News from the Allegheny East Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which includes churches and schools in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Students at Allegheny East Conference’s Baltimore Junior Academy in Baltimore were excited to view an international Bible on its way to the General Conference Session in Atlanta.
Some 1,500 people recently gathered at the Eglise Baptiste du Calvaire (the largest Haitian church in the Washington, D.C., area) last Sabbath, to honor the memories of their loved ones who died in the Haitian earthquake earlier this year.
Nearly 500 women, hailing from the Allegheny East and West, Chesapeake, Potomac, New Jersey, New York, Northeastern, and South Atlantic conferences, as well as from community churches, attended the Allegheny East Conference’s biennial Women’s Ministries conference in Atlantic City, N.J.
Clifford and Deniece Fields recently walked 130 miles to raise funds for Allegheny East Conference’s Pine Forge Academy in Pine Forge, Pa. Clifford, a member of the Class of 1979, conceived the idea for the fundraiser while walking.
At approximately 6 p.m. on June 26, a severe thunderstorm passed through Pine Forge, Pa., where Allegheny East Conference Camp Meeting had just convened for 10 days.
D. Paul Monteiro, a member of Allegheny East Conference’s Bladensburg (Md.) church, was recently named religious liaison in the Office of Public Liaison at the White House.
Under the theme “In Times Like These We Need a Savior,” the Columbia Union chapter of Adventist-laymen’s Services and Industries (ASI) recently met for their spring meetings. Held at Allegheny East Conference’s Liberty church in Baltimore, the meetings featured speakers G. Edward Reid, stewardship director for the North American Division and Robert Wallace, president and CEO of the Baltimore-based BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc.
For decades members of the Better Halfs Club have met in each other’s homes every first Sunday of the month to organize family activities, social functions, charitable outreach, and to provide spiritual support. Recently more than 100 people celebrated the club’s 40th anniversary at the Columbia Union Conference’s headquarters in Columbia, Md.