The Adventist Book Centre has been supporting a drive to send books to the Solomons to help raise literacy there.  Our dedicated customers have donated about $1,000 worth of books already.   We’re currently trying to put together class sets of the Jesus Calling Bible Storybook so that classes can read and improve their English…

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Recently, I stumbled across Nabeel Qureshi’s story on Youtube.  While I didn’t know it at the time, Nabeel’s story would become central to a sermon I was preparing on generosity. Initially, while contemplating the sermon topic, I drew a blank.  I doodled a few ideas on my paper and played with a couple of phrases,…

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Conference Administration have been investigating the possible redevelopment of the Conference Office site following the rezoning of the Epping business precinct by the State Government in March 2014. After further careful consideration and deliberation, the Executive Committee has called a Special Constituency Meeting for Sunday 6 September, 2015 to be held at Mountain View Adventist…

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Click here to read the full brochure Thank you to everyone who recently took part in our Church Member Consultations to discuss the potential redevelopment of the Conference office in order to better fund our mission. For those who were not able to attend, this brochure is designed to capture the discussions. By way of…

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Open Heart International Appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday 26 July. Open Heart International featured on 60 Minutes Sunday 26 July with a story on the May trip to Fiji with the team led by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Ian Nicholson. The volunteers on the life-saving project did more than 36 surgeries – 24 of the…

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Can you imagine what it would be like to have a toothache and have no relief? Atioifi SDA Hospital does not have a dental clinic or a dental chair or dental instruments.  A dentist is available and the Solomon Islands government has agreed to pay his wages, but there are no dental facilities. Peggy Kendal,…

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Pendle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church was blessed by Suzanne (Greater Sydney Conference Safe Places Coordinator) on Sabbath 4 July 2015. Suzanne shared a powerful message with us during church, speaking the Word and encouraging us to be thankful for one another, not to take each other for granted but most importantly not to keep our…

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“We want to affirm our women in ministry,” said Pastor Glenn Townend, incoming president of the South Pacific Division, at a Friday morning meeting of the SPD delegates at the 60th General Conference Session. “We also need to think about how to move forward. This includes how we speak to those who don’t understand the…

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Delegates turned down a motion that would have allowed each division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to decide for itself whether to ordain women to the gospel ministry in its territory. By a margin of 1381-977, with five abstentions, delegates by secret ballot ended a five-year process characterised by vigorous and sometimes acrimonious debate. General…

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Not long before my grandfather died he said something that, on reflection, was almost unbelievable. My grandfather Norm Overend lived a good, honest but sometimes quite hard life. He certainly didn’t pursue tertiary studies. In fact I don’t think he even went to high school. He lived through the tough Depression years and two world…

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