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AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
By Sandy Hodgson . . . Whenever someone in our family has an “I can’t do this” approach to something, whether a physical or mental task or even just playing a game, my daughter’s response to our lamentations is usually, “Not with that attitude!”
One of my favorite books to read with my students is Hatchet by Gary Paulsen about a young boy stranded in the wilderness who must fend for himself. He quickly learns that the first rule of survival is not feeling sorry for yourself. But I love a good pity party! I also know it gets me nowhere. It’s my “not with that attitude” moment and I, embarrassingly, can have a few too many.
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GUIDELINES FOR OPENING RMC SCHOOLS
Denver, Colorado . . . Guidelines for safe reopening of schools for 2020–2021 school year were released June 17 by a special ad hoc committee established by the Rocky Mountain Conference.
Working closely with the CDC, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico health departments, and Centura Health, these guidelines were designed to keep every student, teacher, and parent safe as in-person instruction resumes.
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ADVENTIST CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA ISSUES RESPONSE TO FRINGE GROUP NEWSPAPER AD MENTIONING CHURCH
Columbia, Maryland . . .On June 21, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division issued the following statement after a full-page advertisement was published by a fringe organization on the same day in the Nashville Tennessean, a Gannett-owned newspaper.
“The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is deeply disturbed by the two hurtful ads recently published in the Nashville Tennessean.
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SHORT ARMS AND DULL EARS – COMMENTARY
By Doug Inglish . . . I have always had trouble finding the proper fit in long sleeved shirts, owing to arms that are unusually long relative to my stature. But an odd benefit of this configuration has been the ability to check the height of ceilings. Standard residential height is eight feet, and while rarely called on to use this specific skill, all I ever had to do to check that measurement was reach up. If my fingertips barely grazed the ceiling, it was eight feet exactly.
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FROM MONO-ETHNIC TO MULTI-ETHNIC: ONE CHURCH’S JOURNEY
By Mike Maldonado — Colorado Springs, Colorado … It has been said that a church should reflect the demographic of the community it is in. If a community is mainly Caucasian, then it is no fault of the church if its members are mostly Caucasian. But if a church is in a racially diverse community and the demographic is mainly Caucasian then there is work to be done. That is the situation we (my wife and I) found ourselves in eleven years ago when we first arrived in Colorado Springs to pastor Central church. Colorado Springs is a diverse community due to the large military presence, numerous universities and colleges, a booming economy, and a red-hot housing market.
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06.21.2004 - REFLECTION
By Rajmund Dabrowski ... Time flies and detailed memory fades.* It was on June 21, 2004 when a procedure at the Holy Cross Hospital put a stop to a developing life challenge with prostate cancer. This exact date was scribbled on a receipt copy that I put into a valuables envelope before being wheeled out and delivered into the hands of two physicians who administered the implantation of small radio-active seeds around the prostate, known as brachytherapy.
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FIRE DAMAGES COLORADO'S BRIGHTON CHURCH By Jon Roberts — Brighton, Colorado . . . Within minutes of its outset, the Brighton Fire Rescue District responded to a fire at the Brighton church which engulfed its social annex shortly after 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 21.
Firefighters were on the scene within six minutes of the initial call. When they arrived, the exterior of the annex side of the church was engulfed in flames and fire had spread to the attic. The initial responding crew placed a call for assistance from three additional units within Brighton Fire Rescue District, and two units from South Adams County Fire Department.
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COLORADO SPRINGS HONOR CONNIE COATES By Michelle Velbis – Colorado Springs, Colorado . . . School secretary, cook, event planner, pathfinder leader, sabbath school leader, and janitor – a small army of volunteers? No, all of these positions and more were held by one person, Connie Coates.
Coates, who has been in Colorado Springs since 2001, will be moving to New Mexico to be closer to family.
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CENTURA-LITTLETON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL ASSOCIATES MARK JUNETEENTH IN HEALING GARDEN Littleton, Colorado … Friday on Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the US, a group of our leaders and associates at Centura-Littleton Adventist Hospital gathered to reflect on the meaning of the day amid these difficult times.
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COMMENTARY - GAVRILO PRINCIP DID NOT START WORLD WAR I
By Joel Reyes — I keep hearing people, including journalists, refer to the riots that are literally consuming our country as the “George Floyd” riots. There are many things wrong with this term and its implications. We would almost have to assume that things were well in our country until looters poured out into the streets after the murder of George Floyd. |
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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PIONEERS AND THEIR PROTEST AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM
By Kevin M. Burton . . .The second advent movement was inseparable from the abolitionist call for the immediate and total destruction of slavery and demand for equal rights for the oppressed. From the rise of the Millerite movement in the early 1830s through the end of the Civil War, adventists of all varieties used the tactic of moral suasion to warn pro-slavery Americans that God would soon return and judge them if they did not immediately repent and reform. In this manner, they made protest against racial injustice inseparable from their adventist faith. |
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