June 12, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 16

GENERAL COMMENTS
This is an outstanding issue! When you finish reading it, give it to a friend.

COVER STORY
Against the Wind by Lillian R. Guild
Christine was born in India and became an Adventist when she married and moved to Singapore. Not content to keep to herself the joys she'd found in Jesus, she became the catalyst for outreach efforts in her hometown in India. Now retired and living in Southern California, she continues to give Bible studies and teaches a Sabbath school class.

ARTICLES
To Be Like Trees by Norman L. Mitchell

'Who is your neighbor?'- Presented by Pastor Ann Roda of New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church. Entire Sermon available for download on iTunes. Search: New Hope Adventist Church.

• A $2 million gift from a single donor goes for global mission
• Australian dieticians give the thumbs up to Sanitarium’s on-the-go breakfast products
• President’s first visit to Fiji deals with health and education issues
• Celebrations are under way for the 100th anniversary of Adventists arriving in PNG
• Women delegates encouraged to be bold and to try and change things for the better.

Editor's Note: Today we're introducing a new series on the blog, a series about the challenges of raising loving, spiritually-aware kids from Michael Bennie who blogs about his experiences parenting his three young daughters (a 5-yr-old and 3-yr-old twins).

ANN reports:

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Northern Asia held their mid-year Executive Committee meeting in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea last month, the first such meeting there since the country closed its borders in 1953.

God is Not

God is not your grandfather

who looks a little like Santa Claus,

the white beard who never-the-less

knows when you have been naughty or nice.

God is not an over-stuffed teddy bear

good for hugs when you weep

for all that your hands have broken.

Nor is he Thor, sitting on peak of your roof

thunderbolt ready, waiting

for you to mow your lawn on Sabbath.

Nor is he a she—an earth mother

skipping along the road dispensing

cabbages and oranges from her

cornucopia over-flowing

with all things great and small.

Proclaiming God's Grace is the theme for the 2010 General Conference session in Atlanta, Georgia.

We Have This Hope. Now is the Time. Almost Home. Transformed in Christ.

• PNG Adventist Aviation Service rated best operator,
• The educational arm of the Adventist Church is advocating peace, New boarding school for Indigenous people,
• The new Avondale Retirement Village in Cooranbong has been opened,
• Lakeside church member shaved his head for cancer.

• A 90 year old man goes on his 24th archaeological dig,
• $300,000 has been allocated to build churches in developing countries,

ANN's Ground Seven podcast includes a gospel rap interview and an interview with Ben Carson.

• 40 volunteers from Ipswich QLD, backyard blitz a neighbourhood home,
• Cook Island Prime Minister attends evangelistic campaign,
• Newcastle University students promote Adventism at orientation week, ADRA launches new fundraising campaign,
• Western Australian volunteers go back to Zambia to build a school,
• Perth couple open a Café to share their faith,