Columbia Union News

Wallace O. Coe, former president of the Columbia Union Conference from 1978-85, recently passed away at the age of 85.

More than 60 religious liberty leaders and representatives from the Allegheny East, Chesapeake, Pennsylvania, and Potomac conferences recently converged at the Columbia Union Conference office building in Columbia, Md., for a special event covering “Social Justice and the Worship of God.”

Conference Adventist Community Services (ACS) directors and the executive directors of several metro ministries gathered at the Columbia Union Conference headquarters recently.

Twenty-two professional and highly talented musicians from around the Columbia Union were honored and awarded recently during the first Guild of Adventist Musicians Music Awards Ceremony.

Recently 11 Pathfinder clubs from the Chesapeake, Mountain View, Ohio, and Pennsylvania conferences participated in the Columbia Union Pathfinder Bible Achievement.

Education, Columbia Union College (CUC), and finances were high on the agenda during last month’s Columbia Union Conference Spring Meetings.

School teachers and academy principals recently met for the Spring meetings of the Columbia Union School Administrators Council (CUSAC).

At its year-end meeting, the Columbia Union Conference Executive Committee celebrated the union’s centennial with the unveiling of a three-dimensional display that features photos and mementos that chronicle the union’s history.

Just before school started last month, 1,200 members from across the Columbia Union made their way to Front Royal, Va., for the first unionwide Pathfinder camporee in five years.

Beginning today, Seventh-day Adventists in the mid-Atlantic United States will embark on a yearlong centennial celebration with commemorative events, publications, and observances.