Northern News

Stories by Laurie Trujillo and Ken Miller

This Week's Contributors:

Janice Nelson

Susie Kim

Recently three of our departments hosted weekend events to provide resources to local ministry leaders.  

The Women’s Ministries Department hosted a leadership workshop to spiritually strengthen and help reconnect women in ministry. This event offered practical tools and techniques to revive ministries and connect volunteers after two difficult years of pandemic restrictions.  

Angela Fusilier, director of women’s ministries, said, “The web of connection activity highlighted the importance and value of networking and pooling resources. Judging from the feedback of our fifty women leaders, the weekend was a great success.”  

At Leoni Meadows, youth director Eddie Henrich with children and family ministry director Barry van Iderstein, led the Pathfinder and Adventurer Leadership Convention.  

According to van Iderstein, "Our main theme and purpose was making sure our Pathfinder, and Adventurer groups are meeting the spiritual needs of our children through club ministries. Each event presenter was specifically chosen to support, inspire, and equip leaders to advance the spiritual growth of children.” 

On Sabbath, September 12 the North Highlands Spanish group became a church!

Pastor Jaime Calvo said, “Achieving church status on Sabbath, is a testament to our members’ dedication, time, and effort to God's cause. He has truly blessed us.” 

In 2009, Sacramento Spanish planted the group in Fair Oaks and by 2016 the group became the North Highlands Spanish Company.

It has grown over the years by being community-relevant. Members have been active with in-home visitations, VBS, health, and evangelism seminars. 

Member, Guillermo Arevalo said, “It is an overwhelming experience to become a church after years of work growing our membership."

SAA Students Help Feed Community

This summer students from Sacramento Academy engaged their calling to service at the Carmichael Adventist Community Services (CACS) food pantry.

According to Susie Kim, assistant director of CACS, “These mission-minded youth regularly came to the food pantry each week to help bag produce, stock shelves, load cars, and in general keep the food pantry going strong.”   

Kim concluded, “SAA is dedicated to teaching students about serving their community. As a result, students often put in more than 200 hours each year. Thanks to our volunteers, CACS can distribute food to more than 250 families each week and is a blessing to our community.”  

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