January 1, 2023
Vol. 9 Issue 1
What's your stewardship resolution for 2023?
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-Epictetus
Balancing Budgets with Assets - How can we help the poor in our community?
Like you, I’ve attended my fair share of classes and read books about financial management and how to live on a budget. If people could just tell the difference between needs and wants, they advise, then we could balance our budgets.
 
Adventist Ministries Convention
The 2023 Adventist Ministries Convention invites you to Greensboro, North Carolina (Jan 8-11) for a time of inspiration, celebration, training, and growing as a ministry director. The Adventist Ministries Convention is a premier event held for church leadership twice every five years. Speakers to include Dr. Carlton Byrd and Dr. Steve Case!

This Quarter's Special Offerings
Religious Liberty - January 14
Did you know that just 150 years ago being a Seventh-day Adventist in the United States could be a risky business? Take the case of Pastor James Scoles from Springdale, Arkansas. He volunteered to help finish painting his congregation's newly built church and decided to...
Adventist Television Ministries Evangelism - February 11
One pastor recalls the day a woman came to church with her family in tow all because of a TV media ministry. Though he studied with her, she had apparently viewed our programming for so long that there was hardly anything left to tell her. 
World Budget: Adventist World Radio - March 11
Just over a year ago, hardened assassins from the New People’s Army in Mindoro, Philippines, laid down their guns and chose a new life—and baptism—after listening to Adventist World Radio and studying with local Adventist pastors.
What We're Reading (Resource links)
Mending Ministers Edited by Ivan Williams, Petr Cincala, and Rene Drumm
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