Connecting Columbia Union Seventh-day Adventists

March 2017

Berkeley Poulsen displays a card he designed for an art class fundraiser to support the Restore a Child organization.

Middle school and high school art teacher, Nancy Rivera, challenged her students to design and sell linoleum block cards and donate the money to Restore a Child, a Christian charitable organization dedicated to helping orphans and underprivileged children throughout the world.

The annual Family Fun Festival sponsored by Washington Adventist University (WAU) on its campus in Takoma Park will be held this year on Sunday, April 9, from noon to 5 p.m. The festival is part of the University’s Alumni and Parents Weekend celebration.

Members gather at Know Your Rights” workshop and prayer event at the Washington (D.C.) Spanish church. Photo by Hector Perla

In recent months, newly proposed United States immigration policies have caused a wave of fear among many Seventh-day Adventist church members and their families across the Columbia Union Conference, making some too afraid to attend church. But some churches are working to help ease the fears.