Over the past 24 months, an estimated 850 million brochures inviting people to study the Bible have been handed out worldwide as part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Sow 1 Billion program.
Less than 10 feet from the Meal Ticket booth in the foyer of America's Center, three people stand: two young, one old, each with official guest badges hanging from their necks.
Capping 10 days of meetings in which, as public affairs director Dr. John Graz said, "St. Louis was the center of the world for 25 million Seventh-day Adventists," delegates to the movement's 58th General Conference Session heard words of thanks from a ci
Maybe it was because she was Muslim or still smoking, or maybe it was because she had two children and she wasn't married, but the pastor did not want to baptize Fatiha Bernazza.
"If music be the food of love, play on...." The words of Shakespeare re-echoed in my mind as delegates discussed the Church Manual revisions on music.
Baptism is an important "rite of passage" for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, so perhaps it is not surprising the proposal of the Church Manual Committee for an alternative set of baptismal vows engendered some hot debate.