Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Edison Valencia delighted the audience at the Faculty Lyceum on Sunday, April 14, 2013. Music lovers convened at the university’s Main Campus in Mandeville to witness Mr. Valencia’s mastery of the piano. Here is a photographic highlight of the event.
Photographic Highlights- Edison Valencia Entertains at Faculty Lyceum
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Postmodernism in the Classroom
When most Christians raise concerns about the state of public education, they tend to focus on practices that directly conflict with biblical values. Graphic sex education, moral relativism, lax discipline policies, and open hostility to Christianity are some of the most commonly cited reasons for removing children from public schools.
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Snacking…The Healthy Way
A snack is a small amount of food intended to be a 'filler' in between meals to prevent hunger. Those who may need to eat snacks to get all the nutrients and energy needed to be healthy include children, older adults, busy teenagers, persons with diabetes on insulin, persons with loss of appetite (not eating enough food at mealtimes) - maybe as a result of illness, such as cancer or cancer treatment or kidney disease, persons with unintentional weight loss because of the ageing process, persons who have lost a loved one, or persons who are stressed.
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North America: Treasurer says North American tithe up 1%, 4.4% other regions
In 1899, the fledgling Seventh-day Adventist Church had only $55.33 in a bank account here in Battle Creek. Two years later, the financial landscape had worsened. The church was some $40,000 in debt. The fiscal crisis would spur early Adventists to reorganize the church’s priorities at the turn of the century.
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Walking the Newsbeat
I sat in my office overlooking the Rockefeller Plaza ice rink and was overcome with a mixture of anxiety and relief. Anxiety, because I had made the decision to leave my job at NBC News without any other prospects in sight; relief, in that the daily grind chronicling the latest devastation had reached its end.
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K.G. Vaz Hailed as a Learned and Humble Servant of God
Governor General of Jamaica, Sir Patrick Allen has described Pastor Kenneth Vaz as a learned and humble Servant of God during a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of the late former president of West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University – NCU) held at the University’s Gymnatorium in Mandeville on Thursdays, April 11, 2013.
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At Battle Creek, afternoon presentations highlight lessons from history
In the end, it seemed fitting that an archivist—in this case, David Trim of the Seventh-day Adventist world church—would encapsulate two days of presentations reflecting on the 150 years since the denomination's formal organization.
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U.S. court gives green light for Adventist’s workplace discrimination trial
A Seventh-day Adventist school bus driver in the U.S. state of Louisiana has won the right from a federal appeals court to proceed with a workplace discrimination case over his observance of Sabbath.
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Newly released footage shows family of imprisoned pastor in Togo
A new video featuring the family of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor imprisoned in Togo was published on YouTube by the church’s world headquarters last week, the latest step effort to obtain signatures petitioning the government for his release.
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Puerto Rico: Community outreach keeps homeless warm and fed
One thought drove Cinthia Nuñez to make a difference: To collect blankets for more than 500 homeless people.
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Venezuela: Church mourns tragic death of employee
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Venezuela is mourning the tragic death one of its auditors this week. Rodny Jose Emmons Escobar was killed during an apparent robbery the night of April 10 at the Southeast Venezuela Conference office in Puerto Ordaz. He was 33.
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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 Commended For Participation in JCF’s Volunteer Chaplaincy Programme
THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), which has often faced criticism from members of the public and some of those within its ranks about the effectiveness of its psychological intervention programmes, has recently increased its corps of volunteer chaplains to 120.
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KG Vaz hailed as a learned and humble servant of God
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Governor General of Jamaica Sir Patrick Allen hailed Pastor Kenneth Vaz as a learned and humble servant of God during a service of thanksgiving for the life of the late former president of West Indies College (now Northern Caribbean University (NCU) held at the University's Gymnatorium in Mandeville on Thursday, April 11.
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Alex Bryan, Walla Walla Church Pastor, to Lead Kettering College of Medical Arts
Alex Bryan, senior pastor at the Walla Walla University Church, has been named president of Kettering College of Medical Arts in Kettering, Ohio. Bryan will become the sixth president in the college’s 45-year history. The college serves as the educational component of Kettering Medical Center, conducting instruction in the arts, sciences and allied health professions. Kettering is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s health system.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU Connect at Emancipation Park in Kingston City
A team from Northern Caribbean University (NCU) travelled to Emancipation Park in Kingston City for the second in a series dubbed NCU Connect 2013 on April 18. Visitors to the exhibitions mounted at Emancipation Park in New Kingston learnt about the wide variety of programmes offered by the university and benefited from free health checks. They also stood the chance of winning tuition scholarships and discounts. NCU FM was on site and carried a live outside broadcast of the day’s activities.
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Photographic Highlights of President's Social
Dr. Trevor Gardner, President of Northern Caribbean University (NCU), feted some of the over 5000 students on the NCU Mandeville campus at the President’s Social on April 16, 2013 in NCU’s gymnatorium.
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Photographic Highlights of Less Stress Day Spring 2013
The end of the semester is fast approaching and final exams are just around the corner. You find yourself having numerous anxiety attacks; you are at often times confused. Your room that is always tidy is now a messy cluster of things and you have no idea if you will be able to complete that production in time for the due date because you haven’t even started.
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Educate people about having kids
Head of the Behavioural and Social Sciences Department at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) and former president of the Guidance Counsellors Association of Jamaica, Dr Grace Kelly, said before any restriction is made on the number of children individuals are allowed to have, persons should be comprehensively educated on the implications such actions could have on them.
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Sqooshkappers
Sqooshkappers are now as popular as ever. I know of at least one individual who has preached them through and argued them out in college classrooms. I may or may not have ever seen a sqooshkapper. This is because their particular form, substance, texture, or otherwise depend on nothing beyond some immediate logical or theoretical end, some pressing academic or sermonic purpose. Nevertheless, people who have seen and not seen them may still be willing to attest their reality.
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