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‘Pentaevangelism’ Culminates in 135 Baptisms

Sixty-four people, Hispanic and non-Hispanic, celebrate baptism during the Hispanic Camp Meeting

Story by Heidi Shoemaker

Pentaevangelism, … what is that?” asks Peter Simpson, Hispanic Ministries coordinator for the Ohio Conference. “We’ve done many things, but nothing like this.”

‘Pentaevangelism’ (Pentaevangelismo) is the most recent evangelism program designed by Simpson and the Hispanic Ministries Department. Penta (five) refers to the five principal components of evangelism: prayer (oración); preaching (predicación); baptizing (conversión); producing or multiplying (multiplación); and planting (plantación).

Former New England Youth Ensemble Members Make an Impact

The New England Youth Ensemble (NEYE) started with a group of young musicians that gave its first performance at the local Kiwanis club in Worcester, Mass.

Story by Alita Byrd

The Legacy Lives On

Photos courtesy Washington Adventist University

Story by Alita Byrd

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Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse: Beyond the Ensemble

Viriginia-Gene and Harvey Rittenhouse are pictured at Victoria Falls.

Story by Alita Byrd

In the autumn of 1969, Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse (pictured in a family portrait from the 1940s)—already an accomplished and internationally-known violin and piano soloist and composer—invited four little kids to play music in her living room. Little did they know, this was the beginning of the New England Youth Ensemble (NEYE).

Retraite Spirituelle pour les Estudiants Leaders

Mountain View Conference's Parkersburg Adventist Academy student Alaina Vill and Pennsylvania Conference's Blue Mountain Academy student Summer Dekle attend SALT.

Histoire par V. Michelle Bernard et Monica Zill

Cet automne, les leaders étudiants des académies (junior et senior) de l’Union de Columbia se sont réunis à Edgewater, dans le Maryland, avec les dirigeants des académies, pour la fin de semaine annuelle de Formation sur le Leadership Spirituel Académique (SALT).

Ministerios Multilingües Establece Metas para el 2020

Lizzy Colindres celebra su bautismo con su tía Bessy Colindres, quien la llevó por primera vez a la planta de la iglesia New Life de la Conferencia de Allegheny West.

Historia de V. Michelle Bernard

Durante la reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Uni.n de Columbia de septiembre, Rubén Ramos, vicepresidente de Ministerios Multilingües, reiteró los objetivos del departamento para el 2016-2021 de alentar a cada miembro a compartir el Evangelio.

More Than a List

Editorial by Rob Vandeman

The homiletics professor was not impressed with my sermon outline based on biblical genealogies. “Don’t preach from the lists!” he had scrawled across the top of my paper. Perhaps he was correct, but, then again, maybe not.

Archaeologists Uncover Clues About Women in Early Christianity

Story by Carina O. Prestes / Photos by Melvin Donadelle Jr., Carina O. Prestes and Courtesy of San Miceli Excavations

Sligo’s Ministry Lifts Broken Hearts

Story by Tiffany Doss

A plethora of thoughts swarmed around in her head as she entered the church for the first time after her husband’s funeral. Charlotte Conway and her husband, Bob, had been members of Potomac Conference's Sligo church in Takoma Park, Md., for 37 years—but now things were different.

The familiar sense of belonging she embraced every time she walked into the massive edifice to worship was replaced with uncomfortable feelings of loneliness and uncertainty. Conway remembers sitting on “their pew” in “their spot” with tears flowing. Should she stay, or should she go home? The grief was overwhelming.