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Erik Wangsness, president of WAH, speaks at the dedication of the new Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center. Photo by Eli Turner

Terry Forde, AHC president and CEO, said that the health needs of the community will evolve and change in the decades ahead. “We must acknowledge that the mission of extending God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing will be needed” until Christ’s return.

Kettering Medical Center Chaplain Elliott Smith speaks at a prayer vigil at the hospital.

A second mass shooting in less than a year has directly impacted the Columbia Union Conference territory. Among the nine killed in a nightclub in downtown Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning was Nicholas Cumer, 25, a trainer interning with Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, an organization that serves patients in several of Kettering Adventist HealthCare’s (KAHC) facilities.

"It is God who works, who transforms the heart," said Pastor Tim Madding at Columbia Union Conference's Transformational Evangelism Conference. "We just want to not make it difficult and help them make their next step."

Brian Tagalog photographed Pastor Stephen Lee at Transformational Evangelism.

Are Revelation Seminars outdated? Do we need to totally change our worship styles? What does it really mean to be a disciple? Must we use traditional forms of evangelism to be effective? Some 160 pastors recently gathered at the Transformational Evangelism conference to tackle these questions.