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After three years apart, more than 600 conference-, union-, and division-level leaders from across the North American Division (NAD) reunited in Greensboro, North Carolina, January 8-11 for the NAD’s 2023 “Replenish” Adventist Ministries Convention (AMC).

During Jan. 2-20, 2023, the visiting team for accreditation from the North American Division (NAD) Department of Education spent time with students and faculty at four of the nine schools in Guam-Micronesia Mission. One of 13 divisions for the Seventh-Day Adventist World Church, NAD operates a system of more than 900 early childhood centers,  elementary, and secondary schools and universities, including the ones in the Guam-Micronesia Mission.

In 2016, when Emil Peeler became senior pastor of the Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church, he asked God, “How can I best serve this community?” The answer: Capitol Hill Counseling and Resource Center. The answer: Capitol Hill Counseling and Resource Center. Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., its unassuming white brick exterior belies the transformational services offered within. This center has helped thousands battle mental health issues, realize their full potential, stop smoking, fight chronic diseases, adopt a healthier lifestyle, and much more.

Not long ago I attended a seminar during which the presenter asked, “What are you famous for?” I don’t remember details about the presentation, but I remember this question. Perhaps because it made me uncomfortable. And for some reason, that question has stuck in my mind. What am I known for?

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is stepping up emergency response efforts to assist victims of the powerful earthquake that struck southern Türkiye (Turkey) and north-west Syria just before sunrise on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.

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.

​​​​​​​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.

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.

Dr. Paulino Santos, chair of the Department of Kinesiology at Southwestern Adventist University (SWAU), threw a party at the end of his Adaptive Physical Activity class for his students and their participants. Young participants with disabilities from the surrounding churches and the community came to celebrate their accomplishments with their student therapists at the end of an eight-week lab in Santos’s Adaptive Physical Activity class.

The North Star serves a fixed compass in the night sky, guiding the pathway to the dawning of a new day. The history of African American Seventh-day Adventists is filled with numerous “north stars” who have contributed to the betterment of society for all people. Fortunately, this growing list continues into the twenty-first century.