This Month's Issue

Love in Pictures is Alexis A. Goring’s third Christian novel about how faith and love intertwine. Goring, a member of Potomac Conference’s Restoration Praise Center in Bowie, Md., says she hopes readers will come away realizing, among other things, that “God is good. God is in control, and true love should always win.”

Just before school started, some 6,000 Seventh-day Adventist educators gathered in Chicago for the North American Division Teachers’ Convention.

Outside the windows of the small high-rise apartment, the predawn surroundings are pitch black. Miss Zhang* leans into her microphone and welcomes her online listeners to the live internet worship called Good Morning, China.

Susan P. Murray, a member of New Jersey Conference’s Rockaway church, started a journal documenting her feelings about her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s. She turned those entries into Losing Everything.

Every Sabbath businessman Elmer Herrera and his team transform a motel conference room into a worship space. Read about his hometown mission experience and others from around the globe in this issue.

The people soon told him that many of them kept the Sabbath. The reason, they said, was because of an “Adventist dog.”

“I realized that my son and daughter would have the same fate, and I don’t wish for my son to become like his father,” she says.

Setting aside a specific period of time to focus on mission is a wonderful thing that has the potential to draw you closer to Christ and reach many people with His love. If you can find a way to do it, take the leap! BUT...