Columbia Union News

Jose Cortes Jr., an associate ministerial director of the North American Division, and Celeste Ryan Blyden, a vice president at the Columbia Union Conference, led worshippers in a prayer of commitment during the August 19 joint worship service in Charlottesville, Va. (Read the entire prayer here.)

In the aftermath of a violent Charlottesville attack, Adventists gathered to worship, pray, comfort the grieving and show compassion.

Today Nathaniel Drew, pastor of Allegheny West Conference’s Bethany church in Charlottesville, Va., and the Calvary church in Gordonsville, Va., attended the memorial service for Heather Heyer, the woman killed last Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. 

William T. Cox Sr., President of the Allegheny West Conference; William Miller, President of the Potomac Conference; and Dave Weigley, President of the Columbia Union Conference, release the following joint statement regarding the unrest in Charlottesville, Va.

“Every child learns differently,” says Evelyn Sullivan, director for Early Childhood Education and Care and Pre-K at the Columbia Union Conference. This week 45 educators from around the Columbia Union gathered at union headquarters in Columbia, Md., to learn more about differentiated instruction.

The Columbia Union Conference Office of Education recently recognized juniors and seniors at each of the union’s eight academies.

Seeking ways to engage younger members, the Visitor staff recently created a Snapchat filter that will be available at camp meetings in the Columbia Union Conference.

Susan Newman, a member of the Living Word church in Glen Burnie, Md., sought a new way for her congregation to help the homeless population in the community, and, as a result, founded EMBRACE Street Smart Ministry.