Stories & Commentaries

Since branching from the Cerritos Korean church in the Southern California Conference (SECC) in 2010, the Yorba Linda church has grown from a 40-member plant to a lively 250-member church.

“The Alhambra church is in a community that has become known as the ‘Gateway to America,’” said Donald Smith, the church’s senior pastor, “since many Asian immigrants, especially those from China and Taiwan, have moved into the area in recent years.

For the past 40 years, Alexander has lingered at the bedside of the sick and the dying, urging them to tell their stories, and helping in their search for meaning.

The missionary work of yester-year died with our grandparents. Their historic work was significant in seeding a global Adventist church, but as times have changed, we have rightly needed to evolve new strategies for this generation’s end-time outreach!

For more than eight years, Durham, a full-time music teacher at Forest Lake Education Center in Longwood, has given new life to worn out and broken down bicycles.

I am writing from Loma Linda, Calif. where many today are grieving the senseless loss of lives just a few miles away in San Bernardino. At some point I was just a quarter of a mile from where the shooting took place, and saw a number of police vehicles and news reporters in the vicinity. I had no idea the extent of the tragedy till later.

The Year-end Meeting of the North American Division (NAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church began Thursday October 29 with the theme “The Grand Collaboration.”

A few days ago I was on a prayer call with several of the prayer leaders in one of our conferences, and as is often the case, the president was on the call with us. It was an intense time of intercession, but when the president began to pray it caused an instant lump in all of our throats.