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.
Members of the Allegheny East Conference (AEC) recently celebrated the official organization of the Filipino American Oxon Hill (Md.) church. What began in 2011 as a church plant with just four members has now grown to more than 100 members.
Gracie Torres, a 14-year-old member from the Rehoboth Spanish church in Reading, Pa., recently starred in a commercial aired on local TV, raising funds for a women’s and children’s shelter.
Pine Forge Academy has a special historical heritage. The school is nestled in a rustic valley that holds some of America's most intriguing colonial history and this country's most poignant folklore.
With the newly renovated Dorcas building, the Community Services Department at Allegheny East Conference's Calvary church in Newport News, Va., recently reinstituted their community grocery giveaway.
During a recent Sabbath jubilee service, the Pine Forge (Pa.) church celebrated its 75th anniversary. Witnessed by members, guests and supporters, Pete Palmer, Allegheny East Conference (AEC) president, and his wife, Dahlia, also attended.
The Pine Forge Academy (PFA) choir recently premiered their long-awaited live musical produc- tion, This Is My Black, at the Flagship Theater in Pottstown, Pa.
Jayné Johnson, first lady of the Metropolitan church in Plainfield, N.J., was recently appointed as the director of the new Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in the New Jersey governor’s office. “I’m honored to carry out this purpose-driven work and grateful for the support of my family and church community,” says Johnson.
Years ago, I started college in Alabama. The degree I chose forced me to transfer to a sister school in California for nine months. An East Coast native, I told God that I would never end up this far away from home again. As they say, man plans, and God laughs.
Because we are in a war against the devil, we need to be “armed to the teeth.” The Bible is our weapons store, our armory where we may arm ourselves for the struggle.