Story by V. Michelle Bernard
Columbia Union News
Story by Donna Bigler
Choral performances by high school students from high school schools will be featured at the 2017 Choral Festival that is being hosted by Washington Adventist University (WAU) from February 8-11. Students from seven academies in the Columbia Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will participate in the festival. They will stay on campus, take master classes, rehearse and offer three concerts that will be open to the public.
The concerts will be held:
Story by V. Michelle Bernard / Photos by Jorge Pillco
More than 7,700 Columbia Union Conference members recently attended Caravan of Training meetings at 24 sites across the Columbia Union territories.
Story by Shelley Nolan Freesland
The Adventist World Radio (AWR) Board of Directors has elected Duane McKey as the new president of Adventist World Radio, replacing Dowell Chow, who has served as president for the past six years. McKey has been director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries at the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as well as assistant to Ted Wilson, the president of the denomination, for Total Member Involvement since 2015. Prior to that, he was vice president of the Southwestern Union Conference in Texas, USA, and president of the Arizona Conference.
Story by Debra McKinney Banks
For many years, the conference Adventist Book Center (ABC) was the place to get your “veggie meat.” Traditionally, located in the basement or backroom of a conference office building, church, or on an academy campus, and mostly geared to Adventist customers, the ABC of 20+ years ago has had to evolve to stay alive. Unfortunately, not all of them have survived.