top Industry Honors for Adventist Review
Two lay members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who published articles in Adventist Review magazine in 2012 each received one of the Christian world’s top publishing prizes: Awards of Excellence from the Associated Church Press, an industry group. A total of 11 awards were presented toAdventist Review and Adventist World writers, staff and designers for work published last year, during ACP’s convention awards banquet on April 4, 2013, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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In Remembrance: Andrew Kuntaraf used technology to bolster Adventist ministry, mission
Andrew Kuntaraf, an advocate of using technology to empower better and more effective ministry, died on April 6 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident near Charles Town, West Virginia. He was 33.
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Publishing work was central to early Adventist Church
In July of 1849, James White packed copies of “The Present Truth” into a borrowed carpetbag and trekked eight miles to the post office in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. He was taking the first steps toward what would become a global publishing ministry.
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National Security Minister frustrated in crime fight
As the fight against crime continues, Peter Bunting, the Minister of National Security has confessed that he is frustrated.
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