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Mid-America Union Conference Executive Committee Appoints New Communication Director

During its regular spring meeting, the Mid-America Union Executive Committee voted to approve a recommendation by MAUC’s administrative team outlining a leadership transition for the union’s communication department. Following the vote, then-director Brenda Dickerson became the associate director, and then-associate director/digital media manager Hugh Davis became the new director, effective May 1, 2025. This transition of titles, initially proposed by Dickerson, serves as a model for succession planning and smooth leadership transitions in appointed positions.


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Business Students and Entrepreneurs Participate in Hyve Conference at Andrews University

Andrews University hosted the third annual North American Hyve International Conference from March 27–29, a gathering where students, entrepreneurs, ministry leaders and businesspeople networked with fellow innovators and pitched their ideas. Through various workshops and programs on campus, practicing entrepreneurs shared their experiences and advice on how to cultivate a strong business in a way that glorifies God.


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Christian Record Services Welcomes New Director of Development

Christian Record Services (CRS) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Tandi Perkins as the new Director of Development. Perkins brings a wealth of experience in the non-profit sector, having served with distinction for over five years as the director of development for the Alaska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.


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Nursing Students & Faculty Return to Fiji to Serve Their Mana Family

From March 22-30, 2025, a team of 19 students and five nursing faculty and staff from Pacific Union College provided physicals, well visits, and regular physician office and dental care to 311 patients in Mana, Fiji.


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Survivor of 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Shares Her Story With Pacific Union College Community

On January 12, 2023, nearly 60 years after surviving the Birmingham Church bombing that killed her older sister and two friends, Sarah Collins Rudolph told her story to Pacific Union College (PUC) students. Rudolph was the featured guest for a special Community on Thursday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


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Evangelist Jim Gilley Passes to His Rest

​​​​​​​James William “Jim” Gilley, a former vice president of the North American Division and president of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN), passed to his rest on Dec. 28, 2022, in Clermont, Florida, after a month-long battle with COVID-19 pneumonia and Legionnaires’ disease. He was 82.


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Breath of Life Speaker Leads Week of Prayer at Andrews University.

On January 23-27, 2023, Pastor Debleaire Snell, speaker/director of Breath of Life was invited to be the guest speaker for the Andrews University Week of Prayer. The theme was "Get Unrealistic," named after his most recent book about how faith frees us from life's limitations. Hundreds of students gathered daily to get a spiritual boost as the spring semester began.


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Rose Otis, First General Conference Women’s Ministries Director, First Woman to Serve as a North American Division Vice President, Passes to Her Rest

On Jan. 7, 2023, Rose Marie Otis, first General Conference Women’s Ministries director, and first woman to serve as a North American Division vice president, passed to her rest. Widely known as a public speaker and author, she was living in Frederick, Maryland, at the time of her death. Otis was 82.