Author Archive for: Sarah

Entries by Sarah Jarvis

Wood Green reopens for service 2021

Closed for nearly eighteen months, Wood Green Community Church separated from its sister church, Hackney, and reopened its doors on 14 August 2021. Wood Green then set its course for the rest of the year by starting as it meant to go on. On 4 September Wood Green held its annual Harvest Thanksgiving Service. This […]

The evidence is in the witnesses

by Ervin Herbert ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’ (1 Corinthians 15:55, NIV.) Some people belonging to a sceptical class frequently and emphatically assert that the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ didn’t occur. They go so far as to state that there is no evidence Jesus […]

The Return of BEAMS: ‘I Will Go’

by Divinia Reynolds The commission Jesus gave the Church in Matthew 28:18-20, starting with the immortal words: ‘Go ye therefore’ (KJV), echoes down through the ages. Yet some have found endeavouring to reach out to others a struggle, or felt the need to recalibrate how we carry out Jesus’ command as the era of the […]

Friday at Session

Friday 10 September Dr Beatrice Kastrati and Grace Walsh present the Possibility Ministries report ‘I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. And I know that you have little strength.’ (Rev. 3:8) Dr Daniel Duda began the day with a devotional theme, ‘God’s Vision for Your Life and for Your […]

Wednesday Session report

Extending God’s kingdom to every community 63rd Session of the North England Conference                       Dr Daniel Duda presentedthe devotional talk On Wednesday 8 September, 270 delegates met together at the Jury’s Inn, Hinckley, Leicestershire, to conduct the business of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the […]

Stanborough Press – the Lord continues to make a way!

It was William Ings in 1878 who started the publishing work in the United Kingdom.  As a colporteur (literature evangelist) It’s recorded that he’d publish 1,000 copies of denominational periodicals and tracts and circulate them among the ships in Southampton and then door-to-door in the city. As David Marshall notes, while Ings made ‘use of […]

A firm foundation for our youth

‘With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world!’ (Ellen G. White, Education, p. 271.) This well-known quote is often used as the basis for Adventist youth ministry, a work the Irish Mission takes […]

Vincentians face an added challenge

On 9 April, the St Vincent La Soufrière volcano erupted, covering most of the once-idyllic island with a thick grey blanket of ash (up to 42 centimetres in some places). In addition, the neighbouring islands of St Lucia and Barbados have also been affected, with ‘homes, crops and water supplies . . . also destroyed […]