Connecting Columbia Union Seventh-day Adventists

February 2026

Faculty and Staff Empowered by Support Initiative, Shenandoah Valley Academy, Adult Dream Manager, Stephanie Powell, Becky Patrick

Some say going back to school is like returning to war. Maybe that’s too strong of a description— but is it? Teachers battle within the context of the Great Controversy, the conflict between good and evil playing out each day in the lives of students and their families, and in the professional and personal lives of faculty, staff and administrators.

So Much With So Little, Lake Nelson Adventist Academy, New Jersey Conference,

“And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, ‘Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had’” (Luke 21:1–4, NKJV).